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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... leader should seek a coalition which is '(1) winning, (2) minimally so, (3) able to cover median policy space, (4) ideologically connected and closed, and (5) expected to pay off partners by the proportionality rule'. These central ...
... leaders are invited to form governments. Where a party emerges from an election with an overall majority this is a straightforward task, but in the case of a hung parliament it can be more controversial. The expectation is that the ...
... leaders when entering negotiations over coalition formation: These goals include the desire to retain the leadership, to The BJP coalition 19.
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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 |