Political Tolerance in the Global South : Images of India, Pakistan and Uganda.
Sten. Widmalm
Bok Engelsk 2016 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt | : : Taylor and Francis, , 2016.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (269 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Political tolerance in plural societies; The structure of this study; Notes; 2 Understanding paths to political tolerance; Political tolerance and pluralism in perspective; Tolerance in practice in past plural societies; The idea of political tolerance; Making use of modern tolerance studies and its relatives; Samuel Stouffer and the birth of tolerance studies; Making use of Stouffer's and more recent studies. - Collecting the data for the TOLEDO study of political tolerance in India, Pakistan and UgandaThe study in India, Pakistan and Uganda; Some special dilemmas in tolerance research strategies and how they were tackled in this study; Some more dilemmas in tolerance research; Notes; 3 Fragile modernization in liberal India; Modernization in India, the decline of the Congress party and the rise of Hindu nationalism; Economics, party politics and violent conflict as challenges to political tolerance; The case of Madhya Pradesh; The in-depth interviews; The urban interviews; The rural interviews. - Conclusions from the in-depth interviewsThe Madhya Pradesh survey; Factors relating to political tolerance at the individual level; Political tolerance and bivariate relationships; Multivariate models and political tolerance; Conclusions; Unexpected absences of correlation; Socioeconomic factors that mattered; Going in different directions - institutional, civic and some cultural factors; Threat; What to bring with us to the overall comparison; Notes; 4 Political tolerance in multi-conflictual Pakistan. - Factors relating to political tolerance at the individual levelPolitical tolerance and bivariate relationships; Multivariate models and political tolerance; Conclusions; Factors that did not, or almost did not, matter for political tolerance; Factors that mattered; What to bring with us to the overall comparison; Notes; 5 Political tolerance and one-party dominated Uganda; Background; Historical divides, colonialism and terror; The Museveni era - a promising beginning; Museveni and the decline of governance in Uganda; The political opposition and the future path; The case of Uganda. - The in-depth interviews. - The side-tracked modernization in militarized Pakistan, the army hegemony and the rise of religious extremismFailing the democratic transition - severing the country; Entrenching military rule by deepening divisions; Democratic transition derailed; The return of military dictatorship and the War on Terrorism; Another democratic trial in Pakistan; Conflicting trajectories and deepening divides; The case of Punjab; The in-depth interviews; The urban interviews; The rural interviews; Conclusions from the in-depth interviews; The Punjab survey
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Emner | Political culture - India.
Political culture - Pakistan. Political culture - Uganda. Political sociology - India. Vis mer... Political sociology - Pakistan.
Political sociology - Uganda. Toleration - India. Toleration - Pakistan. Toleration - Uganda. Demokrati : HUME09724 Fattigdom : HUME09321 Government - Asia Government - Non-U.S. Law, Politics & Government Politikk : HUME09547 Politisk sosiologi : HUME16947 Politiske rettigheter : HUME09706 Toleranse : HUME08153 |
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ISBN | 9781472476470
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