Indian Politics & Policy

We are delighted that the second issue under the guidance of the new editorial team engages significant issues in Indian politics and policy. These include COVID-19 management, the decline of institutions such as the judiciary and the election commission, coalition politics, and India's democratic consolidation, and the roots of welfarism in China, India, and Turkey. This volume also deliberates on policies and legislations that have engendered instruments such as the citizenship identification marker christened as the "Aadhaar card" and the infamous electoral bonds scheme, which was declared illegal by the Indian Supreme Court in 2024. Some papers engage with the issue of political management. Others deal with the question of how an autocratizing executive interferes with the institutions of the state, and how the paucity of checks and balances comes with severe human costs.

Table of Contents for this issue

Editor's Introduction
Rahul Mukherji

RESEARCH
Experts in Estrangement: India's Public Health Agencies and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dinsha Mistree, Rehana Mohammed, and Naman Shah

Executive Control over Institutional Checks: The Supreme Court and the Election Commission of India
Zoya Hasan

Identifying 1.4 Billion Indians Biometrically? Corporate World, State, and Civil Society
Nicolas Belorgey and Christophe Jaffrelot

Coalition Politics and Modi Sarkar 3.0: Indications from Recent History and Theory
Rob Jenkins

Politics of the Poor and Social Protection in Emerging Asia: A Comparative Analysis of China, India, and Turkey
Indrajit Roy, Burak G rel, and Erdem Y r k

PERSPECTIVES
Electoral Bonds-A Fraud on India's Democracy
Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri

State of the Indian Judiciary
Prashant Bhushan