Party Competition in Indian States

Electoral Politics in Post-Congress Polity
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-809917-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Ever since the Congress system finally collapsed and the post-Congress polity emerged in 1989, state has arisen as the most crucial terrain at which electoral outcomes are shaped. This book presents analyses of electoral politics in 24 states of India during the period 2008-2013. This period is of great interest because in the post-2004 period, Congress started adapting itself to the compulsions of the post-Congress polity and survive as one of the competitors in electoral politics. In a sense, the period under study here is the period of a stable post-Congress polity. Apart from the parliamentary election of 2009 that brought the Congress-led UPA back to power with an increased strength of the Congress party, this period also witnessed assembly elections in each of the states discussed here. The chapters look both at the Parliamentary election of 2009 and the Assembly election from each state to investigate how the two impact each other and what broader patterns emerge from their interaction. While the all-India picture of competitive politics presented the picture of routineness of electoral competition, many states threw up characteristics of a much more fluid competitive politics. This volume brings out this complex pattern of electoral politics at the state level and seeks to contribute to our understanding of state level political processes by using the rich data set of post-election surveys done by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi over the years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palshikar, Suhas

Suri, K C

Yadav, Yogendra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Acknowledgements

- List of Tables

- List of Abbreviations

- Introduction: Normalization of the 'Post-Congress Polity'

- Suhas Palshikar, K.C. Suri and Yogendra Yadav

- 1: Between fortuna and virtu: Explaining Congress' ambiguous victory in 2009

- Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar

- 2: Modi's Political Craft and Limping Congress

- Ghanshyam Shah and Mahashweta Jani

- 2: Rajasthan: Stable Two-party competition

- Sanjay Lodha

- 4: Punjab: Towards Consolidation of a Bipolar Polity

- Ashutosh Kumar and Jagroop Singh Sekhon

- 5: Congress win reverses the trend of Lok Sabha Elections in Haryana

- Kushal Pal and Praveen Rai

- 6: Himachal Pradesh: Continued Bi-party competition

- Shreyas Sardesai

- 7: 2009 Parliamentary Elections in Jammu and Kashmir

- Rekha Chowdhary

- 8: Delhi Elections: Mandate for Policy Consonance

- Biswajit Mohanty

- 9: Uttarakhand: Resurgence of the Congress

- Annpurna Nautiyal

- 10: Uttar Pradesh: The ebb and flow of party support

- Mirza Asmer Beg, Sudhir Kumar and A.K. Verma

- 11: Bihar: Development finally delivered

- Sanjay Kumar and Rakesh Ranjan

- 12: Permanent Incumbency Shattered: Development dilemma and electoral choice in West Bengal

- Jyotiprasad Chatterjee and Suprio Basu

- 13: Sikkim: A case of dominance of the ruling party

- Banasmita Bora

- 14: Arunachal Pradesh: Ruling Party Syndrome

- Nani Bath

- 15: Nagaland: Electoral Politics amidst Insurgency

- Amongla N. Jamir

- 16: Meghalaya's Fluid Party Alignments

- R.K. Satapathy

- 17: Triumph for Congress in Assam

- Sandhya Goswami

- 18: Jharkhand: Defies the National Trend

- Harishwar Dayal and B. K. Sinha

- 19: Madhya Pradesh: Unexpected Gains for Congress

- Yatindra Singh Sisodia

- 20: Chief Minister Wins Chhattisgarh for BJP

- Anupama Saxena and Pravin Rai

- 21: Survival in the Midst of Decline: A Decade (1999-2009) of Congress Rule in Maharashtra

- Suhas Palshikar, Rajeshwari Deshpande and Nitin Birmal

- 22: Goa: Decline of the North-South Divide?

- Maria Do Ceu Rodrigues

- 23: Karnataka -2008-09: BJP penetrates the South

- Sandeep Shastri and Veena Devi

- 24: Andhra Pradesh: Political shifts and electoral volatility

- K.C. Suri, P. Narasimha Rao and V. Anji Reddy

- 25: Kerala's Electoral Pendulum Swings Back and Forth

- K.M. Sajad Ibrahim

- Appendix I

- Appendix 2

- CIndex

- About the Editors and Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Suhas Palshikar is Professor, Department of Politics & Public Administration, University of Pune. He is also co-director of the Lokniti programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.

K.C. Suri is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad. As a member of the Lokniti team at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, he has been associated with National Election Studies since 1999. As a recipient of the Endeavour Executive Award, Government of Australia, he was a visiting scholar at the School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia during July-October 2010.

Yogendra Yadav is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.