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Why ethnic parties succeed: patronage and ethnic head counts in India

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in camparative politicsPublication details: Cambridge University Press Delhi 2004Description: xxi, 346 pISBN:
  • 9780521608374
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.260954 C4W4
Summary: Why do some ethnic parties succeed in attracting the support of their target ethnic group while others fail? In a world in which ethnic parties flourish in both established and emerging democracies alike, understanding the conditions under which such parties rise and fall is of critical importance to both political scientists and policy makers. Drawing on a study of variation in the performance of ethnic parties in India, this book builds a theory of ethnic party performance in 'patronage democracies'. Chandra shows why individual voters and political entrepreneurs in such democracies condition their strategies not on party ideologies or policy platforms, but on a headcount of co-ethnics and others across party personnel and among the electorate. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521814522
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Table of contents:

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

Why do some ethnic parties succeed in attracting the support of their target ethnic group while others fail? In a world in which ethnic parties flourish in both established and emerging democracies alike, understanding the conditions under which such parties rise and fall is of critical importance to both political scientists and policy makers. Drawing on a study of variation in the performance of ethnic parties in India, this book builds a theory of ethnic party performance in 'patronage democracies'. Chandra shows why individual voters and political entrepreneurs in such democracies condition their strategies not on party ideologies or policy platforms, but on a headcount of co-ethnics and others across party personnel and among the electorate.


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