Effects of political competition on policy formation and empirical research in India

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530313
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Aoyama Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Kato Atsushi 青山学院大学, 経営学部, 教授 (00286923)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 産業化政策 / 政治的競争 / 政策選択

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Competitive pressures by several interest groups influence a government's decision on whether to adopt public policy favorable for economic development. This research project focuses on the analysis of conditions that inducive to public policies that facilitates industrialization, and made empirical research on the choice of public policies by Indian state governments. As a result, I found that when industrial sector has strong bargaining power, relative to other interest groups such agricultural sector, state governments tend to adopt public policies favorable for indsutrial development.

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