With the help of statistical and qualitative evidence, this chaper demonstrates the empirical validity of the informational theory of democratic deepening. First, results from five statstical models show how two-party states where the local voter information has become politically salient are more decentralized than multiparty states where local information is not needed for the state leadrs to win elections. Second, historical case studies of Kerala and Maharashtra trace through the changes in the political salience of local information and the fragmentation of the state party system to demonstrate how these relate to the deepening of democracy that the information theory presented in this book posits.