Why Ethnic Parties Succeed, Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India

Abstract

List of maps figures, and tables List of abbreviations A note on terminology Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I. Theory: 2. Limited information and ethnic categorization 3. Patronage-democracy, limited information and ethnic favouritism 4. Counting heads: why ethnic parties succeed in patronage-democracies 5. Why parties have different ethnic head counts: party organization and elite incorporation Part II. Data: 6. India as a patronage-democracy 7. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Scheduled Castes (SCs) 8. Why SC elites join the BSP 9. Why SC voters prefer the BSP 10. Why SC voter preferences translate into BSP votes 11. Explaining different head counts in the BSP and congress 12. Extending the argument to other ethnic parties in India: the BJP, the DMK and the JMM 13. Ethnic head counts and democratic stability Appendices Bibliography Index.

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