Electoral Politics in South Asia
Basu, Subho / Das, Suranjan
Elections in South Asia in the 1980s and 1990s produced many surprises. Notwithstanding the initial skepticism voiced by many a western political analyst and despite interludes of dictatorships in one or two countries, democracy as a form of governance has won a general acceptance in the region. Electoral politics in the subcontinent aptly demonstrates this fact.
This volume draws together studies by internationally acclaimed scholars on natio...