The dissertation will address the ongoing debate in Comparative Politics about the
virtues and pathologies of rational choice theory by testing competing hypotheses and
predictions to account for three aspects of party politics in India: the transformation of the
Indian political party system from a predominant to an even multiparty system; the
politics of government formation; and the politics of government stability.
Overall, the dissertation will pursue two arguments. First, rational choice models
and predictions can account for the empirical cases more consistently than hypotheses
and predictions derived from other paradigms. Second, by using India as the case on
which to test competing theories, it will be shown that non-Western political phenomena
are not sui generis and they may be accounted for in terms of comparative theory the
same way as Western phenomena have been. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/10833 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Nikolenyi, Csaba |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
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