“Simultaneous Elections and Party Competition in Multi-level Systems: The Case of India” by Zach Taylor
For his dissertation, Zach Taylor focused on the peculiarities of Indian electoral politics. In India, subnational politics matter more than national politics, in sharp contrast to most cases discussed in the scholarship on electoral politics. Zach’s research adopted a two-way-fixed effects model to test whether simultaneous elections would increase voting for regional or national parties, … Read more