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Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India

摘要：

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 develops a theory of ethnic party performance in "patronage democracies"--a family of democracies with distinct patterns of political behavior. The book offers an original theory on the performance of ethnic political parties as well as a new interpretation of Indian democracy. Demonstrating the connection between India's state-dominated economy and the behavior of its voters and politician, it includes an extensive study of the Bahujan Samaj Party and contemporary ethnic politics in India.