Who Suggests Policies for the Future?: A Historical Randomization of Tenure Lengths in the Indian Parliament

• In Event: Electoral Campaigns, Policy Changes and Elite Behavior

Brief Overview

We examine how a tenure length affects politician’s statements in India. We use a natural experiment where the Indian government randomized politicians’ tenure length in 1952 to identify the impact of longer tenure lengths on policy suggestions.

Authors

• Jun Goto

• Tomoko Matsumoto, Tokyo University of Science

• Junichi Yamasaki, Kobe University