Changing bases of Congress support

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Changing bases of Congress support

(Diversity and dominance in Indian politics / editors, Richard Sisson, Ramashray Roy, v. 1)

Sage Publications, 1990

  • : U.S.
  • : India

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"The papers included in this volume [1] derive from an international conference on Comparative Dimensions of Indian Elections and Party Politics held at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in June 1987 ... sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies ... and the Department of Political Science at UCLA"--Pref

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This volume is the first to provide an integrated review of the functioning of the Congress Party in different regions of India and the striking changes which have occurred within the party itself as a consequence of shifts in the political environment over the last three decades.

Table of Contents

Preface PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Congress and the Indian Party System - Richard Sisson and Ramashray Roy PART TWO: ADAPTING TO THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT Factional Conflict and the Congress Dilemma in Rural Maharashtra - B S Baviskar The Congress in the 1980s and Beyond - M P Singh Patterns of Recruitment, Strategies of Mobilisation and Inter-party Alignments Organisational Adaptation of the Congress Party Under Rajiv Gandhi's Leadership - Lloyd I Rudolph and Susanne H Rudolph PART THREE: THE ELECTORATE, CONGRESS AND THE INDIAN PARTY SYSTEM Social Cleavages, Elections and the Indian Party System - Pradeep K Chhibber and John R Petrocik Electoral Support and Party Institutionalisation in Bihar - Harry Blair Congress and the Opposition, 1977-85 Political Integration and Party Competition in Madhya Pradesh - Subrata Mitra Congress and the Opposition in Parliamentary Elections 1977-84 Critical Elections, Contained Volatility and the Indian Electorate - William G Vanderbok PART FOUR: CONGRESS AND THE ELECTORATE Modern Politics in an Indian District - Harold Gould `Natural Selection' and `Selective Co-optation' Patterns of Electoral Perfomance in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka - F D Vakil Patterns of Communal Polarisation and Electoral Support in Punjab - M S Dhami The Context and Case of the 1985 Assembly Election Changing Social Bases of Congress' Political Support in Haryana - Ranbir Singh

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