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The article focuses on the importance of exercising judgement in political life. Topics discussed include, distinctiveness of political judgment, and prerequisites of good political judgment and its scope. Also discussed are the ramifications for political explanation, and alternative definitions of political judgment.

This paper examines the politics of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) between 1996 and 2002. First, it begins with an explanation of the challenge that Hindu nationalism posed from the 1980s onwards to India’s multinational democratic State that evolved following Independence. Second, it argues that to explain the official moderation of the BJP in the formal political arena since 1996 requires us to examine the centrist logic of the Indian democratic regime: the effects of its plurality-rule electoral system, parliamentary form of cabinet government and federal party system. Third, however, it demonstrates the ways in which the BJP has circumvented these institutional constraints in various realms and manipulated the terms of political discourse to its own partisan advantage. In doing so, the paper elucidates the strengths and limitations of political analyses that focus on the design and impact of political institutions, in the Indian context and elsewhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the comparative study related to the economic and political structures in India and China. It mentions the factors of the comparative study which measures the both countries structural form on economic growth, reforms and inequality. It notes on the comparative study on inequality in India by the international standards. It also highlights the results on the economic inequality in China due to its revolutionary government.