Parties and Political Change in South Asia

Herausgeber: Chiriyankandath, James

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Produktbeschreibung

Political parties have been central in shaping the politics and society across contemporary South Asia but have not received the scholarly attention they deserve. Parties and Political Change consider aspects of their role in three states in the region - India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Ths book was published as a special issue of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781138821569
• ISBN-10: 113882156X
• Artikelnr.: 41024166

Autorenporträt

James Chiriyankandath is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and Co-Editor of the journal Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. Having previously worked at the universities of Hull, London Guildhall and London Metropolitan, he has taught, researched and published on the politics of South Asia (especially India) for over two decades.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Parties and political change in South Asia 2. Losing the connection:
party-voter linkages in Pakistan 3. Elite formation within a political
party: the case of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham 4. Class, nation and
religion: changing nature of Akali Dal politics in Punjab, India 5.
Incumbency, internal processes and renomination in Indian parties 6. Women
candidates and party nomination trends in India - evidence from the 2009
general election 7. Parties, political decay, and democratic regression in
Sri Lanka 8. Elite patronage over party democracy - high politics in Sri
Lanka following independence