Book: Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage And Ethnic Head Counts In India 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.
Details of Book: Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage And Ethnic Head Counts In India Book: Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage And Ethnic Head Counts In India
Author: Kanchan Chandra, Peter Lange, Robert H. Bates
ISBN: 0521891418
ISBN-13: 9780521891417
, 978-0521891417
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 15022007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 368
Language: English