Oldenburg, Philips

India, Pakistan, and democracy: solving the puzzle of divergent paths/ Philip Oldenburg - London: Routledge, 2010. - 273p.



1. Introduction: Why India is a Democracy and Pakistan is not (yet?) a Democracy

Part 1: The First Thirty Years of Independence
2. Inheritances of Colonial rule
3. Constitutional & Political Choices, in the initial years
4. Institutionalizing Democracy
5. Who (Really) Governs?

Part 2: From 1977 to the present
6. 1977 as a Turning Point?
7. Religion as an Explanation
8. External Influences
9. Clearly Diverging Paths
10. Prospects for Path Convergence in the Next Decades
11. Conclusion




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Democracia -- India.
Democracia -- Pakistan

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