It took five weeks of elections and the winner won thirty-one percent of the popular vote (Mahr & Miller, 2014, p. 22). In India, interest groups focus on working conditions. Indian unions align themselves closely with political parties so that they can be more powerful during elections. During elections, unions often stage illegal work stoppages, also known as “wildcat strikes” (Powell, Dalton, & Strom, 2012, p. 593) in an attempt to gain state intervention in favor of better conditions. There is one problem though; There are so many unions competing for a limited number of workers that the sheer number of unions degrades effectiveness. The same thing would be said for the elections. 464 different political parties participated in the election (Mahr & Miller, 2014, p. 22). India is crippled because its gross national product, in purchasing power parity terms, is only about six percent of that of the United States (Powell, Dalton, & Strom, 2012, p. 599). This is not to say that India's literacy rate is also low; this would be about sixty-five percent (Powell, Dalton, & Strom, 2012, p. 599). India has maintained a democratic form of government despite mass poverty and low literacy levels; a condition that is ripe for communism but continues to thrive against all