Coalition Politics and Hindu NationalismKatharine Adeney, Lawrence Saez This new collection examines the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India and the ways in which its Hindu nationalist agenda has been affected by the constraints of being a dominant member of a coalition government. |
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... Change in India: A Cross-sectional Analysis of the National Electorate (Sage, 1999) and author of Culture and Rationality: The Politics of Social Change in Post-colonial India (Sage, 1999) and The Puzzle of India's Governance: Culture ...
... changes in land and agrarian relations, livelihood strategies, equity issues in education policies and delivery ... change in the societal, institutional and external dimensions of Indian politics. He is the co-editor (with John Zavos) ...
... change in political institutions or a change in the configuration of the policy space could lead to changes in coalition politics. In India, unlike Italy (one of Mershon's principal case studies), the institutional setting has not ...
... change meant that the largest party had less influence as a formateur of a working coalition.2 The change in the interpretation of the President's role in coalition government formation illustrates the contingent effect of institutions ...
... change a minority of the vote into a majority of seats. Opposition to the INC tended to be divided between a number of alternative parties, mainly with a regionally confined support base. The decline of the INC exposed the fractured ...
Contents
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2 The shapes of Hindu nationalism | 36 |
3 In part a myth | 55 |
Part II Domestic governance | 75 |
4 The NDA and the politics of minorities in India | 77 |
5 Hindu nationalists and federal structures in an era of regionalism | 97 |
6 Social justice and empowerment of the weaker sections and gender rights | 116 |
Part III External factors | 171 |
9 The NDA and the politics of economic reform | 173 |
10 The NDA and Indian foreign policy | 193 |
11 The NDA and national security | 212 |
12 The BJP and the 2004 general election | 237 |
13 Hindutvas march halted? Choices for the BJP after the 2004 defeat | 254 |
Bibliography | 264 |
Index | 289 |
7 Managing the anticorruption rhetoric | 136 |
8 Indian education policy under the NDA government | 153 |