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October 18, 2019 • 20:19 pm 0 points
  • UGC NET
  • Political Science

Who describes Indian federation as a ?holding together federation and not a ?coming together federation? ?

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    In classical federalism the emphasis is on restraining the federal government through checks and balances, in India it is more on regional redistribution and political integration. P. Bardhan in his article Democracy and Distributive Politics in India mentioned a useful distinction between "coming-together federalism" like the US, where previously sovereign polities gave up a part of their sovereignty for efficiency gains from resource pooling and a common market, and "holding-together federalism" as in multinational democracies like India (or Spain or Belgium), where compensating transfers keep the contending nationalities together.

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