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The first comprehensive study of the nexus between crime and democracy in India.

In India, the world’s largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic elections exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties actively recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why do voters elect (and even reelect) them, to the point that a third of state and national legislators assume office with pending criminal charges?

In this eye-opening book, political scientist Milan Vaishnav takes readers deep into the marketplace for criminal politicians by drawing on fieldwork on the campaign trail, large surveys, and an original database on politicians’ backgrounds. The result is the first systematic study of an issue that has profound implications for democracy both with and beyond India’s borders.

Milan Vaishnav is the director and a senior fellow in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such as corruption and governance, state capacity, distributive politics, and electoral behavior.

He is the author of When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics (Yale University Press and HarperCollins India, 2017) and co-editor (with Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Devesh Kapur) of Rethinking Public Institutions in India (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is co-editor (with Devesh Kapur) of a forthcoming volume on money and electoral politics in India. His work has also been published in scholarly journals such as Asian Survey, Governance, India Review, and India Policy Forum. He is a regular contributor to several Indian publications.

Previously, he worked at the Center for Global Development, where he served as a postdoctoral research fellow, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has taught at Columbia, Georgetown, and George Washington Universities. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I
Lawmakers and Lawbreakers: The Puzzle of Indian Democracy
What does the marketplace for criminal politicians look like and what supply and demand forces make it tick?
The Rise of the Rents Raj: India’s Corruption Ecosystem
How have India’s politics, economy, and society been transformed since India’s independence? And how can we understand the country’s puzzling governance deficit?
Part II
Criminal Enterprise: Why Criminals Join Politics
How has the relationship between crime and politics changed as democracy has evolved? What incentives do individuals with serious criminal reputations have to take part in the electoral sphere?
The Costs of Democracy: How Money Fuels Muscle
Individuals linked to wrongdoing may have their own incentives to join politics. But why do political parties select candidates with serious criminal records?
Doing Good by Doing Bad: The Demand for Criminality
Does voter ignorance explain why voters back politicians linked to crime? Or might voters have rational reasons for lending their support?
The Salience of Social Divisions: How Context Shapes Criminality
How can social divisions sharpen the appeal of criminal politicians? And how do these cleavages vary across India’s vast, diverse democracy?
Part III
Crime without Punishment: From Deep Roots to Proximate Causes
What are the policy levers reformers can wield in order to limit, if not eliminate, the entrenched position of tainted politicians?
An Entrenched Marketplace: Rethinking Democratic Accountability
What are the implications of the presence of criminal politicians for democracy and accountability? What, if anything, can the Indian experience tell us about the challenges facing other developing democracies?
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