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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... institutional and external dimensions of Indian politics. He is the co-editor (with John Zavos) of Decentring the Indian Nation (Frank Cass, 2003) and co-editor (with Vernon Hewitt and John Zavos) of The Politics of Cultural ...
... institutional incentives to achieve moderation in ethnically divided societies argues, '[t]here is abundant evidence on all fronts that durable multiethnic parties and coalitions are rare exceptions where ethnic divisions are sharp ...
... 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 changed, but the ...
... institutional arrangements for electing a government. That the specialists on this subject disagree as to the specific electoral mechanism to achieve compromise does not detract from its possibility (Lijphart 1990; Horowitz 1991 ...
... institutional structure, the nature of the party system which has evolved, and the ideological context in which political parties operate. The approach taken in this chapter owes much to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's Strategy, Risk and ...
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 |