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Item The 2019 Parliamentary elections in India: Democracy at a Crossroads?(Taylor and Francis, 2022-03-03) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem Beyond gaps and Imbalances: Re-structuring the debate on intergovernmental fiscal relations(Public Administration, 2011) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem Concessionary Federalism as a Tactical choice to Facilitate Constitutional Change—A Lesson from India’s Indirect Tax Reforms(50 SHADES OF FEDERALISM, 2022) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem Concessionary federalism in a dominant party system? Indirect tax reforms and subnational acquiescence in India(Taylor and Francis, 2021) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem Conditional Concessions and Cessation of Secession: What Role for Fiscal Federalism?—Insights from India(2024) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem Continuity and change in contemporary Indian federalism(India Review, 2017) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem Continuity and change in contemporary Indian federalism(Taylor and Francis, 2017) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem A Discursive Dominance Theory of Economic Reform Sustainability: The Case of India(Taylor and Francis, 2011-04) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem Does fiscal federalism prevent or provoke secessionist conflicts? The Autonomy-Equalization Conundrum and the promise of concessionary federalism(2024) Sharma, Chanchal KumarDoes Fiscal Federalism Prevent or Provoke Secessionist Conflicts? This article shows that both insufficient fiscal equalisation and excessive redistribution can provoke contestations – especially when economic grievances of low- and high-income states coincide with national minorities. Fiscal federalism must strike a balance – empowering low-income states without expropriating high-income states – to prevent these contestations from escalating into con f licts. The challenge is twofold: First, designing a policy framework that discourages the perverse incentives associated with high levels of equalisation and autonomy. This may be recommended by Independent Fiscal Institutions (IFIs). However, this is not sufficient, because political incumbents – influenced by their incentives and self-interest – might resist these recommendations. Therefore, the second level challenge lies in making these recommendations work. One way is to establish institutionalised mechanisms of inter governmental negotiations which can reveal interdependencies and facilitate (a) continuous dialogue – enabling parties to align their incentives with economists’ recommendations and recognise their common interests where they had previously perceived con f licting ones, and (b) reciprocal concessions – encouraging parties to relax their dominant strategies. Intergovernmental councils with predefined principles for contestations and mandatory outputs (agreed-upon concessions) can yield an equilibrium where no party has a unilateral incentive to deviate, encapsulating the essence of negotiated cooperation and concessionary federalism.Item The dynamics of federal (in)stability and negotiated cooperation under single-party dominance: insights from Modi’s India(Contemporary South Asia, 2022) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem The dynamics of federal (in)stability and negotiated cooperation under single-party dominance: insights from Modi’s India.(Taylor and Francis, 2022) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem Economic governance: Does it make or break a dominant party equilibrium? The case of India(Sage, 2019) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem Emerging Dimensions of Decentralization Debate in the Age of Globalization(Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2008-01) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem An Evolving Concept(Oxford University Press, 2019) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem The Federal Approach to Fiscal Decentralization: Conceptual Contours for Policy Makers(Loyola Journal of Social Sciences, 2005-07) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem Fiscal Federalism(Oxford University Press, 2015-04) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem GST Reforms and Federalism in India: Understanding the Role of Critical Junctures, Veto Players, Constitutional Structures and the Judicial Safeguards of Federalism.(Centre for Multilevel Federalism, 2022-10-30) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem Implementing VAT in India : Implications for federal polity(Indian Political Science Association, 2005-10) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem India after the 2014 general elections: BJP dominance and the crisis of the third party system(Taylor and Francis, 2019) Sharma, Chanchal KumarItem India after the 2014 general elections: BJP dominance and the crisis of the third party system(Regional and Federal Studies, 2019) Sharma, Chanchal Kumar; Swenden, Wilfried; Schakel, Arjan H.This article critically assesses claims that India has entered a new party system after the 2014 general elections, marked by renationalisation with the BJP as the new ‘dominant’ party.’ To assess these claims, we examine the electoral rise of the BJP in the build-up to and since the 2014 general elections until the state assembly elections in December 2018. Overall, we argue that despite the emerging dominance of the BJP, a core feature of the third party system -a system of binodal interactions- has remained largely intact albeit in a somewhat weaker form. Furthermore, by comparing the post 2014 Indian party system with key electoral features of the first three party systems, we conclude that the rise of the BJP has thrown the third-party system into crisis, but does not yet define the consolidation of a new party system.