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Partisan Federalism and Subnational Governments’ International Engagements: Insights from India

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  • Chanchal Kumar Sharma
  • Sandra Destradi
  • Johannes Plagemann

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This article situates the international activities of subnational governments in India within the broader political economy of federalism. It argues that the nature and the extent of subnational states’ engagements in international affairs are a function of the partisan political relationship the state incumbents have with the national incumbents. The article takes a mixed methods approach. An analysis of 1,153 episodes of international engagements of India’s states from 1996 to 2017 reveals that shifts in foreign policy engagement of selected state governments primarily reflect alterations in the subnational incumbents’ political affiliation with the Union government. Several qualitative case studies shed light on how the central government’s inclusion of subnational governments’ perspectives and representatives in foreign affairs is highly partisan and profoundly political. Therefore, the Indian case reveals how subnational diplomatic interactions merge domestic and international politics.

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  • Chanchal Kumar Sharma & Sandra Destradi & Johannes Plagemann, 2020. "Partisan Federalism and Subnational Governments’ International Engagements: Insights from India," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 50(4), pages 566-592.
  • Handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:50:y:2020:i:4:p:566-592.
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