Politics of Jugaad

Politics of Jugaad examines the history of coalition governments to project the possibilities of one, asthe countdown to the 2019 Lok Sabha election begins. It asks whether coalitions are an inevitabilitywe have to live with, especially since coalitions have been unstable, and whether they also hold outthe promise of greater democratization in a nation as diverse as ours. It analyses the possibilitiesof the formation of coalitions in various states and their chances of success and failure, l