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Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India - Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Thachil, Tariq (Yale University, Connecticut)
Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India - Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Thachil, Tariq (Yale University, Connecticut)
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.
352 pages, 28 b/w illus. 1 map 24 tables
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 17, 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9781107070080 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 176 × 237 × 21 mm · 589 g |
Language | English |