Why do Poor Vote for Right-Wing Parties?: Nationalist rhetoric and the rise of the BJP in India

• In Event: Violence, nationalism and voting

Brief Overview

Why do the poor vote for right-wing parties? Using panel surveys conducted during 1996 and 1999 national elections in India, we show that effective use of nationalist rhetoric led to broadening of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) social base.

Authors

• Dishil Shrimankar, University of Nottingham

• Pranav Gupta, University of California, Berkeley