CSDS-Lokniti post-poll survey: The impact of social welfare schemes on voting behaviour
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CSDS-Lokniti post-poll survey: The impact of social welfare schemes on voting behaviour

The Hindu  

Since 2004, when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the centre introduced a series of rights-based entitlement programmes, scholarly and popular discussions of election outcomes have highlighted the influence of social welfare policies on voting behaviour. When we examine data on five major social welfare schemes, including the Public Distribution System, Ujjwala, MNREGS, Ayushman Bharat and the housing Scheme we see that the percentage of voters who reported receiving a benefit from a scheme varied from one fourth to two thirds of the respondents. The likelihood that voters will give credit to the central government for welfare schemes has increased since 2019. While on average, four in every 10 of the respondents credited the central government for the delivery of welfare programmes in 2019, close to two-thirds of the respondents credited the centre in 2024.

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How does welfare politics translate into votes?
2 months, 1 week ago

How does welfare politics translate into votes?

The Hindu  

Kailash, KK, ‘The Politics of Welfare: The BJP and the Discerning Voter’, Studies in Indian Politics, 12 228-250, 2024, Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Thus, welfare, having started out as a policy instrument to reduce inequality, provide a safety net and build national capacity for equitable growth, has dwindled into a handy tool to offset the limitations …

CSDS-Lokniti Survey: Amid weak execution, welfare may not have influenced Maharashtra vote - The Hindu
4 months, 1 week ago

CSDS-Lokniti Survey: Amid weak execution, welfare may not have influenced Maharashtra vote - The Hindu

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party -led Mahayuti in Maharashtra relied on welfare-driven politics for securing the voter support, a tactic that the BJP has successfully implemented in other States. In Maharashtra, however, State-level welfare initiatives have performed unevenly, with the Union government schemes reaching slightly higher number of beneficiaries. Given the overall weak and uneven implementation of the welfare schemes, there …

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