TY - BOOK AU - Waseem,Mohammad TI - Political conflict in Pakistan T2 - The comparative politics and international studies series SN - 9780197650219 (ebook) : AV - JQ629.A58 U1 - 320.95491 23 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Hurst & Company KW - Pakistan KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions N1 - Previously issued in print: 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - Political conflict is endemic to a postcolonial state such as Pakistan. Reformulation of the political system after independence draws on a gradual encroachment of tradition defined in terms of identity and ideology over modernity represented by institutional design and citizen orientations. Partition led to structural discontinuity in Pakistan as a seceding state as opposed to India which was a successor state. This book explores the way militarization and judicialization of politics centralized state authority and rendered the federalist arrangement into an empty shell UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197631300.001.0001 ER -