India's political parties
A study of democracy is incomplete without a study of one of its most fundamental components—political parties. In India, works on the country’s political parties so far have explored, among other things,
Political Parties
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Spirit of Mandate 1996
Although women did not figure prominently in this year's elections, women power definitely proved to be a very heady potion for aspiring candidates
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A hand in every pie
AS THE party in power at the Centre for 45 out of 49 years, the Congress(i), with all its factions, can be held mainly responsible for India's achievements and failures. In the politically
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Promises to keep...
With the 1996 general elections just around the corner, the nation's premier political parties are back to making elaborate 'green' promises. But behind the tall claims and pledges of their manifestoes, are they really serious about the problems that pl
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Vote for the environment
The parliamentary elections are just around the corner and activists throughout the country are keen to project the environment as an issue before the electorate. The first to do so was
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The great American whims
The murky wrangle between environmental zeroes and heroes of the 104th Congress in the US becomes evident
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What is to be done
AS THE general elections approach, a number of independent initiatives to influence the mainstream political process are coming up. The overriding concern of most of these initiatives by the non
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Utterly unbutterly
Politicians dip their greasy palms into a successful cooperative venture to corner the cream
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Nomadic voters
Chief Election Commissioner T N Seshan has sent a missive to district administrations instructing them to register various communities which hitherto had been left out of electoral and census lists
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Greening German politics
The Green party, until recently the dark horse of German politics, is finally sitting pretty in the Bundestag, after years in the radical fringe