Forty Years of World's Largest Democracy a Survey of Indian Elections [Hardcover]

The book is a data based account of electors, voters and the fortunes of all-India and regional political parties held during the last forty-years to the Lok-Sabha and the State Assemblies. The authors in this book critically examine the issues which figured in the election manifestoes and campaigning of the principal contending parties. Contents:- Foreword IX • Chapter 1 • Five Hundred Million Electors • Universal Adult Franchise • Reduction in Voting Age • Women's Participation • Chapter 2 • Electoral System • Divide and Rule : Separate Electorates • Reservation of Seats • Anomalies of First-Past-the-Post • Voters' Capacity for Judgement • Chapter 3 • Growth of A Complex Polity • Political Parties and Alliances • Emergence of Regional Parties • Stars in Political Wars • 1989: Tense Run-up • New Political Configuration • Northern 'waves' and the South • Other Highlights • A 'Hung' Lok Sabha • Shifting Scene in the States • 1990: A Mani General Aspects of stability Election • Chapter 4. Issues in—and Beyond - 1989 • Poverty • Literacy • Corruption • Electoral Reform • Secularism and Minorities • Common Civil Code • Caste—based Quotas: Mandal Report • Centre-State-Local Body Relations • Freedom of the Media • Foreign Policy • Chapter 5. Psephology Arrives in India • Reading the Voters' Mind • What Brings the Voter Out • How the Indian Voter Decides The Title 'Forty Years of World's Largest Democracy a Survey of Indian Elections written/authored/edited by G. Balachandran, G.N.S. Raghavan Foreword By P. Unni Krishan', published in the year 1990. The ISBN 9788121203326 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 131 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Political Science. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-