Why Regional Parties?
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Why Regional Parties?

Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System

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Why Regional Parties?

Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System

About this book

Today, regional parties in India win nearly as many votes as national parties. In Why Regional Parties?, Professor Adam Ziegfeld questions the conventional wisdom that regional parties in India are electorally successful because they harness popular grievances and benefit from strong regional identities. He draws on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative evidence from over eighteen months of field research to demonstrate that regional parties are, in actuality, successful because they represent expedient options for office-seeking politicians. By focusing on clientelism, coalition government, and state-level factional alignments, Ziegfeld explains why politicians in India find membership in a regional party appealing. He therefore accounts for the remarkable success of India's regional parties and, in doing so, outlines how party systems take root and evolve in democracies where patronage, vote buying, and machine politics are common.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Further Information and Terminological Notes
  11. Indian Party Acronyms
  12. 1 Introduction
  13. 2 Definitions and Description: Regional Political Parties in India
  14. 3 Theory: Clientelism, Elites, and Regional Parties
  15. 4 Evidence: Elites and Regional Party Success in India
  16. 5 Cross-National Variation: Clientelism and Institutions
  17. 6 India’s Successful Regional Parties: The Costs of Building National Parties
  18. 7 Longitudinal Variation in India: Coalition Government and the Rise of Regional Parties
  19. 8 Subnational Variation in India: Factional Sorting and Elite Divisions
  20. 9 Conclusion
  21. References
  22. Index