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Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington. He聽</em><em>is the author (with William Thompson) of</em>聽Ascending India and Its State Capacity聽<em>(2017) and the</em><em>聽coeditor (with Eswaran Sridharan) of </em>The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics<em> (2014).</em> </div> <div class="author__items"> <article class="excerpt excerpt--post excerpt--21936 excerpt--no-gratis excerpt--image-landscape post-21936 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-online-exclusive authors-sumit-ganguly country-bangladesh region-asia region-south-asia subject-civil-society subject-governance subject-leadership-succession subject-opposition-movements"> <figure class="excerpt__image excerpt__image--landscape"> <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/did-muhammad-yunus-sign-up-for-mission-impossible/"> <img src="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2163733533-300x200.jpg" alt="" height="1706" width="2560" srcset="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2163733533-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2163733533-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2163733533-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2163733533-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2163733533-2048x1365.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px"> </a> </figure> <div class="excerpt__content"> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/did-muhammad-yunus-sign-up-for-mission-impossible/">Did Muhammad Yunus Sign Up for Mission Impossible?</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>The famed economist and Nobel laureate is charged with repairing what remains of Bangladesh鈥檚 democracy. But is someone even as accomplished as Yunus up to the task?</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--post excerpt--18771 excerpt--no-gratis excerpt--image-landscape post-18771 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-elections category-online-exclusive authors-sumit-ganguly country-india region-south-asia subject-civil-liberties subject-competitive-authoritarianism subject-elections"> <figure class="excerpt__image excerpt__image--landscape"> <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/elections/why-this-election-is-indias-most-important/"> <img src="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2044002027-300x200.jpg" alt="" height="681" width="1024" srcset="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2044002027-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2044002027-768x511.jpg 768w, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2044002027.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px"> </a> </figure> <div class="excerpt__content"> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/elections/why-this-election-is-indias-most-important/">Why This Election Is India鈥檚 Most Important</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>Voters are choosing more than the parties and politicians who will represent them. It is something more basic: The future of India鈥檚 secular democracy is on the ballot.</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--13726 excerpt--no-gratis excerpt--image-landscape post-13726 article type-article status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-july-2023 region-south-asia subject-democratic-decline"> <figure class="excerpt__image excerpt__image--landscape"> <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/modis-undeclared-emergency/"> <img src="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/India-2-scaled-e1688187904361-300x163.jpg" alt="" height="1184" width="2176" srcset="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/India-2-scaled-e1688187904361-300x163.jpg 300w, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/India-2-scaled-e1688187904361-1024x557.jpg 1024w, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/India-2-scaled-e1688187904361-768x418.jpg 768w, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/India-2-scaled-e1688187904361-1536x836.jpg 1536w, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/India-2-scaled-e1688187904361-2048x1114.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2176px) 100vw, 2176px"> </a> </figure> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> July 2023, Volume 34, Issue 3 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/modis-undeclared-emergency/">Modi鈥檚 Undeclared Emergency</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>Since the beginning of the second Modi government, an emboldened BJP has launched a steady, comprehensive, and unprecedented attack on civil liberties, personal rights, and free speech across India.</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--10925 excerpt--no-gratis post-10925 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-october-2021 region-south-asia subject-democratic-decline subject-governance"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> October 2021, Volume 32, Issue 4 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/indias-endangered-democracy/">India’s Endangered Democracy</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>Shortcomings in governance and electoral administration may be accelerating India鈥檚 slide to autocracy. Were these flaws embedded in Indian democracy from the start?</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--6329 excerpt--no-gratis post-6329 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-january-2020 region-south-asia subject-civil-liberties subject-illiberalism subject-nationalism"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> January 2020, Volume 31, Issue 1 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/an-illiberal-india/">An Illiberal India?</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>The country鈥檚 hold on electoral democracy is firm, but its claim still to be a liberal democracy is increasingly dubious.</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--3389 excerpt--no-gratis post-3389 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-january-2019 region-south-asia subject-civil-liberties subject-democratic-decline subject-media subject-minorities subject-nationalism subject-political-parties"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> January 2019, Volume 30, Issue 1 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/india-under-modi-threats-to-pluralism/">India Under Modi: Threats to Pluralism</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>In the world’s largest democracy, liberalism is in retreat, as evidenced by a pattern of assaults on minorities, press freedom, and the independence of key cultural and intellectual institutions.</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--3337 excerpt--no-gratis post-3337 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-july-2018 region-south-asia section-books-in-review subject-electoral-systems"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> July 2018, Volume 29, Issue 3 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/enrolling-india/">Enrolling India</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>A review of <i>How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise</i> by Ornit Shani.</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--3149 excerpt--no-gratis post-3149 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-july-2017 region-south-asia subject-civil-liberties"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> July 2017, Volume 28, Issue 3 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/indias-democracy-at-70-the-troublesome-security-state/">India鈥檚 Democracy at 70: The Troublesome Security State</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>Read the full essay <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/article/664172">here</a>. Seven decades after gaining its independence from the British Empire, India retains all the hallmarks of a functioning democracy: It holds reasonably free and fair elections, has a mostly independent judiciary plus a largely free press, and enjoys a robust and growing civil society. Yet thanks to India鈥檚 colonial inheritance…</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--2731 excerpt--no-gratis post-2731 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-october-2014 region-south-asia subject-elections"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> October 2014, Volume 25, Issue 4 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/indias-watershed-vote-the-risks-ahead/">India鈥檚 Watershed Vote: The Risks Ahead</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>Will the Modi government focus on the economy, or will it seek to implement a transformational Hindu-nationalist agenda?</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--2662 excerpt--no-gratis post-2662 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-april-2014 region-south-asia subject-democratic-decline subject-political-culture subject-political-parties"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> April 2014, Volume 25, Issue 2 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/shifting-tides-in-south-asia-india-and-its-neighbors/">Shifting Tides in South Asia: India and Its Neighbors</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>Home to about a quarter of the world’s people, South Asia presents a murky and not very encouraging picture when it comes to democracy.</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--2603 excerpt--no-gratis post-2603 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india country-pakistan issue-october-2013 region-south-asia section-books-in-review subject-democratic-decline subject-democratic-transition"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> October 2013, Volume 24, Issue 4 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/separated-at-birth/">Separated at Birth?</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>A review of <em>The Promise of Power: The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan</em> by Maya Tudor.</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--713 excerpt--no-gratis post-713 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-january-2012 region-asia subject-accountability subject-civil-society subject-corruption subject-political-culture"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> January 2012, Volume 23, Issue 1 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/corruption-in-india-an-enduring-threat/">Corruption in India: An Enduring Threat</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>Social activist Anna Hazare’s hunger strike has helped to turn the world’s attention to India’s rampant corruption.</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--1002 excerpt--no-gratis post-1002 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-october-2009 region-asia section-article subject-civil-society subject-elections subject-political-parties subject-religion"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> October 2009, Volume 20, Issue 4 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/indias-2009-elections-a-vote-to-stay-the-course/">India鈥檚 2009 Elections: A Vote to Stay the Course</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>Indian voters pulled off a surprise by allowing the Congress party to retain power at the head of a more coherent coalition that is far less dependent on a congeries of small regional parties.</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--1030 excerpt--no-gratis post-1030 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-pakistan issue-october-2008 region-asia section-article subject-ethnic-conflict subject-islam subject-minorities subject-nationalism subject-religion"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> October 2008, Volume 19, Issue 4 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pakistan-after-musharraf-the-burden-of-history/">Pakistan After Musharraf: The Burden of History</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>Since its founding out of the partition of British India in 1947, Pakistan has labored in the shadow of critical choices made at that time.</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--1183 excerpt--no-gratis post-1183 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-april-2008 region-asia section-books-in-review subject-democratic-consolidation subject-political-culture subject-religion"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> April 2008, Volume 19, Issue 2 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/books-in-review-indias-improbable-success/">India’s Improbable Success</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>A review of <i>India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy</i> by Ramachandra Guha and <i>The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence and India's Future</i> by Martha C. Nussbaum.</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--1417 excerpt--no-gratis post-1417 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-april-2007 region-asia section-article subject-democratic-consolidation subject-democratic-transition"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> April 2007, Volume 18, Issue 2 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/indias-unlikely-democracy-six-decades-of-independence/">India’s Unlikely Democracy: Six Decades of Independence</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>By most theoretical accounts, Indian democracy should not even exist. Yet, despite serious challenges, it shows signs of enduring and even deepening.</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--1584 excerpt--no-gratis post-1584 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-brian-shoup authors-sumit-ganguly country-nepal issue-october-2005 region-asia section-article subject-democratic-transition subject-monarchy"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> October 2005, Volume 16, Issue 4 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/nepal-between-dictatorship-and-anarchy/">Nepal: Between Dictatorship and Anarchy</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/brian-shoup/">Brian Shoup</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>Nepal’s people find themselves caught in an ugly struggle between two antidemocratic ideologies—royal absolutism and Maoism. What happened?</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--1843 excerpt--no-gratis post-1843 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-october-2003 region-middle-east-and-north-africa section-article"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> October 2003, Volume 14, Issue 4 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-crisis-of-indian-secularism/">The Crisis of Indian Secularism</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>The principled separation of religious from political claims upon which Indian democracy depends may not be dead, but it is ailing badly. How did things reach this pass, and what is the prognosis for recovery?</p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--article excerpt--2051 excerpt--no-gratis post-2051 article type-article status-publish hentry authors-sumit-ganguly country-india issue-january-2002 region-asia section-article subject-democratic-consolidation subject-economic-development"> <div class="excerpt__content"> <p class="excerpt__issue"> January 2002, Volume 13, Issue 1 </p> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/south-asia-faces-the-future-indias-multiple-revolutions/">South Asia Faces the Future: India’s Multiple Revolutions</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sumit-ganguly/">艩umit Ganguly</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>Over the last two decades, India has gone through a series of peaceful revolutions-in society, in economic life, and in the political system-that have strengthened Indian democracy and given it a basis on which to thrive in decades to come.</p> </div> </div> </article> </div> <hr> <div class="author__items"> <article class="excerpt excerpt--book excerpt--467 excerpt--no-gratis excerpt--image-portrait post-467 book type-book status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry authors-larry-diamond authors-leonardo-morlino"> <figure class="excerpt__image excerpt__image--portrait"> <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/books/assessing-the-quality-of-democracy/"> <img src="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/41B43EDYXCL._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg" alt="" height="499" width="333" srcset="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/41B43EDYXCL._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/41B43EDYXCL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg 333w" sizes="(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px"> </a> </figure> <div class="excerpt__content"> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/books/assessing-the-quality-of-democracy/">Assessing the Quality of Democracy</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/larry-diamond/">Larry Diamond</a></li> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/leonardo-morlino/">Leonardo Morlino</a></li> </ul> <div class="excerpt__copy"> <p>"An important milestone in the study of democratic quality, and an excellent resource for both scholarly researchers and graduate courses on comparative democracy and democratization."—Daunis Auerson, <i>Political Studies Review</i></p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="excerpt excerpt--book excerpt--463 excerpt--no-gratis excerpt--image-portrait post-463 book type-book status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry authors-larry-diamond authors-marc-f-plattner authors-sumit-ganguly country-india region-asia"> <figure class="excerpt__image excerpt__image--portrait"> <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/books/the-state-of-indias-democracy/"> <img src="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/41BG4qM9KL._SX333_BO1204203200_-201x300.jpg" alt="" height="499" width="335" srcset="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/41BG4qM9KL._SX333_BO1204203200_-201x300.jpg 201w, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/41BG4qM9KL._SX333_BO1204203200_.jpg 335w" sizes="(max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px"> </a> </figure> <div class="excerpt__content"> <h2 class="excerpt__title"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/books/the-state-of-indias-democracy/">The State of India’s Democracy</a></h2> <ul class="authors "> <li class="authors__author"><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/marc-f-plattner/">Marc F. 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