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Coalitions and Consequences: Learnership and Leadership in India, 1948–2008

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The Indian Economy Sixty Years After Independence

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This essay attempts to explore a missing aspect of the large literature that has grown up around coalition governments in India and then to include that aspect in a discussion of the consequences of coalition governments. Are they good or bad for economic development, social change and honest, effective government? Do they work better at the state level rather than the national?

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  1. Australia South Asia Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia

    Raghbendra Jha (Professor and Executive Director) (Professor and Executive Director)

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Jeffrey, R. (2008). Coalitions and Consequences: Learnership and Leadership in India, 1948–2008. In: Jha, R. (eds) The Indian Economy Sixty Years After Independence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228337_2

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