Democratic Governance and Socio-Economic Development in India: Evolving Dynamics and Empirical Correlations Introduction The interplay between democratic governance and socio-economic development has long animated scholarly discourse in political economy and development studies. Classical modernisation theorists such as Seymour Martin Lipset (1959) proposed a positive correlation between democracy and development, while others—like Samuel Huntington—questioned the sequencing … Continue reading How has the relationship between democratic governance and socio-economic development evolved in the Indian context, and to what extent does empirical evidence support the theorised correlation between democratic institutions and developmental outcomes?