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Informationen zum Autor Suhas Palshikar is Professor, Department of Politics & Public Administration, University of Pune. He is also co-director of the Lokniti programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. K.C. Suri is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad. As a member of the Lokniti team at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, he has been associated with National Election Studies since 1999. As a recipient of the Endeavour Executive Award, Government of Australia, he was a visiting scholar at the School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia during July-October 2010.Yogendra Yadav is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. Klappentext This volume presents the picture of competitive politics in as many as 24 states of India. It addresses the issue of relationship between parliamentary election and assembly election as it evolved during 2008-2013. Making the best use of the National Election Study of 2009, the chapters in the book open before the reader the different patterns of party competition at the state level. The main objective of the book is to contribute to the understanding of electoral politics in Indian states. Zusammenfassung Ever since the Congress system finally collapsed and the post-Congress polity emerged in 1989, state has arisen as the most crucial terrain at which electoral outcomes are shaped. This book presents analyses of electoral politics in 24 states of India during the period 2008-2013. This period is of great interest because in the post-2004 period, Congress started adapting itself to the compulsions of the post-Congress polity and survive as one of the competitors in electoral politics. In a sense, the period under study here is the period of a stable post-Congress polity. Apart from the parliamentary election of 2009 that brought the Congress-led UPA back to power with an increased strength of the Congress party, this period also witnessed assembly elections in each of the states discussed here. The chapters look both at the Parliamentary election of 2009 and the Assembly election from each state to investigate how the two impact each other and what broader patterns emerge from their interaction. While the all-India picture of competitive politics presented the picture of routineness of electoral competition, many states threw up characteristics of a much more fluid competitive politics. This volume brings out this complex pattern of electoral politics at the state level and seeks to contribute to our understanding of state level political processes by using the rich data set of post-election surveys done by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi over the years. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction: Normalization of the 'Post-Congress Polity' Suhas Palshikar, K.C. Suri and Yogendra Yadav 1: Between fortuna and virtu: Explaining Congress' ambiguous victory in 2009 Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar 2: Modi's Political Craft and Limping Congress Ghanshyam Shah and Mahashweta Jani 2: Rajasthan: Stable Two-party competition Sanjay Lodha 4: Punjab: Towards Consolidation of a Bipolar Polity Ashutosh Kumar and Jagroop Singh Sekhon 5: Congress win reverses the trend of Lok Sabha Elections in Haryana Kushal Pal and Praveen Rai 6: Himachal Pradesh: Continued Bi-party competition Shreyas Sardesai 7: 2009 Parliamentary Elections in Jammu and Kashmir Rekha Chowdhary 8: Delhi Elections: Mandate for Policy Consonance Biswajit Mohanty 9: Uttarakhand: Resurgence of the Congress Annpurna Nautiyal 10: Uttar Pradesh: The ebb and flow of party support Mirza Asmer Beg, Sudhir Kumar and A.K. Verma 11: Bihar: Development finally delivered Sanjay Ku...
