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INDIA AS AN ETHNOCRACY
In: Il politico: rivista italiana di scienze politiche ; rivista quardrimestrale, Band 257, Heft 2, S. 59-75
ISSN: 2239-611X
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Patching development: information politics and social change in India: by Rajesh Veeraraghavan, New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, 256 pp., £80 (hardback), ISBN 9780197567821
In: Commonwealth and comparative politics, Band 60, Heft 4, S. 424-426
ISSN: 1743-9094
The Politics of Claim-Making in India
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 94, Heft 3, S. 567-577
ISSN: 1715-3379
How do Indian citizens access the state? While a standard answer would be "through patronage," three recent books show that clientelism, while important, is just part of the story. Not just passive clients at the mercy of their political patrons, Indian citizens actively engage the
state and their representatives to make claims and secure what is due to them. Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner's Claiming the State—Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India shows how rural dwellers navigate the local government system to access social welfare. Adam Auerbach's
Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums documents how local political workers make claims on behalf of their neighbours and provide their settlements with essential services. Jennifer Bussell's Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness
in Patronage Democracies persuasively demonstrates the importance of higher-level representatives in providing assistance to their constituencies. Together, these books not only demonstrate how political the daily life of ordinary citizens is, but also how the Indian state, while far
from its Weberian ideal, is much more inclusive than previously thought.
The 2019 Indian Elections and the Ruralization of the BJP
In: Studies in Indian politics, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 176-190
ISSN: 2321-7472
The Indian general elections occurred amid a widespread and severe agricultural crisis. Many analysts thought that this could have a substantial impact on the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prospects to remain in office. This article, using post poll data, analyses the voting behaviour of two key sections of the electorate, the rural poor and the farmers. It shows that the BJP drew substantial support from both categories, across caste and class. Far from being a party of the urban upper classes and castes, the results of the 2019 elections mark the culmination of a decades-long process of ruralization and 'proletarianization' of the party.
Book Review: Labour, State and Society in Rural India: A Class-Relational Approach68.1548 PattendenJonathan — Labour, State and Society in Rural India: A Class-Relational Approach (Manchester University Press, 2016). Commonwealth and Comparative Politics55(4), Nov. 2017: 559–560
In: International political science abstracts: IPSA, Band 68, Heft 1, S. 149-149
ISSN: 1751-9292
Labour, state and society in rural India: A class-relational approach
In: Commonwealth and comparative politics, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 559-561
ISSN: 1743-9094
Mrs Gandhi's Legacy, 30 Years On
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 104, Heft 3, S. 357-358
ISSN: 1474-029X
Early Trends and Prospects for Modi's Prime Ministership
In: The international spectator: journal of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 75-92
ISSN: 1751-9721
Early trends and prospects for Modi's prime ministership
In: The international spectator: a quarterly journal of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 75-92
ISSN: 0393-2729
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The Politics of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Andhra Pradesh
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 58, S. 95-105
Indian Institutions in the Early 1980s: The pre-history of the great transformation
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 48, Heft 5, S. 1389-1434
ISSN: 1469-8099
AbstractIn 1989 India's political system underwent a process of profound change which affected the entire institutional setup of the country. Power was radically redistributed—it began to flow from the central government to the states, and from the Prime Minister's Office to the other institutions of the state. By analysing the severe institutional crisis which occurred during Mrs Gandhi's final term in office, this paper seeks to show how state institutions worked on the eve of such a redrawing of India's institutional setup. In addition, an effort is made to link the working of India's institutions to the configuration of the party system, thus stressing the importance of political dynamics in the functioning of parliamentary democracies.
Indian Institutions in the Early 1980s: The pre-history of the great transformation
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 48, Heft 5, S. 1389-1434
ISSN: 0026-749X
Mrs Gandhi's Final Term and the Remaking of the Congress (I)'s Social Base
This article examines the impact that national economic policies adopted during Indira Gandhi's final term in office (1980–84) had on four "national" social groups, namely the big industrialists, the middle class, the rich peasantry, and the poor. The study argues that the Congress (I) chose the former two as its major allies, while the rich peasantry and the poor were relegated to a secondary position. In the process, the focus of India's strategy of development shifted from the agrarian to the industrial sector, and from the rural to the urban world. ; Peer reviewed
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Post-clientelistic initiatives in a patronage democracy: the distributive politics of India's MGNREGA
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 117, S. 239-252
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