By Milan Vaishnav
In India, the world’s biggest democracy, the symbiotic courting among crime and politics increases complicated questions. for example, how can unfastened and reasonable democratic approaches exist along rampant illegal activity? Why do political events recruit applicants with reputations for wrongdoing? Why are one-third of country and nationwide legislators elected—and usually re-elected—in spite of felony fees pending opposed to them? during this eye-opening research, political scientist Milan Vaishnav mines a wealthy array of assets, together with fieldwork on political campaigns and interviews with applicants, social gathering employees, and electorate, huge surveys, and an unique database on politicians’ backgrounds to supply the 1st finished examine of a topic that has implications for the research of democracy either inside and past India’s borders.
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Foreign Service Institute, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, New York University, Princeton University, University of Southern California, University of Pennsylvania, and World Bank 1818 Society. I also received useful feedback from participants at prior annual meetings of the American Political Science Association and Midwest Political Science Association. This project received generous financial support from the Smith Richardson Foundation, without which it would not have been possible.
Despite the plausibility of this “ignorant voter” scenario, it turns out that voters in India—including those who are reasonably well-informed—often have very rational reasons for supporting candidates with criminal reputations. Beyond money, in contexts where the rule of law is weak and social divisions are highly salient, politicians can often use their criminality as a badge of honor—a signal of their credibility to protect the interests of their community and its allies, casting themselves as modern-day Robin Hoods operating in a polarized society.
My agent, Kathleen Anderson of Anderson Literary Management, championed this book from the very beginning. At Yale University Press, it has been a pleasure to work with Jaya Aninda Chatterjee, who has been a fantastic editor. Eliza Childs provided superb guidance on the final text. I am also grateful to the team at HarperCollins India, above all Somak Ghoshal and Karthika VK. Two anonymous reviewers provided incisive comments on the manuscript, for which I am sincerely appreciative. Devesh Kapur, Madhav Khosla, Neelanjan Sircar, and Ashley Tellis gave all, or part, of the manuscript a thorough read.
