Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements

Awards:   Winner of Winner of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Prize for best non-fiction from the New India Foundation.
Author:   Amit Ahuja (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC-Santa Barbara)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780190916428


Pages:   266
Publication Date:   12 August 2019
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of Winner of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Prize for best non-fiction from the New India Foundation.

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"India's over 200 million Dalits, once called ""untouchables,"" have been mobilized by social movements and political parties, but the outcomes of this mobilization are puzzling. Dalits' ethnic parties have performed poorly in elections in states where movements demanding social equality have been strong while they have succeeded in states where such movements have been entirely absent or weak. In Mobilizing the Marginalized, Amit Ahuja demonstrates that the collective action of marginalized groups--those that are historically stigmatized and disproportionately poor ED is distinct. Drawing on extensive original research conducted across four of India's largest states, he shows, for the marginalized, social mobilization undermines the bloc voting their ethnic parties' rely on for electoral triumph and increases multi-ethnic political parties' competition for marginalized votes. He presents evidence showing that a marginalized group gains more from participating in a social movement and dividing support among parties than from voting as a bloc for an ethnic party."

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Author:   Amit Ahuja (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC-Santa Barbara)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.528kg
ISBN:  

9780190916428


ISBN 10:   0190916427
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   12 August 2019
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Amit Ahuja is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the processes of inclusion and exclusion in multiethnic societies. He has studied this within the context of ethnic parties and movements, military organization, intercaste marriage, and skin color preferences in South Asia. Professor Ahuja's research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute of Indian Studies, the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Hellman Family Foundation, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Michigan.

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