Maya Tudor

The Promise of Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of how, despite similar historical contexts, India became a stable democracy post-independence, whilst Pakistan became an unstable autocracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781107032965
• ISBN-10: 1107032962
• Artikelnr.: 36958602

Autorenporträt

Maya Tudor is a Fellow in Politics at St John's College, Oxford. Her dissertation, upon which this book is based, won the American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. How India institutionalised democracy and Pakistan promoted autocracy; 2. The social origins of pro
and anti
democratic movements (1885
1919); 3. Imagining and institutionalizing new nations (1919
47); 4. Organizing alliances (1919
47); 5. Freedom at midnight and divergent democracies (1947
58); 6. The institutionalization of alliances in India, Pakistan, and beyond.