{"id":35947,"date":"2019-05-23T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T15:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/?p=35947"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:08:58","slug":"professor-vivek-dehejia-comments-on-p-m-modis-re-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/2019\/professor-vivek-dehejia-comments-on-p-m-modis-re-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Vivek Dehejia comments on P.M. Modi’s re-election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Professor Vivek Dehejia comments on P.M. Modi’s re-election campaign\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

\u201c\u2018He has veered away from economic issues and doubled down on traditional BJP Hindutva issues,\u2019 said Vivek Dehejia, an economics professor at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University of Ottawa, using a term that refers to a form of Hindu nationalism. \u2018A win sends the message that they don\u2019t have to worry that much about the economy, they can get re-elected without a major economics reforms push that would use political capital.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Eric Bellman and Bill Spindle, \u201cIndia Waits to See Which Modi Will Reign, With Polls Pointing to Re-Election,\u201d The Wall Street Journal<\/em> online<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201c\u2018He has veered away from economic issues and doubled down on traditional BJP Hindutva issues,\u2019 said Vivek Dehejia, an economics professor at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University of Ottawa, using a term that refers to a form of Hindu nationalism. \u2018A win sends the message that they don\u2019t have to worry that much about the economy, they can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,182,61,183],"class_list":["post-35947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-modi","tag-re-election","tag-vivek-dehejia","tag-wall-street-journal"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35950,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35947\/revisions\/35950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}