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Patronage as politics in South Asia / edited by Anastasia Piliavsky

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014

1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 469 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Jan 2016)

978-1-107-29693-0 ( : ebook)

978-1-107-05608-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 900489997     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9781107296930

LB 49375      Ähnliche Literatur

JQ98.A91

306.20954

LOC-SH: Social structure -- South Asia ; Political sociology ; Patronage, Political -- South Asia

Patronage, Political ; South Asia ; Social structure ; South Asia ; Political sociology

Western policymakers, political activists and academics alike see patronage as the chief enemy of open, democratic societies. Patronage, for them, is a corrupting force, a hallmark of failed and failing states, and the obverse of everything that good, modern governance ought to be. South Asia poses a frontal challenge for this consensus. Here the world's most populous, pluralist and animated democracy is also a hotbed of corruption with persistently startling levels of inequality. Patronage as Politics in South Asia confronts this paradox with calm erudition: sixteen essays by anthropologists, historians and political scientists show, from a wide range of cultural and historical angles, that in South Asia patronage is no feudal residue or retrograde political pressure, but a political form vital in its own right. This volume suggests that patronage is no foe to South Asia's burgeoning democratic cultures, but may in fact be their main driving force