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100			_aMohmand, Shandana Khan
245			_aCrafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters _b: democracy under inequality in rural Pakistan
260			_bCambridge University Press _c2019 _aCambridge
300			_axvii, 298p.
504			_aInclude Bibliography and Index
520			_aHow does democracy empower marginalized voters under conditions of inequality? The author probes into this question grounding her research in the context of Pakistan, an emerging democracy whose voters have actively been involved in defining its political history but about whom we know very little. They turn up in sizeable numbers to vote during elections, even under military rule, prompting all kinds of contradictory stereotypes about how Pakistani rural voters behave as electoral cannon fodder. But no one has looked very closely at why they vote as they do, or why they vote at all when their political agency is severely limited by high socio-economic inequality. By using original data collected across different villages and households in rural Pakistan, this book finds that electoral politics enables even the most marginalized voters to strategically further their interests vis-à-vis elite groups, but that persistent inequality limits their ability to organize or compete.
650			_aPolitical Participation _vDemocracy _vPolitics and Government _vEquality _vLocal Government _vRepresentative Government and Representation _zPakistan
942			_2ddc _cBK