Elite Parties, Poor Voters - How Social Services Win Votes in India

Informationen zum Autor Tariq Thachil is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University, Connecticut. Thachil's doctoral dissertation received the 2010 Gabriel A. Almond Award for best dissertation in the field of comparative politics from the American Political Science Association and the 2010 Sardar Patel Award for best dissertation on modern India in the humanities, education, fine arts, or social sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Contemporary South Asia, and World Politics. Klappentext This book analyzes how the paradox of the poor often voting against their material interests emerged in India. Zusammenfassung Why do poor people often vote against their material interests? This puzzle has been famously studied within wealthy Western democracies! yet the fact that the poor voter paradox also routinely manifests within poor countries has remained unexplored. This book studies how this paradox emerged in India! the world's largest democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. An elite party's struggles with poor voters; 3. Why rich and poor voters support an elite party in India; 4. Why an elite party turned to service; 5. How service wins votes; 6. When service fails: the impact of rival strategies; 7. The argument in comparative perspective; 8. Conclusion; Appendix A. Variables, sources, and summary statistics; Appendix B. Additional tables and figures; Appendix C. Supplemental survey information; Appendix D. List of information in online supplement.

Product details

• Authors: Tariq Thachil, Tariq (Yale University Thachil, Thachil Tariq
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781107678446
• ISBN: 978-1-107-67844-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, India, Political corruption, Political science & theory, Political structure & processes, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Social welfare and social services, Political Control & Freedoms, Development economics and emerging economies, Regional government