Indian Politics & Policy Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2020 | Page 3

Editor’s Note ................................................................ 1
Sumit Ganguly
Introduction: What Does Verdict 2019
Tell Us? How Do We Read This Mandate? ................. 3
Sanjay Kumar, guest editor
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Economic Evaluations and the Incumbent
Vote in India’s Parliamentary Elections
(2014, 2019) ................................................................ 9
Siddharth Swaminathan
Do Issues Matter in Indian Elections? ..................... 31
Prashant Kumar Choudhary, Reetika Syal,
and Tarun Arora
Understanding Voting Patterns by Class
in the 2019 Indian Election ...................................... 49
Eswaran Sridharan
The Backwards Turn Right in the Hindi Belt:
Trajectories and Implications .................................. 67
Mohd. Sanjeer Alam
The Youth Vote in Lok Sabha Elections 2019........... 87
Vibha Attri and Jyoti Mishra
Does Muslim Vote Matter? Presence,
Representation, Participation ................................ 109
Hilal Ahmed
The Prospects for a Congress Party Revival ......... 129
James Manor
Review Essay: India’s Democracy:
The Point of No Return .......................................... 149
Maya Tudor