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Party Formation, Political Power, and the Capacity for Reform: Comparing Left Parties in Kerala and West Bengal, India

This article discusses the concept of "partyformation," that is, the historically evolved links between a party and the civilsociety from which its political power is derived. This concept is developed through an empirical analysis of differences in poverty eradication by leftist parties i...

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Main Author: MANALI DESAI
Format: Printed Book
Published: Social Forces, 2001
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Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/006628.pdf
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