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Social cleavages, party organization, and the end of single-party dominance: Insights from India
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When do electorally dominant parties lose power in democracies? Drawing on the experiences of India's states during the period of Indian National Congress dominance, we argue that single-party dominance is less likely to endure under two conditions: first, when one of the opposition parties possesses a longstanding and robust party organization and, second, when there is a single social cleavage dividing the political class into two main cleavage groups. Both conditions contribute to the demi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- City University of New York Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Comparative Politics Journal website
- Volume:
- 52
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 149-188
- Publication date:
- 2019-10-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-07-28
- ISSN:
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0010-4159
- Source identifiers:
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907391
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:907391
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uuid:6200776e-3aa8-4cd5-8a01-5c8616c250a4
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- pubs:907391
- Deposit date:
- 2018-08-15
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- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from City University of New York at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/cuny/cp/2019/00000052/00000001/art00009
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