The role of political parties in building democracy in India and Pakistan. A party-oriented approach towards democratisation processes

• Authors: Nitza-Makowska Agnieszka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Political parties in India and Pakistan consider democracy a desirable regime for their countries. In order to introduce their own vision of a democratic state, they violate rules of free and fair elections, undermining the very procedures that constitute democracy. The Indian National Congress and the Muslim League made different kinds of impacts on the democratisation processes in India and Pakistan respectively. In just a few years, the Indian National Congress, contrary to its counterpart in Pakistan, introduced a constitution and organised elections.

Keywords

EN

democracy in Asia; party system in India; party system in Pakistan; nuclear weapon states; criminalisation of politics

• Publisher: European Association for Security
• Journal: Securitologia
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 1 (23)
• Pages: 159-175

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Nitza-Makowska Agnieszka

• Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0009.5272