Apurav Bhatiya on Synchronized Elections and Voter Behavior
Ideas of India
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Do You Think India Will Switch to a System of Synchronized Elections?
In the framework of india's uno democratic structure, in the republic, we have a set of horizontal checks and balances. One of the important normative implications of your paper is that holding synchronized elections would actually weaken the federal structure. Now party salience is going to dominate other effects. Is it a reasonable assumption that as the voting system changes... eventually the voters will also get smarter, and they'll know that they are being gamed, and these effects will go away? If the voter is rationally ignorant, then that's not going to be the case. But, you know, if it's only a question of cognitive capacity, right? Then hopefully, over a period of time
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