Migrants and Machine Politics (eBook)

How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness

Adam Michael Auerbach, Tariq Thachil (Autoren)

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2023
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23610-0 (ISBN)

Infos

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanizationAs the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons, bought off by wily politicians, or polarized by ethnic appeals. Migrants and Machine Politics shows how slum residents in India routinely defy such portrayals, actively constructing and wielding political machine networks to demand important, albeit imperfect, representation and responsiveness within the country's expanding cities.Drawing on years of pioneering fieldwork in India's slums, including ethnographic observation, interviews, surveys, and experiments, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil reveal how migrants harness forces of political competition-as residents, voters, community leaders, and party workers-to sow unexpected seeds of accountability within city politics. This multifaceted agency provokes new questions about how political networks form during urbanization. In answering these questions, this book overturns longstanding assumptions about how political machines exploit the urban poor to stifle competition, foster ethnic favoritism, and entrench vote buying.By documenting how poor migrants actively shape urban politics in counterintuitive ways, Migrants and Machine Politics sheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
• Zusatzinfo: 35 b/w illus. 3 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • accountant • Accra • almoner • Amendment • Apprenticeship • at-will employment • autarky • autocracy • Azim Premji University • Barbarian • Bharatiya Janata Party • bribery • Bureaucracy • bureaucrat • Business Standard • Capitalism • Career • chairman • Clientelism • Competition • contentious politics • Cost–benefit analysis • Customer • dividend • Economic Life • economic problem • Economic Theory (journal) • Electoral district • Emergence • Employment • ethnography • financier • Gang • Governance • Gram panchayat • Grassroots Party • Identity document • Identity politics • incumbent • jacksonian democracy • Jati • Jhunjhunu district • laborer • labour law • Legislator • Localism (politics) • Mahatma Gandhi • Market Economy • Nagar (princely state) • of education • Opinion Poll • Party System • Payment • People Power (Hong Kong) • Peronism • Political Campaign • political climate • political machine • Political myth • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Politics of India • predatory lending • Preference (economics) • procurement • Profiteering (business) • profit motive • racial hierarchy • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • Regionalism (politics) • Remainder (law) • Rent-Seeking • Reputation • Requirement • Respondent • Revenue • Rochdale Principles • salary • Service Tax • shopkeeper • Slavery • Slum • Social Darwinism • Social Transformation • State Government • Stationery • Supply (economics) • survey methodology • tariff • Trade-off • Voting • Whigs (British political party) • Workforce • Working Class • workplace
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23610-0 / 0691236100
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23610-0 / 9780691236100