Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters
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Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters

Democracy under Inequality in Rural Pakistan

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Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters

Democracy under Inequality in Rural Pakistan

About this book

How does democracy empower marginalized voters under conditions of inequality? The author probes into this question grounding her research in the context of Pakistan, an emerging democracy whose voters have actively been involved in defining its political history but about whom we know very little. They turn up in sizeable numbers to vote during elections, even under military rule, prompting all kinds of contradictory stereotypes about how Pakistani rural voters behave as electoral cannon fodder. But no one has looked very closely at why they vote as they do, or why they vote at all when their political agency is severely limited by high socio-economic inequality. By using original data collected across different villages and households in rural Pakistan, this book finds that electoral politics enables even the most marginalized voters to strategically further their interests vis-à-vis elite groups, but that persistent inequality limits their ability to organize or compete.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Tables and Figures
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Glossary of Local Terms
  10. 1. Introduction: Rural Voters under Inequality in an Emerging Democracy
  11. 2. Colonial Constructs and Post-colonial Politics: 1849–2018
  12. 3. Landed Power in Sahiwal: From Domination to Intermediation
  13. 4. Local Competition and Bargaining Power: Conceptualising Political Engagement in Rural Punjab
  14. 5. Bargaining with Landlords: Comparing Political Engagement in Unequal Contexts
  15. 6. Structural Inequality and Variations in Political Engagement
  16. 7. When Do Shifts in Political Engagement Occur?
  17. 8. Conclusion: The Future of Pakistan’s Democracy
  18. Annex 1: Chronology of Political Events in Pakistan
  19. Annex 2: Index of Political Engagement (IPE) Scores for 38 Villages
  20. Annex 3: Research Instruments
  21. Annex 4: Detailed Descriptions of Household Variables Used in Multivariate Regression Analysis (in Chapter 6)
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index