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Positive Political Theory and Politics in Contemporary India: An Application of a Positive Political Model in Non-Western Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2002
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This article argues against the apparent aversion to apply positive political models in the comparative literature on non-Western politics. To provide an example of the utility of such models, the article draws on Peter Van Roozendaal's game theoretical model of cabinet stability to account for the instability of coalition governments in India. It argues that government durability in this non-Western democracy can be modeled as the function of the motivations and incentives of two sets of key actors, the dominant and the central parties, the same way as it can in a Western context.
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- Research Article
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- Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , December 2002 , pp. 881 - 896
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- © The Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique
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