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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111755
	Political economy of agricultural electricity tariffs: Rural politics of Indian States
	Kato A.; Fukumi A.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	03014215
卷号	145
英文摘要	Although electricity is one of the most important determinants of successful industrialization, many countries do not provide sufficient amounts of electricity at reasonable prices for industrialization. In order to inquire into the causes behind this, we investigate the factors that influence electricity tariffs for agricultural consumers at the state level in India. We conduct a dynamic panel data analysis using data for seventeen major states in India for the period from 1992 to 2012. Our estimation results suggest that as the Gini coefficient of landowning rises, the agricultural electricity tariffs become lower. However, the rural population share does not significantly affect agricultural electricity tariffs. These results indicate that state governments are responsive to the demands of large farmers (rural elites) but not to the demands of farmers more generally (rural masses). Our results are consistent with elite politics but not mass politics. Low electricity tariffs for agricultural consumers have caused insufficient investment in the infrastructure necessary for the expansion of industries, as well as high electricity tariffs for industrial consumers, which may have adversely affected the industrialization of state economies in India. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Electricity tariff Elite politics Mass politics Political economy Political survival
英文关键词	Agricultural robots; Agriculture; Investments; Dynamic panel data; Electricity tariff; Estimation results; Gini coefficients; Industrial consumers; Insufficient investments; Political economy; State governments; Industrial economics; agricultural economics; electricity supply; energy market; governance approach; panel data; political economy; rural electrification; rural politics; rural population; tariff structure; India
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204714
作者单位	Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, 1-21-1 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-0051, Japan; Institute for Policy Analysis and Social Innovation, University of Hyogo, 8-2-1 Gakuennishi-machi, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 651-2197, Japan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kato A.,Fukumi A.. Political economy of agricultural electricity tariffs: Rural politics of Indian States[J],2020,145.
APA	Kato A.,&Fukumi A..(2020).Political economy of agricultural electricity tariffs: Rural politics of Indian States.Energy Policy,145.
MLA	Kato A.,et al."Political economy of agricultural electricity tariffs: Rural politics of Indian States".Energy Policy 145(2020).