Why Ethnic Parties Succeed

Klappentext Offers a theory on the performance of ethnic political parties as a distinct phenomenon. Zusammenfassung Why do some ethnic parties succeed in attracting the support of their target ethnic group while others fail? Drawing on a study of variation in the performance of four ethnic parties in India! this book builds a theory of ethnic party performance in 'patronage democracies'. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of maps; figures, and tables; List of abbreviations; A note on terminology; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part I. Theory: 2. Limited information and ethnic categorization; 3. Patronage-democracy, limited information and ethnic favouritism; 4. Counting heads: why ethnic parties succeed in patronage-democracies; 5. Why parties have different ethnic head counts: party organization and elite incorporation; Part II. Data: 6. India as a patronage-democracy; 7. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Scheduled Castes (SCs); 8. Why SC elites join the BSP; 9. Why SC voters prefer the BSP; 10. Why SC voter preferences translate into BSP votes; 11. Explaining different head counts in the BSP and congress; 12. Extending the argument to other ethnic parties in India: the BJP, the DMK and the JMM; 13. Ethnic head counts and democratic stability; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Kanchan Chandra
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2004
• EAN: 9780521814522
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81452-2
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education