Re-nationalization of India's Political Party System or Continued Prevalence of Regionalism and Ethnicity? Evidence from the 2009 General Elections

Christophe Jaffrelot; Gilles Verniers

Re-nationalization of India's Political Party System or Continued Prevalence of Regionalism and Ethnicity? Evidence from the 2009 General Elections

Christophe Jaffrelot^*, Gilles Verniers

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King's India Institute

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Abstract

The Congress Party's victory in India's 2009 general elections led to claims of a re-nationalization of the political party system and to increasing issue-based voting. This article demonstrates that, to the contrary, the fragmentation of India's political party system and the electorate is still increasing and that "ethnic voting" continues to prevail over issue-based voting.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1090-1112
Number of pages	23
Journal	Asian Survey
Volume	51
Issue number	6
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

class voting
ethnic voting
General elections
regionalization
regional parties

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