How many political parties are there in Nagaland?
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73 Citations | Spatial-econometric analyses of parties’ election policies from several established democracies robustly confirm that political parties respond to left-right policy positions of foreign political parties that have recently governed. |
This suggests that only .% of the population are members of political parties. | |
10 Citations | We offer a new measure of the ideologically cognizable number of political parties/party groupings that is intended to be complementary to the standard approach to counting the effective number of political parties – the Laakso–Taagepera index (1979). |
Open access•Journal Article | Political parties usually serve a country best when they are limited in number, strong, and broad-based. |
16 Citations | Most explanations for party-voter linkages in rural Pakistan can be grouped into four broad categories: (a) political parties are made up of powerful landlords who use economic power to collect votes from dependent voters; (b) parties are conglomerations of clientelist networks; (c) parties are large aggregations of kinship networks; and (d) parties function by building links with specific types of constituencies across large parts of the country, and voters forge links with political parties based on ideology and party identification. |
22 Citations | The paper further argues that more than 90% of the political parties in Nigeria are fragile entities, hence, have only developed shallow roots in the society, and concludes on the note that Nigerian political parties have failed in their democratic responsibilities of aggregating social interests, representing specific constituencies, and serving as intermediaries between state and society. |
Open access•Journal Article | Secondly, these identity structures shape identity politics and political outcomes today, a phenomenon that is part of larger local debates on marginality in Nagaland. |
47 Citations | Compared to local party branches, independent local parties are more successful in performing the organisational, programmatic and nomination function of political parties. |
12 Citations | The analyses point to the importance of political parties in distributive politics. |
Open access•Journal Article 3 Citations | However, engagement with other modes of political activities remains very much a minority pursuit for women in Nagaland. |
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