Indian National Congress : from dominance to decline or hibernation? / M. P. Singh and Rekha Saxena.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singh, M. P., author.

Saxena, Rekha, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian National Congress--History--20th century.

Indian National Congress.

Indian National Congress--History--21st century.

India--Politics and government--History--20th century.

India.

India--Politics and government--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (114 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

M.P. Singh, M.A. (Patna), Ph.D. (Alberta), is a former Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi and a former Editor of the Indian Journal of Public Administration (IIPA/SAGE Publications) and presently a National Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, working on a two-year research project on Indian Federalism in a Comparative Perspective with Special Reference to Judicial Federalism. He is also co-editor of the IIAS's biannual journal Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. He was the country coordinator for India for the Global Dialogue on Federal Systems commissioned by the Forum of Federations, Ottawa, leading to a book Intergovernmental Relations in Federal Systems: Comparative Structures Dynamics edited by Johanne Poirier, Cheryl Saunders, and John Kincaid already published by the Oxford University Press, New York, 2016. Professor Singh is a leading Indian scholar in the fields of party systems and governmental institutions with special reference to federalism and judicial behaviour in India. His latest publications include chapters on Indian Federalism and the Supreme Court of India in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Oxford University Press, New York, 2017, 2018. Rekha Saxena has been a full Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, for more than 12 years. She is the honorary Vice-Chairperson of the Centre for Multilevel Federalism in New Delhi that is a member of The International Association of Centers for Federal Studies (IACFS). She is also the Honorary Senior Advisor to the Forum of Federations, Canada. She was awarded a doctoral fellowship by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute where she was affiliated with Queen's University Canada (1999-2000). She was also the recipient of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute's Faculty Research (2003), and Faculty Enrichment (2011) Awards to visit Canada, where she was affiliated with the Department of Political Studies and IIGR at Queens University, the University of Toronto, and McGill University. Rekha Saxena has published over a dozen books. Her recent publications include New Dimensions in Federal Discourse in India, Routledge (2021, edited), The Value of Comparative Federalism, Routledge (2021, coedited), Varieties of Federal Governance: Major Contemporary Models, Foundation: Cambridge University Press, India (2010), The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India (2022), Indian Judiciary: The changing Landscape (2014), and The Indian Judiciary: The Changing Landscape (2007, co-edited).

Contents:

The Party System in India

Congress in the 1980s

Indian National Congress in the 1990s

Congress since 2000.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2024).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Singh, M. P. Indian National Congress

ISBN:

9781003254676

1003254675

9781003806844

1003806848

9781003806851

1003806856

Publisher Number:

40032262311

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