{"product_id":"why-ethnic-parties-succeed-patronage-and-ethnic-head-counts-in-india-hardback-9780521814522","title":"Why Ethnic Parties Succeed; Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India (Hardback) 9780521814522","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhy Ethnic Parties Succeed\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePatronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOffers a theory on the performance of ethnic political parties as a distinct phenomenon.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKanchan Chandra (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521814522, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 March 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 17 b\/w illus.  7 maps  39 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.8 cm, 0.644 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'In explaining why some ethnic parties succeed while others fail, Kanchan Chandra makes an important contribution to our understanding of ethnicity in politics. By highlighting the interaction of group size and internal party rules in a context characterized by the kind of information constraints inherent in patronage democracies, she provides a nover microfoundation for ethnic politics in competitive democracies. In addition, her book sets a new benchmark on how to combine abstract thinking and rich analysis.' Stathis N. Kalyvas, Yale University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of maps\u003cbr\u003e figures, and tables\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e A note on terminology\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Theory: 2. Limited information and ethnic categorization\u003cbr\u003e 3. Patronage-democracy, limited information and ethnic favouritism\u003cbr\u003e 4. Counting heads: why ethnic parties succeed in patronage-democracies\u003cbr\u003e 5. Why parties have different ethnic head counts: party organization and elite incorporation\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Data: 6. India as a patronage-democracy\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Scheduled Castes (SCs)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Why SC elites join the BSP\u003cbr\u003e 9. Why SC voters prefer the BSP\u003cbr\u003e 10. Why SC voter preferences translate into BSP votes\u003cbr\u003e 11. Explaining different head counts in the BSP and congress\u003cbr\u003e 12. Extending the argument to other ethnic parties in India: the BJP, the DMK and the JMM\u003cbr\u003e 13. Ethnic head counts and democratic stability\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political structures: democracy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political structures: democracy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20structures:%20democracy%20%5BJPHV%5D%22\"\u003eJPHV\u003c\/a\u003e], Political structure \u0026amp; processes [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political structure \u0026amp; processes\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20structure%20\u0026amp;%20processes%20%5BJPH%5D%22\"\u003eJPH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265142640920,"sku":"9780521814522","price":80.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521814522i.jpg?v=1692019881","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/why-ethnic-parties-succeed-patronage-and-ethnic-head-counts-in-india-hardback-9780521814522","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}