Emerging Trends in Indian Politics: The Fifteenth General Election

ISBN-13: 9780415864848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 400 str.

Ajay K. Mehra

Opis

This study presents 13 articles interrogating themes likely to impinge on India's 15th general elections in 2009. These were written following intense discussion between the contributors and use available data as well as original data and analysis. The significance of the analyses goes beyond how much these questions find place in the campaign, or how much they would impact the electoral results. These have and would continue to be essential themes in Indian politics for some time. They would influence the country's politics, its leaders, parties and institutions and would be interrogated in political, policy and social science circles in the foreseeable future. They would in turn be impacted, redefined and perhaps transformed by political dynamics and social pressure. The first attempt of its kind to analyse the impact of certain emerging trends in politics on upcoming elections anywhere in the world, this book will be a useful addition to election studies and policy making in general.

Spis treści

List of Abbreviations List of Tables Foreword Preface 1.Introduction by Ajay K. Mehra 2.Coping with the Delimitation: New Electoral Strategies by Ashutosh Kumar 3.Economic Issues in the Electoral Arena: Party Programmes and the Politics of Development by O. P. Sharma 4.The Emerging Politics of Cohabitation: New Challenges by Kailash K. K. 5.Emerging Patterns in Dalit Politics by Ajay K. Mehra 6.The Emerging Patterns of Muslim Politics by S. Mujibur Rahman 7.The Tribal Groups and Indian Politics by Govind C. Rath 8.Regionalism and the Politics of Autonomy and Smaller States by Amit Prakash 9.The Missing Women of Indian Politics by Rajeshwari Deshpande 10.Internal Security and the Fifteenth General Election by Prakash Nanda 11.The Role of the Media in Contemporary Indian Politicsby Seema Mustafa 12.Contemporary Indian Politics and the Corporate Sector by Jayti Shrivastav 13.Foreign Policy and Indian Politics: Issues Before the Fifteenth General Election by Partha S. Ghosh 14.Diaspora in Indian Politics: Emerging Trends by Girijesh Pant Bibliography Index

O autorze

Ajay K. Mehra is Honorary Director, Centre for Public Affairs, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Delhi, India.