Steven Ian Wilkinson

Discovering Calculus With Mathematicany Anton Calculus

Religious Politics And Communal Violence

Votes and Violence : Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India

Patrons, Clients And Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political Competition

Patrons, Clients And Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability And Political Competition

Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Revealing why Hindu-Muslim riots in India break out when and where they do, Steven Wilkinson demonstrates why some state governments in India prevent Hindu-Muslim riots while others do not or even help to incite violence. Wilkinson asserts that riots are manipulated to help win elections, and that s...

Patrons, Clients and Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political Competition

Most models of party competition assume that citizens vote for a platform rather than narrowly targeted material benefits. However, there are many countries where politicians win elections by giving money, jobs, and services in direct exchange for votes. This is not just true in the developing world...

Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence

At Indian independence in 1947, the country’s founders worried that the army India inherited― conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few “martial” groups―posed a real threat to democracy. They also saw the structure of the army, with its recruitment on the ...

Religious Politics and Communal Violence (Critical Issues in Indian Politics)

This volume compiles influential and lesser-known, yet significant interventions to present the most comprehensive social scientific analysis of communal violence in India, and tries to offer political and institutional explanations for it.