Journal article
Pakistan's coming crisis
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Pakistan's 2024 elections delivered a shocking surprise. Imran Khan's PTI won the largest number of seats amid heavy state repression. With this result, well-worn political patterns—whereby military favor virtually guaranteed a party's electoral success—were upended. This essay argues that Pakistan's 2024 election is not a "black swan" event but instead signals a coming crisis of governability that grows out of three structural changes: the rise of an aspirational middle class, the erosion of...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 416.2KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1353/jod.2024.a930428
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Democracy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 69-83
- Publication date:
- 2024-07-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-05-26
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1086-3214
- ISSN:
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1045-5736
Item Description
- Language:
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English
- Pubs id:
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2027765
- Local pid:
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pubs:2027765
- Deposit date:
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2024-09-13
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- Copyright holder:
- National Endowment for Democracy and Johns Hopkins University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2024
- Rights statement:
- © 2024 National Endowment for Democracy and Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Johns Hopkins University Press at https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jod.2024.a930428
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