Elections as communitas

Elections as communitas Social Research, 78 (1). pp. 75-98. ISSN 0037-783X

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This essay examines the state of elections within India and discusses why voter turnout remains at approximately 60 percent in a nation where the citizens realize that the material conditions of their lives will not improve from one election to the next. The state of Indian democracy is discussed, and the author concludes that the electoral process provides a sense of community and egalitarianism that suspends the rules of typical social order.

Item Type	Article
Departments	Anthropology
Date Deposited	08 Feb 2011 10:46
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/32038

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Banerjee, Mukulika

GN Anthropology
JQ Political institutions Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific

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