On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> You mean, if I a politician has convinced me that if s/he comes to power,
> we
> will get good roads/food/whatever and I vote for hem because of that,
> that's
> a form of bribery? Hm...isn't that taking the definition too far?


As much a free TV is. You vote based on your self-interest, and different
things do it for different people. The question to ask is, why do some
people care more for a promise of a free TV than for a promise of good
governance? Is is because one of those promises is simply not credible
anymore? If not, why not?



-- 
Amit Varma
http://www.indiauncut.com

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