Banerjee, Mukulika (2010) A left front election. In: Heath, Anthony and Jeffery, Roger, (eds.) Diversity and Change in Modern India: Economic, Social and Political Approaches. Proceedings of the British Academy (159). OUP/ British Academy, Oxford, UK, pp. 243-266. ISBN 9780197264515
Abstract
This chapter provides an electoral ethnography of a campaign in the state of West Bengal. The uniquely continuous electoral victories of the Left Front since 1977 in this eastern state of India throws up the puzzle of how a coalition of parties has achieved this feat in a country where incumbent governments repeatedly suffer electoral defeats. A thick ethnographic description of the campaigning process, tracing the numerous techniques, organisational hierarchies and political messages at every level of the state’s population, provides some answers to this conundrum.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/cat/pba.cfm |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 Oxford University Press |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia |
| Sets: | Departments > Anthropology |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2011 10:44 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/32032/ |
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