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    Ideology and Identity by Chhibber, Pradeep K.; Verma, Rahul;

    The Changing Party Systems of India

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 8 November 2018

    • ISBN 9780190623883
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages336 pages
    • Size 155x231x20 mm
    • Weight 476 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 50 illustrations
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    Short description:

    Ideology and Identity shows that party politics and elections in India are a contest of ideas. Using survey data from the Indian National Election Studies (NES) and survey experiments from smaller but more focused studies, the book shows that Indian electoral politics, as represented by political parties, their members, and their voters, is in fact marked by deep ideological cleavages.

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    Long description:

    Indian party politics, commonly viewed as chaotic, clientelistic, and corrupt, is nevertheless a model for deepening democracy and accommodating diversity. Historically, though, observers have argued that Indian politics is non-ideological in nature. In contrast, Pradeep Chhibber and Rahul Verma contend that the Western European paradigm of "ideology" is not applicable to many contemporary multiethnic countries. In these more diverse states, the most important ideological debates center on statism-the extent to which the state should dominate and regulate society-and recognition-whether and how the state should accommodate various marginalized groups and protect minority rights from majorities. Using survey data from the Indian National Election Studies and evidence from the Constituent Assembly debates, they show how education, the media, and religious practice transmit the competing ideas that lie at the heart of ideological debates in India.

    This book will be useful to students and scholars interested in understanding the intellectual lineages of the issues that concern political parties in India today, and the Indian party system. It is well organized and the proofreading is good

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements
    List of Tables and Graphs
    Introduction: Ideology in India's Electoral Politics
    Chapter 1. State Formation and Ideological Conflict in Multiethnic Countries
    Chapter 2. Ideology, Identity, and the 2014 National Elections
    Chapter 3. Intellectual Lineages of the Politics of Statism and Recognition
    Chapter 4. Who Opposes Reservations and Why?
    Chapter 5. The Myth of Vote Buying in India
    Chapter 6. Transformational Leaders and Ideological Shifts
    Chapter 7. Transmitting Ideology
    Chapter 8. Statism, Recognition, and the Party System Change in India
    Chapter 9. Ideological Challenges and the Decline of the Congress Party
    Chapter 10. The BJP and an Ideological Consolidation of the Right?
    Conclusion: Ideas, Leaders, and Party Systems
    Appendix
    Bibliography
    Index

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