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How has the electoral democracy augmented the participation of people in the democratic process?

  • UPSC 2022
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  • Politics of Representation and Participation

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Electoral democracy is the minimal conception Joseph A. Schumpeter set out in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942): a method in which leaders win the power to decide through a competitive struggle for the people's vote. Robert A. Dahl's polyarchy (1971) adds the two dimensions that matter here, contestation and inclusiveness. Elections widened participation chiefly along…

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  • Mechanisms that widen participation
  • The Indian evidence
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