Between Democracy and Revolution
Peasant Support for Insurgency versus Democracy in Nepal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3917465 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Madhav Joshi (0000-0003-2635-9540, University of North Texas, corresponding author), T David Mason (0000-0003-2953-624X, University of North Texas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 765-782 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022343308096155 |
| OpenAlex | W2148874115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 19 |
The Maoist insurgency in Nepal presents an anomaly for students of civil war and democratic transitions. How was the Maoist wing of the Nepal Communist Party able to mobilize peasants to support their insurgency when they could not mobilize enough peasants to vote for them in elections? The authors address these questions by exploring the ways in which the persistence of traditional clientelist networks in the countryside enabled rural elites to mobilize peasants to vote for parties other than the Maoist party, even though peasants would have benefited from that party's advocacy for land reform. When that same party used insurgent violence against rural elites, peasants were willing and able to support the insurgency and abstain from voting in the 1999 election in locales where the insurgency succeeded in disrupting clientelist ties. The authors test these arguments with district-level data on election turnout and the distribution of households among several land-tenure categories. Findings support the argument that turnout was greater where land-tenure patterns gave landed elite greater influence over peasant political behavior. Where higher levels of insurgent violence disrupted patterns of clientelist dependency, turnout declined. What electoral democracy could not deliver to peasants - land reform and relief from clientelist dependency - the Maoist insurgency promised to bring through political violence
Clientelism · Communism · Democracy · Democratization · Elite · Insurgency · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turnout · Voting · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nepal
Territorial Control, Levels of Violence, and the Electoral Performance of Former Rebel Political Parties After Civil Wars
Insurgency
Changes in the socioeconomic structure and the attitude of citizens toward democracy in the Nepali civil war
Voting in the Shadow of Violence
Role of Economic Development and Governance in Mitigating Insurgency
Civil War Induced Social Rupture and Transformative Changes
Seeds of peace? Land reform and civil war recurrence following negotiated settlements
The Wartime Origins of Democratization
Land Reform Versus Repression in Counterinsurgency
Whose land is it? Land reform, minorities, and the titular “nation” in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan
Land Tenure, Democracy, and Patterns of Violence During the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal, 1996-2005
The evolution of industrial relations in Nepal
Relative Capacity and the Spread of Rebellion
Land Reform as a Counterinsurgency Policy
Peasants, Patrons, and Parties
Connectivity, Clientelism and Public Provision
Rewriting the rules of land reform
Civil war violence and competing legitimacy claims
Agrarian Inequality and Civil War Revisited
Who kills whom? The micro-dynamics of civilian targeting in civil war
Spatial–Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal
Human Development Report 2004
Greed and grievance in civil war
Democracy and Redistribution
Civil-Military Relations and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal
What Makes Democracies Endure
Land Reform and the Breakdown of Clientelist Politics in El Salvador
Civil War in the Post-Colonial World, 1946-92
Some Social Requisites of Democracy
Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816-1992
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
Democracy and Development in Nepal
The Moral Economy of the Peasant
Explaining Revolutions in the Contemporary Third World
States and Social Revolutions
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |