Title page
Contents
Summary 3
Introduction 4
India goes to the polls: attributes of Indian democracy 5
India's model of democracy promotion 7
Democratization of technology: digital public infrastructure 12
Are India and the West aligned on democracy promotion? 15
Risks on the horizon 22
Conclusion 26
Acknowledgments 30
Figure 1. India's deteriorating global democracy rankings 6
Figure 2. Democracy promotion activities of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme 9
Boxes
Box 1. South Asia: a more active and interventionist approach towards democracy promotion 11
Box 2. Myanmar 20
Box 3. Bangladesh 21
Box 4. Relations with Israel 25