| Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters: Democracy Under Inequality in Rural Pakistan Contributor(s): Khan Mohmand, Shandana (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108473636 ISBN-13: 9781108473637 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $104.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - General - Political Science | Political Process - Campaigns & Elections |
| Dewey: 324.954 |
| LCCN: 2019335029 |
| Series: South Asia in the Social Sciences |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.15 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How does democracy empower marginalized voters under conditions of inequality? The author probes into this question grounding her research in the context of Pakistan, an emerging democracy whose voters have actively been involved in defining its political history but about whom we know very little. They turn up in sizeable numbers to vote during elections, even under military rule, prompting all kinds of contradictory stereotypes about how Pakistani rural voters behave as electoral cannon fodder. But no one has looked very closely at why they vote as they do, or why they vote at all when their political agency is severely limited by high socio-economic inequality. By using original data collected across different villages and households in rural Pakistan, this book finds that electoral politics enables even the most marginalized voters to strategically further their interests vis- -vis elite groups, but that persistent inequality limits their ability to organize or compete. |
Contributor Bio(s): Khan Mohmand, Shandana: - Shandana Khan Mohmand is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives in Pakistan. Her research and writings explore the fields of political participation, inequality, and the political economy of public policy and service delivery. She has contributed to both policy and social science research in these areas. |
