Katharine Adeney
Biographic Data
| ID | 1534555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharine Adeney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharine |
| FAMILY NAME | Adeney |
| SIGNATURE | ADENEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0897-9028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
State-led nationalism and the varieties of religious majoritarianism
This article engages critically with Modood and Sealy’s typology of the governance of religious diversity. While welcoming their redefinition of secularism(s) as a means of governing religious diversity, we argue that it is also important to differentiate types of majoritarian nationalism. Focusing on the way that non-core groups are treated, we develop a fourfold typology of religious majoritarianism: hierarchical, assimilationist, dominant, and…
Gullimair travels east
In this article, we apply Mair’s concept of ‘party system closure’ to Asian party systems, with particular comparison with his native continent, Europe. Building on Mair’s (2001) conceptualization and Casal Bértoa and Enyedi’s (2021) operationalization of party system institutionalization (PSI), which demonstrates the importance of looking at the supply-side of PSI and the superiority of closure over electoral volatility as a measure of PSI, this…
Global China and Pakistan’s federal politics
The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is one of the most prominent projects under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. While its geopolitical and financial implications have received much attention, CPEC’s mediation through the structures of Pakistan’s federal system has remained comparatively understudied. To fill this gap, this article analyses CPEC’s evolution between 2013 and 2023, revealing both the continuing centralisation of the manage…
Multinational Democratic Federations
In this article, we compare the Indian experience with that of some of the multinational and multi-level polities from the Global North, namely Belgium, Canada, Spain and the United Kingdom. We first summarize the essence of multinationalism. Drawing from our comparative examples of the Global North we then show how dominant narratives of state nationalism condition the extent to which the state can accommodate plurinational difference through se…
Authoritarianism, democracy and de/centralization in federations
What is the impact of democracy/authoritarianism regime change on de/ centralization in federations? Based on the annual coding of three politicoinstitutional aspects, 22 policy fields, and five fiscal categories, this article maps de/centralization in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan from the establishment of their respective federal orders to 2020. It shows that de/centralization varies greatly across its different dimensions as …
Federalism and regime change
The extent to which de/centralization is shaped by regime change in federations that have experienced periods of autocratic rule is yet to be fully explored. To this end, this article measures static and dynamic de/centralization in Pakistan – a federal country under autocratic rule for long periods – since the introduction of its first constitution in 1956. Drawing on an original dataset compiled by the authors, this article challenges the narra…
How can we model ethnic democracy? An application to contemporary India
The status of India as the world's largest democracy is often lauded, but the re‐election of the overtly Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019 has increased concerns about the threat to India's multinational democracy and the rule of law. India is not the only democracy facing challenges related to majoritarian nationalism; there has been a worldwide rise in the language of majority ‘rights’ in democratic systems. The importance of ana…
The Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Pakistan’s Federal System
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is often portrayed as the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative. While much attention has been devoted to its geopolitical repercussions, its impacts on Pakistan’s federal system and interprovincial relations have not yet been explored. Organized around interviews conducted in 2015, 2018, and 2019, this article demonstrates that the construction of the economic corridor is acting as a centripetal fo…
In their own words
In their own words analyses the motivations of one of the most infamous terrorist organisations in South Asia - Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) - responsible for the attack on the Taj Hotel in India in 200
Power‐Sharing in the World's Largest Democracy
India is one of the most diverse countries of the world but operates with a majoritarian Westminster constitution and simple plurality electoral system, albeit also with a federal structure. It was eventually coded as consociational by Arend Lijphart (1996) but this coding was questioned by authors such as Wilkinson (2000) and Adeney (2002). This article assesses the nature of both de jure and de facto power‐sharing in India over its 70 years of …
Current challenges to multinational federalism in India
India’s multinational federation has experienced multiple challenges in the last 25 years, relating to the rise of coalition politics and the process of economic liberalization, both of which have increased the power of some of the states of the federation at the expense of others. The internal borders of India continue to be restructured, with the latest state, Telangana, created in 2014. India is often seen as a successful multinational federat…
Does ethnofederalism explain the success of Indian federalism
Ethnofederalism has been contested as a solution for diverse societies as seen recently in Nepal (where federalism has been accepted, but the design and number of units remains heavily contested) and Myanmar (where ethnic minority demands for increasing federalization have had to take a back seat to the demands for increasing democracy). It remains a heavily contested subject in Sri Lanka. Concerns are expressed that ethnofederalism will increase…
How to understand Pakistan's hybrid regime
Pakistan has had a chequered democratic history but elections in 2013 marked a second turnover in power, and the first transition in Pakistan’s history from one freely elected government to another. How do we best categorize (and therefore understand) political developments in Pakistan? Is it now safe to categorize it as an electoral democracy or is it still a hybrid case of democracy? Using the Pakistani case as an example, this article argues t…
A Move to Majoritarian Nationalism? Challenges of Representation in South Asia
Despite India’s status as the world’s largest democracy and increasing turnouts in many of the countries of South Asia, recent elections raise concerns about the threat to democracy in the form of majoritarianism. Many of the countries of South Asia are extremely diverse and (mainly) informal mechanisms of accommodation of minorities have been deployed. At the same time concerns about the threat to minority rights in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka…
Introduction
In this article the special issue on the future of democracy is introduced with a discussion of the rationale and a brief overview of the contributions that follow. In addition the authors highlight four major themes that run through the special issue. These themes are: the measurement of democracy, the importance of time and context for understanding democracy, the importance of institutions in the process of democratization, and the differentia…
Remapping India
The promise of power
A Step Towards Inclusive Federalism in Pakistan? The Politics of the 18th Amendment
Pakistan's federal structures have been the subject of controversy since independence. Long-standing demands for change have been made, particularly changes to the vertical and horizontal division of resources and demands for a reorganization of provinces along ethno-linguistic lines. The 18th Constitutional Amendment of 2010 introduced major changes to the federal system, agreed by consensus. But have these changes gone far enough? This article …
The Limitations of Non-consociational Federalism
Pakistan is a federation with a chequered democratic history, but this should not prevent us from analysing the ways in which its federal form has influenced identity formation and articulation. The form of Pakistan's federation has changed radically and Pakistan has experienced several severe ethno-linguistic conflicts. Interestingly however, the community most often associated with nationalist demands, Pashtuns in North-West Frontier Province (…
Contextualising the Teaching of Statistics in Political Science
The teaching of quantitative research methods is an integral part of most postgraduate programmes in politics, but less common at undergraduate level. This article explores the extent to which research methods in general, and quantitative research methods in particular, form part of the curricula of Politics departments in the UK. We then discuss an approach for motivating interest in a subject that tends to be unpopular with many students. We re…
The federal election in Pakistan, February 2008
Constitutional Design and the Political Salience of “Community” Identity in Afghanistan
After the defeat of the Taliban, Afghanistan entered a period of constitutional flux. The 2004 Constitution rejected formal ethnic representation in state institutions. This Constitution, therefore, provides no defense against perceived or actual domination of the state by any one particular ethnic community. This could lead to increased ethnic resentment and conflicts
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in India and Pakistan
Katharine Adeney demonstrates that institutional design is the most important explanatory variable in understanding the different intensity and types of conflict in the two countries rather than the r
Institutional Attempts to Build a “National” Identity in India
Katharine Adeney is Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield.Marie Lall is a principal researcher at the Institute of Education and a visiting lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Marie Lall is a Lecturer in Education Policy at the Institute of Education and a visiting lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Notes The authors wo…
Democracy in South Asia
With reference to South Asia, we argue that recourse to the conventional structuralist and transition accounts of democratisation sustains an unhelpful dichotomy. Those approaches tend towards either determinism or agent-driven contingency. In contrast, an alternative approach that recognises the relevance of both structure and agency is proposed. In certain circumstances, human agency opens up the possibility of the relatively rapid transformati…
How to understand Pakistan's hybrid regime
Pakistan has had a chequered democratic history but elections in 2013 marked a second turnover in power, and the first transition in Pakistan’s history from one freely elected government to another. How do we best categorize (and therefore understand) political developments in Pakistan? Is it now safe to categorize it as an electoral democracy or is it still a hybrid case of democracy? Using the Pakistani case as an example, this article argues t…
A Step Towards Inclusive Federalism in Pakistan? The Politics of the 18th Amendment
Pakistan's federal structures have been the subject of controversy since independence. Long-standing demands for change have been made, particularly changes to the vertical and horizontal division of resources and demands for a reorganization of provinces along ethno-linguistic lines. The 18th Constitutional Amendment of 2010 introduced major changes to the federal system, agreed by consensus. But have these changes gone far enough? This article …
A Move to Majoritarian Nationalism? Challenges of Representation in South Asia
Despite India’s status as the world’s largest democracy and increasing turnouts in many of the countries of South Asia, recent elections raise concerns about the threat to democracy in the form of majoritarianism. Many of the countries of South Asia are extremely diverse and (mainly) informal mechanisms of accommodation of minorities have been deployed. At the same time concerns about the threat to minority rights in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka…
Democracy in South Asia
With reference to South Asia, we argue that recourse to the conventional structuralist and transition accounts of democratisation sustains an unhelpful dichotomy. Those approaches tend towards either determinism or agent-driven contingency. In contrast, an alternative approach that recognises the relevance of both structure and agency is proposed. In certain circumstances, human agency opens up the possibility of the relatively rapid transformati…
Contextualising the Teaching of Statistics in Political Science
The teaching of quantitative research methods is an integral part of most postgraduate programmes in politics, but less common at undergraduate level. This article explores the extent to which research methods in general, and quantitative research methods in particular, form part of the curricula of Politics departments in the UK. We then discuss an approach for motivating interest in a subject that tends to be unpopular with many students. We re…
How can we model ethnic democracy? An application to contemporary India
The status of India as the world's largest democracy is often lauded, but the re‐election of the overtly Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019 has increased concerns about the threat to India's multinational democracy and the rule of law. India is not the only democracy facing challenges related to majoritarian nationalism; there has been a worldwide rise in the language of majority ‘rights’ in democratic systems. The importance of ana…
Constitutional Centring
(2002). Constitutional Centring: Nation Formation and Consociational Federalism in India and Pakistan. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 8-33
Does ethnofederalism explain the success of Indian federalism
Ethnofederalism has been contested as a solution for diverse societies as seen recently in Nepal (where federalism has been accepted, but the design and number of units remains heavily contested) and Myanmar (where ethnic minority demands for increasing federalization have had to take a back seat to the demands for increasing democracy). It remains a heavily contested subject in Sri Lanka. Concerns are expressed that ethnofederalism will increase…
Federalism and regime change
The extent to which de/centralization is shaped by regime change in federations that have experienced periods of autocratic rule is yet to be fully explored. To this end, this article measures static and dynamic de/centralization in Pakistan – a federal country under autocratic rule for long periods – since the introduction of its first constitution in 1956. Drawing on an original dataset compiled by the authors, this article challenges the narra…
Institutional Attempts to Build a “National” Identity in India
Katharine Adeney is Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield.Marie Lall is a principal researcher at the Institute of Education and a visiting lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Marie Lall is a Lecturer in Education Policy at the Institute of Education and a visiting lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Notes The authors wo…
The Limitations of Non-consociational Federalism
Pakistan is a federation with a chequered democratic history, but this should not prevent us from analysing the ways in which its federal form has influenced identity formation and articulation. The form of Pakistan's federation has changed radically and Pakistan has experienced several severe ethno-linguistic conflicts. Interestingly however, the community most often associated with nationalist demands, Pashtuns in North-West Frontier Province (…
The Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Pakistan’s Federal System
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is often portrayed as the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative. While much attention has been devoted to its geopolitical repercussions, its impacts on Pakistan’s federal system and interprovincial relations have not yet been explored. Organized around interviews conducted in 2015, 2018, and 2019, this article demonstrates that the construction of the economic corridor is acting as a centripetal fo…
Power‐Sharing in the World's Largest Democracy
India is one of the most diverse countries of the world but operates with a majoritarian Westminster constitution and simple plurality electoral system, albeit also with a federal structure. It was eventually coded as consociational by Arend Lijphart (1996) but this coding was questioned by authors such as Wilkinson (2000) and Adeney (2002). This article assesses the nature of both de jure and de facto power‐sharing in India over its 70 years of …
Global China and Pakistan’s federal politics
The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is one of the most prominent projects under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. While its geopolitical and financial implications have received much attention, CPEC’s mediation through the structures of Pakistan’s federal system has remained comparatively understudied. To fill this gap, this article analyses CPEC’s evolution between 2013 and 2023, revealing both the continuing centralisation of the manage…
Authoritarianism, democracy and de/centralization in federations
What is the impact of democracy/authoritarianism regime change on de/ centralization in federations? Based on the annual coding of three politicoinstitutional aspects, 22 policy fields, and five fiscal categories, this article maps de/centralization in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan from the establishment of their respective federal orders to 2020. It shows that de/centralization varies greatly across its different dimensions as …
Constitutional Design and the Political Salience of “Community” Identity in Afghanistan
After the defeat of the Taliban, Afghanistan entered a period of constitutional flux. The 2004 Constitution rejected formal ethnic representation in state institutions. This Constitution, therefore, provides no defense against perceived or actual domination of the state by any one particular ethnic community. This could lead to increased ethnic resentment and conflicts
The federal election in Pakistan, February 2008
Current challenges to multinational federalism in India
India’s multinational federation has experienced multiple challenges in the last 25 years, relating to the rise of coalition politics and the process of economic liberalization, both of which have increased the power of some of the states of the federation at the expense of others. The internal borders of India continue to be restructured, with the latest state, Telangana, created in 2014. India is often seen as a successful multinational federat…
Multiple identities, dual loyalties and the stabilisation of federalism in India
Constitutional Centring
(2002). Constitutional Centring: Nation Formation and Consociational Federalism in India and Pakistan. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 8-33
Multiple identities, dual loyalties and the stabilisation of federalism in India
Democracy in South Asia
With reference to South Asia, we argue that recourse to the conventional structuralist and transition accounts of democratisation sustains an unhelpful dichotomy. Those approaches tend towards either determinism or agent-driven contingency. In contrast, an alternative approach that recognises the relevance of both structure and agency is proposed. In certain circumstances, human agency opens up the possibility of the relatively rapid transformati…
Institutional Attempts to Build a “National” Identity in India
Katharine Adeney is Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield.Marie Lall is a principal researcher at the Institute of Education and a visiting lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Marie Lall is a Lecturer in Education Policy at the Institute of Education and a visiting lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Notes The authors wo…
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in India and Pakistan
Katharine Adeney demonstrates that institutional design is the most important explanatory variable in understanding the different intensity and types of conflict in the two countries rather than the r
Constitutional Design and the Political Salience of “Community” Identity in Afghanistan
After the defeat of the Taliban, Afghanistan entered a period of constitutional flux. The 2004 Constitution rejected formal ethnic representation in state institutions. This Constitution, therefore, provides no defense against perceived or actual domination of the state by any one particular ethnic community. This could lead to increased ethnic resentment and conflicts
The Limitations of Non-consociational Federalism
Pakistan is a federation with a chequered democratic history, but this should not prevent us from analysing the ways in which its federal form has influenced identity formation and articulation. The form of Pakistan's federation has changed radically and Pakistan has experienced several severe ethno-linguistic conflicts. Interestingly however, the community most often associated with nationalist demands, Pashtuns in North-West Frontier Province (…
Contextualising the Teaching of Statistics in Political Science
The teaching of quantitative research methods is an integral part of most postgraduate programmes in politics, but less common at undergraduate level. This article explores the extent to which research methods in general, and quantitative research methods in particular, form part of the curricula of Politics departments in the UK. We then discuss an approach for motivating interest in a subject that tends to be unpopular with many students. We re…
The federal election in Pakistan, February 2008
A Step Towards Inclusive Federalism in Pakistan? The Politics of the 18th Amendment
Pakistan's federal structures have been the subject of controversy since independence. Long-standing demands for change have been made, particularly changes to the vertical and horizontal division of resources and demands for a reorganization of provinces along ethno-linguistic lines. The 18th Constitutional Amendment of 2010 introduced major changes to the federal system, agreed by consensus. But have these changes gone far enough? This article …
Remapping India
The promise of power
A Move to Majoritarian Nationalism? Challenges of Representation in South Asia
Despite India’s status as the world’s largest democracy and increasing turnouts in many of the countries of South Asia, recent elections raise concerns about the threat to democracy in the form of majoritarianism. Many of the countries of South Asia are extremely diverse and (mainly) informal mechanisms of accommodation of minorities have been deployed. At the same time concerns about the threat to minority rights in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka…
Introduction
In this article the special issue on the future of democracy is introduced with a discussion of the rationale and a brief overview of the contributions that follow. In addition the authors highlight four major themes that run through the special issue. These themes are: the measurement of democracy, the importance of time and context for understanding democracy, the importance of institutions in the process of democratization, and the differentia…
Does ethnofederalism explain the success of Indian federalism
Ethnofederalism has been contested as a solution for diverse societies as seen recently in Nepal (where federalism has been accepted, but the design and number of units remains heavily contested) and Myanmar (where ethnic minority demands for increasing federalization have had to take a back seat to the demands for increasing democracy). It remains a heavily contested subject in Sri Lanka. Concerns are expressed that ethnofederalism will increase…
How to understand Pakistan's hybrid regime
Pakistan has had a chequered democratic history but elections in 2013 marked a second turnover in power, and the first transition in Pakistan’s history from one freely elected government to another. How do we best categorize (and therefore understand) political developments in Pakistan? Is it now safe to categorize it as an electoral democracy or is it still a hybrid case of democracy? Using the Pakistani case as an example, this article argues t…
Current challenges to multinational federalism in India
India’s multinational federation has experienced multiple challenges in the last 25 years, relating to the rise of coalition politics and the process of economic liberalization, both of which have increased the power of some of the states of the federation at the expense of others. The internal borders of India continue to be restructured, with the latest state, Telangana, created in 2014. India is often seen as a successful multinational federat…
In their own words
In their own words analyses the motivations of one of the most infamous terrorist organisations in South Asia - Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) - responsible for the attack on the Taj Hotel in India in 200
Power‐Sharing in the World's Largest Democracy
India is one of the most diverse countries of the world but operates with a majoritarian Westminster constitution and simple plurality electoral system, albeit also with a federal structure. It was eventually coded as consociational by Arend Lijphart (1996) but this coding was questioned by authors such as Wilkinson (2000) and Adeney (2002). This article assesses the nature of both de jure and de facto power‐sharing in India over its 70 years of …
The Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Pakistan’s Federal System
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is often portrayed as the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative. While much attention has been devoted to its geopolitical repercussions, its impacts on Pakistan’s federal system and interprovincial relations have not yet been explored. Organized around interviews conducted in 2015, 2018, and 2019, this article demonstrates that the construction of the economic corridor is acting as a centripetal fo…
How can we model ethnic democracy? An application to contemporary India
The status of India as the world's largest democracy is often lauded, but the re‐election of the overtly Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019 has increased concerns about the threat to India's multinational democracy and the rule of law. India is not the only democracy facing challenges related to majoritarian nationalism; there has been a worldwide rise in the language of majority ‘rights’ in democratic systems. The importance of ana…
Federalism and regime change
The extent to which de/centralization is shaped by regime change in federations that have experienced periods of autocratic rule is yet to be fully explored. To this end, this article measures static and dynamic de/centralization in Pakistan – a federal country under autocratic rule for long periods – since the introduction of its first constitution in 1956. Drawing on an original dataset compiled by the authors, this article challenges the narra…
Authoritarianism, democracy and de/centralization in federations
What is the impact of democracy/authoritarianism regime change on de/ centralization in federations? Based on the annual coding of three politicoinstitutional aspects, 22 policy fields, and five fiscal categories, this article maps de/centralization in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan from the establishment of their respective federal orders to 2020. It shows that de/centralization varies greatly across its different dimensions as …
Gullimair travels east
In this article, we apply Mair’s concept of ‘party system closure’ to Asian party systems, with particular comparison with his native continent, Europe. Building on Mair’s (2001) conceptualization and Casal Bértoa and Enyedi’s (2021) operationalization of party system institutionalization (PSI), which demonstrates the importance of looking at the supply-side of PSI and the superiority of closure over electoral volatility as a measure of PSI, this…
Global China and Pakistan’s federal politics
The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is one of the most prominent projects under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. While its geopolitical and financial implications have received much attention, CPEC’s mediation through the structures of Pakistan’s federal system has remained comparatively understudied. To fill this gap, this article analyses CPEC’s evolution between 2013 and 2023, revealing both the continuing centralisation of the manage…
Political science (27 works) · Law (23 works) · Politics (23 works) · Law (22 works) · Economics (21 works) · Political economy (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Development economics (15 works) · Democracy (13 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (13 works)