By Siegfried O. Wolf, Jivanta Schöttli, Dominik Frommherz, Kai Fürstenberg, Marian Gallenkamp, Lion König, Markus Pauli
The ebook introduces important topics that experience preoccupied the sector of South Asian politics over the past few many years and identifies new, rising components of study. providing either normal political concept and context-specific case reports, the gathering attracts recognition to the methodological demanding situations of engaged on an area-specific subject and the significance of producing generalizable insights associated with thought. as a result it will likely be of curiosity for political scientists engaged on South Asian politics in addition to on different non-Western societies. the gathering represents an strangely extensive survey of scholarship rising from more than a few prime educational centres within the field.
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Wolf et al. 1007/978-3-319-09087-0_1 3 4 H. Bhattacharyya sustainability of democracy the world over. g. in India and Bangladesh) and the formation of new form of parties (Palshikar 2013: 10–13) throw fresh questions about the efficacy of political parties for democracy in South Asia. Our inquiry is pursued with reference to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) which remains the most powerful communist party in India, and governed until 2011 three states of the Indian federation—West Bengal for over 34 years since 1977 (uninterruptedly); Kerala intermittently since 1957; and Tripura (India’s North-East) since 1978 except during 1988–1993.
4a. Responsiveness of party system polarization to voter dispersion will be greater in SMD system. In the great majority of our countries parties of the Social Democratic family have strong voter support. In about half of them, including all the SMD countries, parties of the Conservative party family also have strong support. We have seen that on average the Social Democratic parties offer manifesto appeals predominantly on the left of the ideological continuum, while the average Conservative party manifesto is predominantly on the right.