Crafty oligarchs, savvy voters: democracy under inequality in rural Pakistan

"This book uses rich primary research to develop innovative measures of political engagement that capture considerable diversity in the voting behaviour of rural citizens, and show how they are exploiting political spaces that are opening up as a result of social and economic change. While thes...

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1. Verfasser: Mohmand, Shandana Khan 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press [2019]
Schriftenreihe:South Asia in the social sciences 10
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Zusammenfassung:"This book uses rich primary research to develop innovative measures of political engagement that capture considerable diversity in the voting behaviour of rural citizens, and show how they are exploiting political spaces that are opening up as a result of social and economic change. While these changes have allowed poorer rural voters to gain some strategic advantage vis-à-vis their landlords, they have not yet contributed substantially to the creation of broad constituencies of support for Pakistan's political parties due to the existence of an alternate local political institution - the village level vote bloc. Landed elites organise vote blocs to control village politics, while voters use them to advance their political interests strategically. This makes vote blocs inherently unstable political institutions as both leaders and voters change their behaviour and strategies over time - reacting to one another and to socio-economic changes - and cause shifts to occur in the organisation of rural politics"
Beschreibung:xvii, 298 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781108473637

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