Pathways to power : recruitment and regime instability in Pakistan / Mariam Mufti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mufti, Mariam, author.

Series:

Politics of South Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political stability--Pakistan--History.

Political stability.

Power (Social sciences)--Pakistan--History.

Power (Social sciences).

Political stability--History.

Power (Social sciences)--History.

Pakistan--Politics and government--1988-1999.

Pakistan.

Physical Description:

xx, 275 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., [2026]

Summary:

"This book examines the "persistent instability" in Pakistan's regime addressing how we understand the shifts in the combination of authoritarian and democratic tendencies, and why is it that the regime does not go beyond the threshold of a transitioning democracy. In doing so, it emphasizes the importance of how power is distributed within a regime, by assessing candidate recruitment and selection in Pakistan. The book builds on the structural approaches by K.B. Sayeed (1968), Jalal (1995) and Tudor (2013) on the origins of democracy in Pakistan by questioning why an unstable regime has persisted in Pakistan despite electoral turnover and the entry of new political players. It then goes on to propose that if one treats elite recruitment as the independent variable explaining political regimes, the strategies employed by the elite to access power and perpetuate themselves in power explains why these elite do not have the incentive to move towards democracy, choosing instead a hybrid political system. Building on original field research conducted in Pakistan from 2008 to 2016, including 191 semi-structured interviews with politicians, bureaucrats, retired military officials, policy-makers and journalists, research in the book is also informed by focus groups conducted with party workers and activists, and thorough archival research of newspapers, monthly magazines and special editions covering elections. The book also provides the most easily accessible electoral data of Pakistan's National Assembly elections since 1988 in tabular form, data on electoral volatility, and rates of party-switching." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9789819541218

9819541212

OCLC:

1540952994

Publisher Number:

90104771517

CIPO000337959