Mobilizing the Marginalized - Ethnic Parties Without Ethnic Movements

In Mobilizing the Marginalized, Amit Ahuja shows how social movements by marginalized ethnic groups - those who are stigmatized by others and disproportionately poor - undermine bloc voting to generate competition for marginalized citizens' votes across political parties.

About the author

Amit Ahuja is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the processes of inclusion and exclusion in multiethnic societies. He has studied this within the context of ethnic parties and movements, military organization, intercaste marriage, and skin color preferences in South Asia. Professor Ahuja's research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute of Indian Studies, the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Hellman Family Foundation, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Michigan.

Summary

In Mobilizing the Marginalized, Amit Ahuja shows how social movements by marginalized ethnic groups - those who are stigmatized by others and disproportionately poor - undermine bloc voting to generate competition for marginalized citizens' votes across political parties.

Additional text

a valuable contribution to the study of South Asian politics.

Product details

• Authors: Amit Ahuja, Amit (Assistant Professor of Political Scie Ahuja
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780190916428
• ISBN: 978-0-19-091642-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Modern South Asia; Modern South Asia
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, International business, Comparative Politics, Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage