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Power-Sharing in the World's Largest Democracy: Informal Consociationalism in India (and Its Decline?)

Adeney, Katharine; Swenden, Wilfried

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Wilfried Swenden



Abstract

© 2019 Swiss Political Science Association India is one of the most diverse countries of the world but operates with a majoritarian Westminster constitution and simple plurality electoral system, albeit also with a federal structure. It was eventually coded as consociational by Arend Lijphart (1996) but this coding was questioned by authors such as Wilkinson (2000) and Adeney (2002). This article assesses the nature of both de jure and de facto power-sharing in India over its 70 years of independence and tracks the evolution of de jure and de facto power-sharing in relation to four dimensions of diversity: religion, caste, territory and language. It questions whether the electoral success of Hindu nationalism and the increasing acceptance of ethnic majoritarianism has reduced the degree of power-sharing in India.

Citation

Adeney, K., & Swenden, W. (2019). Power-Sharing in the World's Largest Democracy: Informal Consociationalism in India (and Its Decline?). Swiss Political Science Review, 25(4), 450-475. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12360

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 24, 2019
Online Publication Date Jul 8, 2019
Publication Date 2019-12
Deposit Date May 24, 2019
Publicly Available Date Jul 9, 2020
Journal Swiss Political Science Review
Electronic ISSN 1662-6370
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 25
Issue 4
Pages 450-475
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12360
Keywords Political Science and International Relations
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2090348
Publisher URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spsr.12360
Additional Information This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Adeney, K. and Swenden, W. (2019), Power‐Sharing in the World's Largest Democracy: Informal Consociationalism in India (and Its Decline?). Swiss Polit Sci Rev. , which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12360. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions
Contract Date May 24, 2019

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