Author: Mariam Mufti
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1626167710
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Pakistan’s 2018 general elections marked the second successful transfer of power from one elected civilian government to another—a remarkable achievement considering the country’s history of dictatorial rule. Pakistan’s Political Parties examines how the civilian side of the state’s current regime has survived the transition to democracy, providing critical insight into the evolution of political parties in Pakistan and their role in developing democracies in general. Pakistan’s numerous political parties span the ideological spectrum, as well as represent diverse regional, ethnic, and religious constituencies. The essays in this volume explore the way in which these parties both contend and work with Pakistan’s military-bureaucratic establishment to assert and expand their power. Researchers use interviews, surveys, data, and ethnography to illuminate the internal dynamics and motivations of these groups and the mechanisms through which they create policy and influence state and society. Pakistan’s Political Parties is a one-of-a-kind resource for diplomats, policymakers, journalists, and scholars searching for a comprehensive overview of Pakistan’s party system and its unlikely survival against an interventionist military, with insights that extend far beyond the region.
Author: Keith B. Callard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Author: Mohammad Waseem
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197654266
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages :
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This book is a major reinterpretation of politics in Pakistan. Its focus is conflict among groups, communities, classes, ideologies and institutions, which has shaped the country's political dynamics. Mohammad Waseem critically examines the theory surrounding the millennium-long conflict between Hindus and Muslims as separate nations who practiced mingled faiths, and the Hindu, Muslim and Sikh renaissances that created a twentieth-century clash of communities and led to partition. Political Conflict in Pakistan addresses multiple clashes: between the high culture as a mission to transform society, and the low culture of the land and the people; between those committed to the establishment's institutional constitutional framework and those seeking to dismantle the "colonial" state; between the corrupt and those seeking to hold them to account; between the political class and the middle class; and between civil and military power. The author exposes how the ruling elite centralised power through the militarisation and judicialization of politics, rendering the federalist arrangement an empty shell and thus grossly alienating the provinces. He sets all this within the contexts of education and media as breeders of conflict, the difficulties of establishing an anti-terrorist regime, and the state's pragmatic attempts at conflict resolution by seeking to keep the outsiders inside. This is a wide-ranging account of a country of contestations.
Author: Veena Kukreja
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761996835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Veena Kukreja provides a rare reasoned analysis of the political processes at work in contemporary Pakistan and an objective understanding of the problems and crises confronting the country. The author points out that for 25 out of the 53 years of its existence, the military has been the arbiter of Pakistan`s destiny. The military, she maintains, regards its dominance of Pakistani politics not only as a right but as a duty. As a result, state security has taken precedence over the need to create participatory political processes and institutions. The book points out that the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the resulting US offensive in Afghanistan, has put the military regime in Islamabad in a tight spot. Caught between unyielding ulemas, a faltering economy, and American pressure to demolish militant networks in Pakistan, these recent developments combined with the dangerous cleavage within Pakistani society-could well push that country into another bout of instability and even anarchy. The situation is made more complex by the nexus between terrorism and drugs .
Author: Khalid B. Sayeed
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Study of the political system of Pakistan - covers historical aspects, nationalist activities, political problems, public administration, economic development, religion and cultural factors, political parties, interest groups, rural development, foreign policy, etc. Bibliography pp. 293 to 308 and maps.
Author: Faisal Devji
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1849042764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Originally published: London: C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2013.
Author: Matthew McCartney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110876309X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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This volume makes a major intervention in the debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics. This is the first comprehensive academic analysis of Pakistan's political economy after thirty-five years, and addresses issues of state, class and society, examining gender, the middle classes, the media, the bazaar economy, urban spaces and the new elite. The book goes beyond the contemporary obsession with terrorism and extremism, political Islam, and simple 'civilian–military relations', and looks at modern-day Pakistan through the lens of varied academic disciplines. It not only brings together new work by some emerging scholars but also formulates a new political economy for the country, reflecting the contemporary reality and diversification in the social sciences in Pakistan. The chapters dynamically and dialectically capture emergent processes and trends in framing Pakistan's political economy and invite scholars to engage with and move beyond these concerns and issues.
Author: Stephen M. Lyon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498582184
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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In Political Kinship in Pakistan, Stephen M. Lyon illustrates how contemporary politics in Pakistan are built on complex kinship networks created through marriage and descent relations. Lyon points to kinship as a critical mechanism for understanding both Pakistan’s continued inability to develop strong and stable governments, and its incredible durability in the face of pressures that have led to the collapse and failure of other states around the world.
Author: V.Y. Belokrenitsky
Publisher: OUP Pakistan
ISBN: 9780199063802
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The authors characterize main features and trends in the political history of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The book highlights aims and achievements of different governments. The foreign policy is analyzed in the context of regional and global situation, with special regard to the relations between Pakistan and the USSR/Russia.
Author: Fazal Muqueem Khan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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