WHY ETHNIC PARTIES SUCCEED by Kanchan Chandra ( 9780521814522 )

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Title:

WHY ETHNIC PARTIES SUCCEED
PATRONAGE AND ETHNIC HEAD COUNTS IN INDIA

By:

Kanchan Chandra

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0521814529

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9780521814522

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 March, 2004

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Pages:

368

Description:

Offers a theory on the performance of ethnic political parties as a distinct phenomenon.

Synopsis:

Why do some ethnic parties succeed in attracting the support of their target ethnic group while others fail? In a world in which ethnic parties flourish in both established and emerging democracies alike, understanding the conditions under which such parties rise and fall is of critical importance to both political scientists and policy makers. Drawing on a study of variation in the performance of ethnic parties in India, this book builds a theory of ethnic party performance in 'patronage democracies'. Chandra shows why individual voters and political entrepreneurs in such democracies condition their strategies not on party ideologies or policy platforms, but on a headcount of co-ethnics and others across party personnel and among the electorate.

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17 b/w illus. 7 maps 39 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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