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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... voters will focus on the two strongest parties, since there is only one possible winner (1963). However, this effect ... voter co-ordination on the two leading candidates in a constituency will be imperfect, in particular a lack of ...
... voters opting not to vote for their first preference in favour of a candidate who is in a position to win a seat, an alternative method for concentrating votes on potentially winning candidates is through electoral alliances. Two (or ...
... voter attitudes to coalition membership, and the associated costs/benefits in terms of core party support. Further, if broad party system associations are exchanged for party specific variables, such as the nature of party organisation ...
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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 |