title: Regionalization and Institutionalization : Dimensions of Multi-level Party System Change in India
creator: Pehl, Malte
subject: 320
subject: 320 Political science
description: The dissertation analyzes two important aspects of party politics in India today, regionalization and institutionalization. In some regions of India, the phenomena of de-institutionalization and regionalization of politics are closely tied together, while in others the regionalization of politics has by and large contributed to a new equilibrium of party competition which includes regional as well as national political forces. This necessitates a more complex model of understanding party system change over time and across States in India which is more attuned to such regional variation, and which is aware of the fact that most parties disappear as fast as they arose and that independents are an important factor in party system non-institutionalization in some regions. The dissertation also shows that attributing regionalization solely to a strategic turn away from national parties or an ideological turn away from national visions of politics across the board would be misleading. 
date: 2010
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/10636/1/PehlDoktorarbeitPolWiss2010.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00010636
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-106365
identifier:   Pehl, Malte  (2010) Regionalization and Institutionalization : Dimensions of Multi-level Party System Change in India.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/10636/
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language: eng