Mohmand, Shandana Khan

Crafty oligarchs, savvy voters: democracy under inequality in rural Pakistan

by Mohmand, Shandana Khan

fromSouth Asia in the social sciences

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"This book uses rich primary research to develop innovative measures of political engagement that capture considerable diversity in the voting behaviour of rural citizens, and show how they are exploiting political spaces that are opening up as a result of social and economic ch…

How do citizens vote in rural Pakistan, and how much agency do they have in relation to local landlords, patrons and kinship networks in making electoral decisions? I explore this question in this dissertation through an empirical investigation of the voting behaviour of Pakista…