Promise of Power - The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan

An examination of how, despite similar historical contexts, India became a stable democracy post-independence, whilst Pakistan became an unstable autocracy.

List of contents

1. How India institutionalised democracy and Pakistan promoted autocracy; 2. The social origins of pro- and anti- democratic movements (1885-1919); 3. Imagining and institutionalizing new nations (1919-47); 4. Organizing alliances (1919-47); 5. Freedom at midnight and divergent democracies (1947-58); 6. The institutionalization of alliances in India, Pakistan, and beyond.

About the author

Maya Tudor is a Fellow in Politics at St John's College, Oxford. Her dissertation, upon which this book is based, won the American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics.

Summary

Under what conditions are some developing countries able to create stable democracies while others are perpetually prone to instability and authoritarianism? In The Promise of Power, Maya Tudor proposes a new understanding of the regime divergence between India and Pakistan following their twin independences in 1947.

Product details

• Authors: Maya Tudor, Maya (University of Oxford) Tudor, Tudor Maya
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.2017
• EAN: 9781316635247
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63524-7
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Pakistan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, International Relations, India, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Political structure and processes, Political structures / systems: democracy