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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Hassan N. Gardezi © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 1 (1994)
Politics of Religion in Pakistan’s Elections:
An Assessment
Hassan N. Cardezi
Every regime that has come to power in Paki- also well articulated in the prolific...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 83–101.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Ornit Shani Shani's article examines a key aspect of the rupture from colonial rule in the making of independent India, which was critical to its process of democratization. This undertaking was the preparation of the first elections on the basis of universal suffrage. Implementing and planning...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 473–486.
Published: 01 December 2008
... in the torn country and facilitated democratic elections but did not terminate the Afghan turmoil and the threat of its regional spillover effects. Six years after the invasion, hopes for renovation, peace, and stability are entwined with great challenges and fears of continuing insecurity. Alongside efforts...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 353–359.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Berna Turam; Monica M. Ringer In both media accounts and scholarship, contemporary Turkey draws much attention as a hotbed of contestation between Islamists and secularists. Indeed, the ban of the popularly elected Islamist Welfare Party and of the headscarf in universities in 1998 reinforced...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 49–62.
Published: 01 May 2019
... lower-income migrants, and deadly competition for elected party and government positions in postapartheid South Africa. The discussion focuses on describing the relationship between these three phenomena alongside aspects of multiparty politics, single-party rule, and violent contests for profitable...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 562–563.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to begin with. Paradoxically, elected representatives who helm the state apparatus are often the only actors with the authority and delegated powers to reform the state, something that they have few incentives to do. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 crime India democracy politics...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 42–43.
Published: 01 May 2016
... twentieth-century Indian history: the inauguration of dyarchy under the 1919 Government of India Act; the application of provincial autonomy under the 1935 Government of India Act; and the preparation of the draft roll for India's first general election, held shortly after the inauguration of the republican...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 44–65.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Stephen Legg The 1919 Government of India Act devolved powers to the provinces and then divided these roles of government into reserved and transferred subjects, the latter of which would be administered by elected Indian ministers: the constitutional experiment known as dyarchy. Recent scholarship...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 666–671.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., a human could not be enslaved as the Quran could not be put “in chains.” Ware argues that such a meaning of the nobility of the human and her election to be the lieutenant ( khalife ) of God is the driving force behind the wars of the Marabouts against the Atlantic slave trade. Diagne also engages...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 355–361.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Amal Ghazal Abstract This article looks at the process through which the Ibadi Mzabi community in the Algerian desert “minoritized” itself during the colonial period, leading into the 1948 elections to represent the Mzab Valley on the newly created Algerian Assembly. This representation legally...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (2): 1–7.
Published: 01 August 1989
... organizing an agi-
between the Premadasa regime and the Liberation tational campaign to protest election results, in the end
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and (iii) the demise of the party leadership opted for legal means. Ban-
thc Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). These pro- daranaike filed...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (1): 35–51.
Published: 01 May 1998
... PARV IN NORTH INDIA 37
Table 1: BSPs Electoral Performances
during the 1989, 1991 and 1996 general elections
Year Seats Seats Forfeited Votes O/o of votes 0’0 of seats...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 14–23.
Published: 01 May 1994
... in the 1984 elections, the fourth phase. The first phase, under the president-
party managed to become the main opposition fol- ship of Atal Behari Vajpayee, was from 1980 to
lowing the 199 1 general elections. More important, 1986. The second phase can be dated from the time
the BJP’s open advocacy...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 1–5.
Published: 01 August 1988
... was used to store
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American and Chinese rockets, missiles and other ammuni- Staff, General Aslam Baig, that it was a conspiracy to pre-
tion for transfer to Afghan insurgents under IS1 supervision. vent the November elections and undermine...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 24–34.
Published: 01 May 2020
... With these thoughts in mind and in order to open a question of how political life emerges, I would like to close this essay with the voice of one of these cosmopolitan citizens. I conducted interviews during “country plan” meetings in 2011, a set of moderated and recorded discussions between elected refugee...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (1): 105–125.
Published: 01 May 2009
... legitimacy from Islamic law — the religious su- IRI is unique among nondemocratic regimes,
Middle pervisory bodies (the Council of the Guardian having regular parliamentary and presidential
[Majles-e Khobregan], the Expediency Council elections with a (limited) choice...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 547–551.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to the postcolonial periods, Vaishnav's empirical focus on Indian democracy is confined mostly to the last several decades. One of the book's key empirical contributions is a thorough analysis of candidate disclosures gathered by the Indian Election Commission from 2003 to 2009, spanning thirty-five state and two...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 83–94.
Published: 01 May 1999
... people.
of rights including democratic principles based on A feature of rural local government during the
elected representative government. On the other, it apartheid period, and to some extent the colonial pe-
acclaims the role of unelected traditional authorities’ riod...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 101–113.
Published: 01 August 1996
... Assembly, cuting politicians who have always acted above the
and with it, the second Benazir Bhutto government. law. In fact, many feudal politicians have committed
This was the fourth sacking of an elected government the most egregious crimes against their tenant farm-
since 1988. Pakistan’s...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (2): 1–7.
Published: 01 August 1985
... of Prime Minister Liaqat Ali
internally. Once the economy of the postcolonial state is Khan. In 1954 when the League met its first challenge at
integrated into the framework of dependent or peripheral the polls ip the provincial elections of East Pakistan, it was
capitalism, this according...
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