Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters: Democracy Under Inequality in Rural Pakistan

by Shandana Khan Mohmand

How does democracy empower marginalized voters under conditions of inequality? The author probes into this question grounding her research in the context of Pakistan, an emerging democracy whose voters have actively been involved in defining its political history but about whom we know very little. They turn up in sizeable numbers to vote during elections, even under military rule, prompting all kinds of contradictory stereotypes about how Pakistani...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108473636
• ISBN13: 9781108473637
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"