ISAS Briefs

India’s democracy has been deteriorating in recent years, particularly since the current National Democratic Alliance came into power in 2014. The erosion of democracy is captured by the recently released V-Dem dataset, one of the most rigorous ways of measuring democratic quality. In this paper, we analyse recent trends in key aspects of India’s democracy. We conclude by pointing out that this is unlikely to have a significant impact on the forthcoming general elections.