Can Mandated Political Representation Increase Policy Influence for Disadvantaged Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India

By Rohini Pande. 2003

653 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Natural Language Processing, Economics & Operations Research

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In Gender Studies

1. Timothy J. Besley
2. Esther Duflo
3. Ebonya L. Washington
4. V. Rao
5. Abhijit Banerjee
6. Tim Besley
7. Simon Chauchard
8. Marianne Bertrand

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Guido Tabellini
2. Timothy J. Besley
3. Esther Duflo
4. Rohini Pande
5. Philip E. Keefer
6. Stuti Khemani
7. V. Rao
8. Ebonya L. Washington

In Natural Language Processing

1. Timothy J. Besley
2. Guido Tabellini
3. V. Rao
4. Tim Besley
5. Ebonya L. Washington
6. Jun Zhang
7. Yuan Gao
8. Elizabeth U. Cascio

In Economics & Operations Research

1. Timothy J. Besley
2. Guido Tabellini
3. Esther Duflo
4. V. Rao
5. Tim Besley
6. Ebonya L. Washington
7. Ashwin Deshpande
8. Jun Zhang

Citations in the corpus

• Re-imagining Algorithmic Fairness in India and Beyond (2021, background): “studies have pointed to the successful redistribution of resources towards oppressed sub-groups, through reservations [43, 68, 152].”
• Term limits and rotation of Chinese governors: do they matter to economic growth? (2008, methodology): “Here, however, we add a provincial dummy as well to control for the more accurate fixed effect (a similar method is used in Pande 2003, and in Besley et al. 2005).”
• Political Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India (2005, positive): “The citizen-candidate approach has been applied to study the effect of political reservation by Pande (2003) and Chattopadhyay and Duflo (2004).”
• Collective Action and Community Development: Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural India (2013, background): “communal inequities are endemic even in relatively (ethnically) homogenous communities, and these inequities are often reflected in public goods choices (Pande 2003; Chattopadhyay and Duflo 2004; Hoff and Pandey 2006) We would expect, therefore, that any successful effort to promote cooperation by S”
• THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC GOOD PROVISION: EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (2004, background): “…reservation suggests that political reservation for a group leads to a higher incidence of policies preferred by and/or targeted towards that group (see Pande (2003) for state-level evidence in the case of SC/ST, and Chattopadhyay and Du o (2003) for village-level evidence in the case of women).”
• Does Access to Formal Agricultural Credit Depend on Caste (2013, neutral): “In the second case, government policy might also attempt to alleviate historical disadvantage through affirmative action such as political reservation (Pande 2003; Prakash & Chin 2011), or quotas in government educational institutions (Bertrand et al.”
• Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India (2013, positive): “Using state-level variation in India over four decades, Pande (2003) identifies how the mandated reservations of legislative positions for minority members of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) individuals increased the redistribution of resources towards these groups, demonstrating enhanced…”
• Estimating Local Fiscal Multipliers (2016, neutral): “In a paper looking at political representation in India, Pande (2003) uses the di¤erence between annual changes in minorities population shares and their xed statutory shares as determined by the previous Census. population levels due to Census revisions and subsequent federal spending at the county”
• Local Favoritism in At-Large Proportional Representation Systems (2016, neutral): “, gender (Chattopadhyay and Duflo, 2004), and ethnicity (Pande, 2003), matter for (32)Voters’ hometown bias might also have a less instrumental explanation.”