Ideas of India

Mercatus economist Shruti Rajagopalan works through new papers and books on how India's labor, land, cities and legislatures actually work

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Hindu monastery density narrows electoral victory margins by roughly 0.7 percentage points

Monasteries shift allegiances to whoever offers better terms, and this unpredictability tightens electoral races rather than settling them.