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  • The Formation of National Party Systems

    Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States

    by Pradeep Chhibber, Kenneth Kollman ...
    Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman rely on historical data spanning back to the eighteenth century from Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States to revise our understanding of why a country's party system consists of national or regional parties. They demonstrate that the party systems in these four countries have been shaped by the authority granted to different levels of government. ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Righteous Demagogues

    Populist Politics in South Asia and Beyond

    by Adnan Naseemullah, Pradeep Chhibber ...
    Righteous Demagogues explores the causes, dynamics, and consequences of populist politics in South Asia and beyond. It argues that populist mobilizations are rooted in crises of representation, and populism is a symptom not an underlying cause of democratic malaise. Populist leaders, in framing their appeals, evoke the moral contract--that states are obligated to redress certain types of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • India Tomorrow 

    Conversations with the Next Generation of Political Leaders

    by Pradeep Chhibber, Harsh Shah ...
    The next generation of political leaders will determine India's future. We know their names, but not what lies behind what we hear or see of them in the event/news-focussed coverage in newspapers and television channels. For instance, what moves them? Who inspires them? What are their passions and interests outside of politics? Where do they stand on some of India’s most contentious political ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Religious Practice and Democracy in India

    by Pradeep K. Chhibber ...
    This book demonstrates the close relationship between religion and democracy in India. Religious practice creates ties among citizens that can generate positive and democratic political outcomes. In pursuing this line of inquiry the book questions a dominant strand in some contemporary social sciences - that a religious denomination (Catholic, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and so on) is sufficient to ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Ideology and Identity

    The Changing Party Systems of India

    by Pradeep K. Chhibber, Rahul Verma ...
    Indian party politics, commonly viewed as chaotic, clientelistic, and corrupt, is nevertheless a model for deepening democracy and accommodating diversity. Historically, though, observers have argued that Indian politics is non-ideological in nature. In contrast, Pradeep Chhibber and Rahul Verma contend that the Western European paradigm of "ideology" is not applicable to many contemporary ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Democracy without Associations

    Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India

    by Pradeep K. Chhibber ...
    Series series Interests, Identities, And Institutions In Comparative Politics
    India's party system has undergone a profound transformation over the last decade. The Congress Party, a catch-all party that brought independence in 1947 and governed India for much of the period since then, no longer dominates the electoral scene. Political parties which draw support from particular caste and religious groups are now more powerful than ever before. Democracy Without Associations ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Economy, Politics and Society

    by Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Politics Today
    Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy in the world before the middle of this century. ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Diaspora, Development, and Democracy

    The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India

    by Devesh Kapur ...
    What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries.Devesh Kapur finds that migration has influenced India far beyond a ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Understanding India's New Political Economy

    A Great Transformation?

    Edited by Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge ...
    A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations.Filling a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Reinventing India

    Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy

    by Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss ...
    When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development. Nehru's India never quite fulfilled this promise, but more recently his vision of India has been challenged by two "revolts of the elites": those of economic liberalization and Hindu nationalism. These revolts ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

  • Democracy against Development

    Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

    by Jeffrey Witsoe ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy against Development, Jeffrey Witsoe investigates this counter-narrative, uncovering an antagonistic ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Poverty amid Plenty in the New India

    by Atul Kohli ...
    India has one of the fastest growing economies on earth. Over the past three decades, socialism has been replaced by pro-business policies as the way forward. And yet, in this 'new' India, grinding poverty is still a feature of everyday life. Some 450 million people subsist on less than $1.25 per day and nearly half of India's children are malnourished. In his latest book, Atul Kohli, a seasoned ... Read more

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