Description: Further DetailsTitle: Elite Parties, Poor VotersCondition: NewSubtitle: How Social Services Win Votes in IndiaEAN: 9781107678446ISBN: 9781107678446Publisher: Cambridge University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/04/2016Description: Why do poor people often vote against their material interests? This puzzle has been famously studied within wealthy Western democracies, yet the fact that the poor voter paradox also routinely manifests within poor countries has remained unexplored. This book studies how this paradox emerged in India, the world's largest democracy. Tariq Thachil shows how arguments from studies of wealthy democracies (such as moral values voting) and the global south (such as patronage or ethnic appeals) cannot explain why poor voters in poor countries support parties that represent elite policy interests. He instead draws on extensive survey data and fieldwork to document a novel strategy through which elite parties can recruit the poor, while retaining the rich. He shows how these parties can win over disadvantaged voters by privately providing them with basic social services via grassroots affiliates. Such outsourcing permits the party itself to continue to represent the policy interests of their privileged base.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 153mmItem Width: 22mmItem Weight: 550gAuthor: Tariq ThachilGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Business & FinanceBook Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative PoliticsRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Elite Parties, Poor Voters
Title: Elite Parties, Poor Voters
Subtitle: How Social Services Win Votes in India
EAN: 9781107678446
ISBN: 9781107678446
Release Date: 08/04/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Business & Finance
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Elite Parties, Poor Voters : How Social Services Win Votes in India
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Political Process / General, Political Economy, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Political Process / Political Parties
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.4 Oz
Author: Tariq Thachil
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
