Political Survival in Pakistan
Presenting a framework that incorporates macro forces into micro-level strategic calculations by key agents, this book explains key political choices by leaders and challengers in Pakistan through the political survival mechanism. It offers an explanation for continuing polity weakness in the country, and describes how political survival shapes the choices made by the leaders and challengers.
Using a unique analysis that synthesizes theories of weak states, quasi-states and political survival, the book extends beyond the rationalist accounts and the application of choice-theoretical approaches to developing countries. It challenges the focus on ideology and suggests that diverse, religiously and ethnically defined affinity groups have interests that are represented in particular ways in weak state circumstances. Extensive interviews with decision-makers and polity-participants, as well as narrative accounts, allow the author to examine leaders decision-making in a state bureaucratic machinery context and the complex mechanisms by which dissident affinity groups may support quasi-state options. This study can be used for comparisons in Islamic contexts, and presents an interesting contribution to studies on South Asia as well as Political Theory.
Anas Malik is a political scientist at Xavier University, USA. His research interests include the political economy of development and political Islam, with a focus on South Asia and the Middle East.
Routledge advances in South Asian studies
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Malik, Anas.
Political survival in Pakistan : beyond ideology / Anas Malik.
p. cm. -- (Routledge advances in South Asian studies ; 18)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Political culture--Pakistan. 2. Pakistan--Politics and government--1988
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