A study of political belief formation and political preferences among educated young elites in India

• In Event: Education, Careers, and the Politics of the Bureaucracy in Developing Countries

Brief Overview

We leverage a natural experiment to examine whether being randomly assigned to work for one or another type of MP (who differ on partisanship, religion, education, etc.) affects the political beliefs and preferences of young adults in India.

Authors

• Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland

• Nishtha Sharma, University of California, Irvine