Towards a More Competitive Party System in India

Joshi, Ram Kishor; Desai, Kirtidev

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“…Joshi and Desai (1978) also saw this as a major factor influencing the election outcome. Klieman (1981: 243) also views this unification of the opposition as an important factor influencing voters' choices.…”

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“…Finally, the importance of the 1977 Lok Sabha election itself lies in the consequences that these elections had for the Gandhi government and for the restructuring of the political system at large (Joshi and Desai, 1978). Not only did the elections signal the end of an illiberal experiment, they also produced an unexpected change in the composition of the government at the time.…”

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Democratic Backlash? Revisiting Competing Explanations for the 1977 Post-Emergency Electoral Verdict in India

Pehl

2008

Asian Journal of Political Science

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Democratic Backlash? Revisiting Competing Explanations for the 1977 Post-Emergency Electoral Verdict in India

Pehl

2008

Asian Journal of Political Science

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“…In the elections of 1971 Mrs. Gandhi was able to stabilize her position with a distinct anti‐poverty campaign ( Garibi Hatao – remove poverty; Kothari 1972; Kurien 1972; Ranadive 1973; Joshi and Desai 1978), but in the following years social polarization and dissatisfaction weakened Indira Gandhi's Government further (Banerjee 1973; Klieman 1981; Kothari 1988; Prasad 1991; Prashad 1996).…”

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Economic reform, social development and conflict in India

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2012

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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The paper elaborates on changing economic paradigms in India over the past six decades that finally led to structural adjustment in 1991. The paper investigates how economic reforms failed to resolve social challenges in India. From the mid‐1960s, when Congress dominance in independent India was challenged for the first time economic crisis and political instability have been closely related, at times bringing the country close to a civil war. Today however, India is seen as doing very well, despite increasing unemployment, enormous subsidies and masses of extremely poor people living surrounded by increasingly affluent middle classes. In the past economic crisis and political instability were closely related. Urban based industrialization had often caused resistance that mainly came from rural India at various junctures in India's recent economic history. Removing poverty, and here in particular rural poverty, would allow India's economy to further expand. However if social polarization further widens, if masses of poor remain excluded from economic success, social dissatisfaction will further enhance insecurity and violence intensifying political instability and insecurity of the entire Asian region. Resumen. Este artículo trata en detalle los cambios en los paradigmas económicos de la India acaecidos durante las últimas seis décadas y que llevaron a un ajuste estructural en 1991. El artículo investiga cómo las reformas económicas no han logrado resolver los problemas sociales en la India. La crisis económica y la inestabilidad política han estado estrechamente relacionadas desde mediados de la década de 1960, cuando el dominio del Congreso en una India ya independiente se puso en duda por primera vez, y a veces llevando al país al borde de una guerra civil. Hoy en día, sin embargo, se considera que la India está atravesando un buen momento, a pesar del aumento del desempleo, los enormes subsidios y las muchedumbres que viven en una pobreza extrema, rodeadas de una clase media cada vez más pudiente. En el pasado, la crisis económica y la inestabilidad política estaban estrechamente relacionadas. La industrialización de carácter urbano había provocado a menudo resistencia, proveniente principalmente de la India rural durante momentos puntuales de la historia económica reciente del país. La eliminación de la pobreza, y en particular para este artículo la pobreza rural, permitiría a la economía de la India el poder expandirse en mayor medida. Sin embargo, si la polarización social continua en aumento, y si las masas viviendo en extrema pobreza siguen excluidas de este boom económico, el descontento social causará un aumento en la inseguridad y la violencia, e intensificará la inestabilidad política y la inseguridad de toda la región asiática.

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Politik: Die Parteien

Malhotra

1990

Indien: Wirtschaft, Verfassung, Politik

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Towards a More Competitive Party System in India

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Democratic Backlash? Revisiting Competing Explanations for the 1977 Post-Emergency Electoral Verdict in India

Democratic Backlash? Revisiting Competing Explanations for the 1977 Post-Emergency Electoral Verdict in India

Economic reform, social development and conflict in India

Politik: Die Parteien

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