Do Party Systems Count?

By Pradeep Chhibber, Irfan Nooruddin. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• ''Capture'' of anti-poverty programs: An analysis of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program in India § (2009, background): “Chhibber and Nooruddin (2004) argue that politicians who work through political parties engaged in two party competition are more likely to provide public goods than those who have to make decisions within the context of multi-party environment.”
• The disadvantaged incumbents: estimating incumbency effects in Indian state legislatures (2005, methodology): “However, Chhibber and Nooruddin (2004) argue that the e ff ective number of parties could positively a ff ect the incumbency e ff ect as with more parties in a plurality electoral system such as in India incumbents have to get smaller percentage of votes to win.”
• Does delegation of fiscal policy to an independent agency make a difference? Evidence from intergovernmental transfers in India (2007, methodology): “24 Chhibber and Nooruddin (2004) calculate the effective number of parties competing in a state using a widely used measure in the political science literature first advocated by Laakso and Taagepera (1979): effective number of parties = 1/∑(seatsi) , where seatsi is the share of seats won in the st”
• Economic growth and ethnic violence: An empirical investigation of Hindu—Muslim riots in India (2010, methodology): “This measure is taken from Chhibber & Nooruddin (2004).”
• Traditional Governance, Citizen Engagement, and Local Public Goods: Evidence from Mexico (2014, background): “Chhibber and Nooruddin (2004) found that Indian states where patterns of electoral competition are stiffer, in the sense that the incumbent faces strong contestation from one single challenger, are more likely to provide public goods.”