Fiscal transfers, climate risks, and partisan politics: does the nature of climate risk matter?
Fiscal transfers, climate risks, and partisan politics: does the nature of climate risk matter?
The study argues that the nature of risk – viz., relatively slow emergence of drought compared to sudden manifestation of flood events, could perhaps provide scope for partisan politics. In the context of changing landscape of political alignment and the dynamically changing nature of climate risks in India, the evidence from this study provides crucial inputs for better understanding of the political economy of disaster management.
Publication Date:
01/08/2022