| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
01578 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781108473637 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
320.95491 |
| Item number |
MOH-C |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mohmand, Shandana Khan |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters |
| Sub Title |
: democracy under inequality in rural Pakistan |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year of publication |
2019 |
| Place of publication |
Cambridge |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
xvii, 298p. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Include Bibliography and Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
How does democracy empower marginalized voters under conditions of inequality? The author probes into this question grounding her research in the context of Pakistan, an emerging democracy whose voters have actively been involved in defining its political history but about whom we know very little. They turn up in sizeable numbers to vote during elections, even under military rule, prompting all kinds of contradictory stereotypes about how Pakistani rural voters behave as electoral cannon fodder. But no one has looked very closely at why they vote as they do, or why they vote at all when their political agency is severely limited by high socio-economic inequality. By using original data collected across different villages and households in rural Pakistan, this book finds that electoral politics enables even the most marginalized voters to strategically further their interests vis-à-vis elite groups, but that persistent inequality limits their ability to organize or compete. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Political Participation |
| Form subdivision |
Democracy |
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Politics and Government |
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Equality |
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Local Government |
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Representative Government and Representation |
| Geographic subdivision |
Pakistan |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
