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Winning big: The political logic of winning elections with large margins in India (2022)
Journal Article
Bajpai, R., & Saez, L. (2022). Winning big: The political logic of winning elections with large margins in India. India Review, 21(1), 21-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2021.2018200

Politicians winning elections with large margins of victory, beyond what is necessary to win electoral contests,what we term “winning big”, is a common, yet under-studied phenomenon across the world. Political economy models suggest that winning big... Read More about Winning big: The political logic of winning elections with large margins in India.

Mechanisms of democratic authoritarianism: de-centring the executive in South Asia and beyond (2022)
Journal Article
Bajpai, R., & Kureshi, Y. (2022). Mechanisms of democratic authoritarianism: de-centring the executive in South Asia and beyond. Democratization, 29(8), 1375-1396. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2022.2062324

How do we theorize the unexpected global trend of democratic regression? Building upon recent literature on backsliding, we offer a new conceptualization of the notion of democratic authoritarianism, denoting the use of democratic-looking institution... Read More about Mechanisms of democratic authoritarianism: de-centring the executive in South Asia and beyond.

Pluralizing Pluralism: Lessons from, and for, India (2022)
Journal Article
Bajpai, R. (2022). Pluralizing Pluralism: Lessons from, and for, India. The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 20(1), 27-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/15570274.2022.2031046

Embracing religious belief and societal norms, in addition to state laws and policies, covenantal pluralism has the potential to address key limitations of existing approaches to dealing with religious diversity. Nevertheless, it also shares some of... Read More about Pluralizing Pluralism: Lessons from, and for, India.

Religious pluralism and the state in India: Towards a typology (2021)
Book Chapter
Bajpai, R. (2021). Religious pluralism and the state in India: Towards a typology. In K. Barkey, S. Kaviraj, & V. Naresh (Eds.), Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism: India, Pakistan, and Turkey (139-156). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197530016.003.0007

This chapter delineates and disaggregates a relatively neglected category, that of political pluralism. I argue, first, that historically, India has offered an important example of plurality in policy, with a multiplicity of state approaches and disp... Read More about Religious pluralism and the state in India: Towards a typology.

Liberalisms in India (2020)
Book Chapter
Bajpai, R. (2020). Liberalisms in India. In L. K. Jenco, M. Idris, & M. C. Thomas (Eds.), Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (485-503). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190253752.013.2

Liberal ideas in India are relatively understudied as liberalism, although these have been examined as part of other ideologies, such as nationalism, socialism, and secularism.This chapter offers an exploratory sketch of strands of liberalism in Indi... Read More about Liberalisms in India.

What do descriptive representatives describe? Minority representative claims and the limits of Shape-shifting (2019)
Journal Article
Bajpai, R. (2019). What do descriptive representatives describe? Minority representative claims and the limits of Shape-shifting. Ethnicities, 19(5), 740-762. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796819847497

In contemporary debates on diversity, minorities are characterized mostly in terms of their cultural difference from the majority. Scholars have tended to focus on the role of minority representatives as advocates of their group interests in legislat... Read More about What do descriptive representatives describe? Minority representative claims and the limits of Shape-shifting.

Non-extremist Outbidding: Muslim Leadership in Majoritarian India (2018)
Journal Article
Bajpai, R., & Farooqui, A. (2018). Non-extremist Outbidding: Muslim Leadership in Majoritarian India. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 24(3), 276-298. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2018.1489487

How do parties representing minorities survive and expand at a time of majoritarian nationalism? Influential accounts suggest that the rise of majoritarianism should give rise to corresponding extremism (outbidding) in minority parties. Through a det... Read More about Non-extremist Outbidding: Muslim Leadership in Majoritarian India.