ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Delimitation, Malapportionment, and Federal Equity: The Political Economy of Representation in India
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- Gaddam Rohin and Areeba Ahsanat Moazzam This paper discusses how representational asymmetries and fiscal distribution relate in a federal system with reference to the case of India. It theorises malapportionment, ...
- Created on 15 August 2026
- 2. Constrained Federalism and the Limits of Urban Decentralization: Explaining India’s Urban Governance Deficit through Intergovernmental Political Economy
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- Prakash Chittoor and Naveen Kolloju India’s urban governance reveals a central paradox of federalism: despite constitutional decentralization under the 74th Amendment, Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) ...
- Created on 05 June 2026
- 3. The Current Challenges to Asymmetric Federalism in India in Comparative Perspective
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- Harihar Bhattacharyya The article examines the various facets of the challenges to asymmetric federalism in India in comparative perspective and in the appropriate theoretical framework of asymmetric ...
- Created on 22 July 2024
- 4. Symbolic Federalism and Real Exclusion: Post-Statehood Governance in Telangana and the Limits of Subnational Transformation
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- Raju Chaketi, Swati Nupur Tigga and Naveen Kolloju The formation of Telangana in 2014 was widely celebrated as a landmark moment in the evolution of Indian federalism and as a decisive response ...
- Created on 20 April 2026
- 5. Modi’s Nehru Jacket: President’s Rule Invocations during the tenures of Prime Ministers Nehru and Modi
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- Panch Rishi Dev Sharma The President’s Rule impositions under Article 356 of the Constitution of India extraordinarily empower the central government to determine ‘constitutional machinery failure ...
- Created on 20 November 2024
- 6. Centre-state Relations: A Kerala Experience
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- ... Thus, the co-operative federal experience of India gave way to competitive federalism. Since then, the congress party had been looking for an opportunity to dismantle the first communist ministry in Kerala. ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
