Add to ORKGThe dissertation will address the ongoing debate in Comparative Politics about the virtues and pathologies of rational choice theory by testing competing hypotheses and predictions to account for three aspects of party politics in India: the transformation of the Indian political party system from a predominant to an even multiparty system; the politics of government formation; and the politics of government stability. Overall, the dissertation will pursue two arguments. First, rational choice models and predictions can account for the empirical cases more consistently than hypotheses and predictions derived from other paradigms. Second, by using India as the case on which to test competing theories, it will be shown that non-Wester...
India is going through a solid test as of late and dangers radiate inside India in the way of dissen...
Indian democracy has often been characterized as "a puzzle" that "defies theories". But any theory o...
International audienceElection studies (which are here defined as scholarly work focusing on the maj...
Party systems have important political, social, and economic consequences in a polity. This book ana...
In the study of electoral politics and political behavior in the developing world, India is often co...
Focussing on India, this thesis examines whether long-term 'social structural' determinants of vote ...
In countries in which one political party is dominant, attention naturally centers on that party. Th...
In the decades following WWII, countries across the globe witnessed the rise of anti-system parties....
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2009.Cataloged f...
This paper is a preliminary attempt to understand a simple puzzle about the Indian voter: Why does a...
The Thesis is focusing on democracy in divided societies, especially on the case of India. It is pre...
Since their emergence in the late nineteenth century, political parties and party systems have been ...
The party political domain of India is replete with a large number of parties representing the tapes...
The Indian political system is an interesting case of a transplanted Western multi-party democracy f...
The national party system of India has undergone a major transform-ation since the 1989 elections. T...
India is going through a solid test as of late and dangers radiate inside India in the way of dissen...
Indian democracy has often been characterized as "a puzzle" that "defies theories". But any theory o...
International audienceElection studies (which are here defined as scholarly work focusing on the maj...
Party systems have important political, social, and economic consequences in a polity. This book ana...
In the study of electoral politics and political behavior in the developing world, India is often co...
Focussing on India, this thesis examines whether long-term 'social structural' determinants of vote ...
In countries in which one political party is dominant, attention naturally centers on that party. Th...
In the decades following WWII, countries across the globe witnessed the rise of anti-system parties....
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2009.Cataloged f...
This paper is a preliminary attempt to understand a simple puzzle about the Indian voter: Why does a...
The Thesis is focusing on democracy in divided societies, especially on the case of India. It is pre...
Since their emergence in the late nineteenth century, political parties and party systems have been ...
The party political domain of India is replete with a large number of parties representing the tapes...
The Indian political system is an interesting case of a transplanted Western multi-party democracy f...
The national party system of India has undergone a major transform-ation since the 1989 elections. T...
India is going through a solid test as of late and dangers radiate inside India in the way of dissen...
Indian democracy has often been characterized as "a puzzle" that "defies theories". But any theory o...
International audienceElection studies (which are here defined as scholarly work focusing on the maj...