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020			_a9780197529515 (paperback)
035			_a20649862
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082	0	0	_a324.25408 _223 _bAHU
100	1		_aAhuja, Amit, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMobilizing the marginalized : _bethnic parties without ethnic movements / _cAmit Ahuja.
250			_aReprinted, _bSouth Asian Edition
264		1	_aIndia; _bOxford University Press, _c[2019]
300			_axxiii, 238 pages : _bmaps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
365			_bRs. 675.00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aMobilization and the marginalized -- Historical Dalit social mobilization -- The effects of historical Dalit social mobilization -- Dalit party performance and bloc voting -- Dalit social mobilization and bloc voting -- How mobilization type shapes Dalit welfare -- The identity trap -- Conclusion : whither Dalit politics?
520			_a"In Dalit Politics, Amit Ahuja uses the Dalit case to develop a powerful new theory of the often orthogonal relationship between social and political mobilization. He argues that when a marginalized ethnic group's social mobilization precedes its electoral mobilization, the marginalized group's ethnic party will perform poorly. This is because any political inclusion won by a marginalized group's movement weakens the ethnic bloc voting required by its ethnic political party to succeed. When Dalit social movements succeed, competition for their votes increases at the local level, which in turn lowers the importance of caste for differentiating among parties. In areas where marginal groups have a tradition of successfully social mobilization, they prefer material goods over symbolic goods--which serves to divvy up party preferences within the group. Yet when Dalit social mobilization is absent or weak, other parties do not compete for them. Without competition for marginalized voters, their voting blocs are preserved. Ironically, marginalized ethnic group parties are more likely to succeed. Ahuja also analyzes the human development outcomes and finds another irony: in the social sphere, caste solidarity improves public goods provision for the marginalized group, but in the electoral sphere, the effects are negative because such parties are weak political clients. Democratically elected officials are less accountable to them. Featuring a powerful research base and a highly original thesis, Mobilizing the Marginalized promises to change how we think about democracy in the developing world"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aDalits _zIndia _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aDalits _xPolitical activity _zIndia.
650		0	_aMarginality, Social _xPolitical aspects _zIndia.
650		0	_aSocial movements _zIndia.
650		0	_aPolitical parties _zIndia.
651		0	_aIndia _xPolitics and government.
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942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c214147 _d214147