Political Pluralism, Public Policies, and Organizational Choices: Banking Branch Expansion in India, 1948–2003
分析了1948至2003年印度94家商业银行的数据，检验政治多元主义（不同政党分别控制中央和地方政府）能否促进企业扩张，结果发现多元主义能减少政府对企业决策的约束，但也可能引发恶性竞争，损害地方扩张机会。
Data on the expansion of 94 commercial banks in India from 1948 to 2003 were analyzed to test the proposition that political pluralism–wherein competing parties control the state and national governments of a nation–can promote business expansion. The results confirm that such political pluralism reduces the power of either government to constrain business decision making but that pluralism might at times lead to unhealthy competition between parties, harming local expansion opportunities. The data show that, in India, banks selectively exploit political pluralism to guide their expansion decisions.