Party Systems and Government Stability in the Indian States

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3272162
AutoresPaul R Bra, Paul R Brass (University of Washington, autor de correspondencia)
Año1977
Volumen71
Número4
Páginas1384-1405
Fecha de publicación1977-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1961486
OpenAlexW4234110495
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas16

This paper contributes to the substantive and methodological discussion of the issues concerning the causes of cabinet instability through analysis of data from Indian state politics. The focus of the analysis is on explaining the duration of Indian state governments in days with variables measuring the degree of fragmentation and cohesion in the party system, the composition of the cabinet, the characteristics of the opposition, and the role of ideological differences. A substantial amount of the variation in the durability of coalition governments is explained with variables that measure the degree of party system institutionalization and the extent of political opportunism, but ideological factors do not explain much of the differences in durability of governments. It is also found that none of the measures used can explain much of the variation in one-party majority governments for which, it is argued, explanations must be sought that focus on leadership skill and on relationships between leaders and factions in a dominant party

Authoritarianism · Cabinet (room · Democracy · Ideology · Institutionalisation · Opportunism · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Public Administration · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies