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When crime pays : money and muscle in Indian politics / / Milan Vaishnav
When crime pays : money and muscle in Indian politics / / Milan Vaishnav
Autore Vaishnav Milan
Pubbl/distr/stampa New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (435 pages)
Disciplina 364.13230954
Soggetto topico Political corruption - India
HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note to Readers -- PART I -- 1. Lawmakers and Lawbreakers: The Puzzle of Indian Democracy -- 2. The Rise of the Rents Raj: India's Corruption Ecosystem -- PART II -- 3. Criminal Enterprise: Why Criminals Joined Politics -- 4. The Costs of Democracy: How Money Fuels Muscle in Elections -- 5. Doing Good by Doing Bad: The Demand for Criminality -- 6. The Salience of Social Divisions: How Context Shapes Criminality -- PART III -- 7. Crime without Punishment: From Deep Roots to Proximate Causes -- 8. An Entrenched Marketplace: Rethinking Democratic Accountability -- Appendix A: Details of the Affidavit Dataset -- Appendix B: Details of Bihar Voter Survey -- Appendix C: Details of Lok Social Attitudes Survey -- Notes -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910157411503321
Vaishnav Milan  
New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2017]
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The wild east : criminal political economies in South Asia / / edited by Barbara Harriss-White, Lucia Michelutti
The wild east : criminal political economies in South Asia / / edited by Barbara Harriss-White, Lucia Michelutti
Pubbl/distr/stampa London : , : UCL Press, , 2019
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages)
Disciplina 364.13230954
Soggetto topico Business enterprises - Corrupt practices - India
Business enterprises - Corrupt practices - Bangladesh
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The criminal economics and politics of black coal in Jharkhand, 2014 -- 2. Jharia's century-old fire kept ablaze by crime and politics -- 3. Sand and the politics of plunder in Tamil Nadu, India -- 4. Himalayan 'hydro-criminality'? Dams, development and politics in Arunachal Pradesh, India -- 5. Crime in the air: spectrum markets and the telecommunications sector in India -- 6. The inter-state criminal life of sand and oil in North India 7. 'Red sanders mafia' in South India: violence, electoral democracy and labour -- 8. The 'land and real estate mafia', West Bengal, East India -- 9. Politics, capital and land grabs in Punjab, India -- 10. The politics of contracting in provincial Bangladesh -- 11. Putting out the Baldia factory fire: how the trial of Karachi's industrial capitalism did not happen -- Epilogue South Asian criminal economies -- Appendix Laws alleged or established to have been broken - with main offenders -- Glossary -- Index.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910682517803321
London : , : UCL Press, , 2019
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