While there seems broad agreement about Brazil, the Philippines, and Turkey being erstwhile democracies moving progressively away from democratic principles, even India, the UK, and the US are widely considered to be on a similar path. It is this thought that the editors of the book, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan and Sudarsan Padmanabhan, express when they write, “Almost inevitably in democracies, strong tendencies occasionally emerge which in effect reduce democracy to electoral politics as the only form of political activity. Major political parties seem to do this very often….”
In an attempt to “outline the ways Indian democracy. . .