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Special issue: electoral fraud and manipulation in India and Pakistan

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Despite official reports and widespread popular accounts of electoral fraud, manipulation, and violence in India and Pakistan, this topic has not been systematically addressed by the scholarly literature. This special issue explores how electoral malpractices are performed across a variety of settings (villages, small towns and cities) in criminalised political contexts. Our in-depth ethnographic studies of the electoral seasons show how fraud and manipulation of electoral processes are a diffuse and pervasive assemblage of practices, discourses and representations which shape and are shaped by local modes of governance and by the idea of free and fair elections.

Source: Commonwealth and Comparative Politics

DOI: 10.1080/14662043.2020.1700016

Authors: Nicolas Martin, David Picherit

Institutions: University of Zurich, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative, French Institute of Pondicherry

Language: English

Topic: Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funder: Economic and Social Research Council