Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India

ISBN-13: 9780521891417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str.

Kanchan Chandra; Peter Lange; Robert H. Bates

Opis

Drawing on a study of variation in the performance of four ethnic parties in India, this book develops a theory of ethnic party performance in "patronage democracies"--a family of democracies with distinct patterns of political behavior as well as a new interpretation of Indian democracy. Demonstrating the connection between India's state-dominated economy and the behavior of its voters and politicians, it includes an extensive study of the Bahujan Samaj Party and contemporary ethnic politics in India.