Economist Ashwini Deshpande on Why Reservations are Not the Right Instrument to Reduce Poverty
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Economist Ashwini Deshpande on Why Reservations are Not the Right Instrument to Reduce Poverty

Reservations were conceptualised as compensation for social discrimination, not economic deprivation, argues Deshpande, professor of Economics at Ashoka University, while discussing the apex court verdict.

Of, By, and For the Elite: The Class Character of the U.S. Constitution
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Of, By, and For the Elite: The Class Character of the U.S. Constitution

The founding fathers of the US Constitution feared and hated the concept of democracy. They derisively referred to it as “tyranny of the majority.” The constitution that they wrote reflects this, and seeks to restrict and prohibit involvement of the people in key areas of decision making.

Us and Them
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Us and Them

A left-populist strategy recognizes that society is inherently divided and insists on the partisan nature of politics. In this sense it accords with the Marxian approach, but it differs in the way the frontier is constructed – the the populist frontier is not constructed on a class basis.