Political conflict in Pakistan / Mohammad Waseem.
Series: Comparative politics and international studies series: ; Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2022Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197650219 (ebook) :Subject(s): Pakistan -- Politics and government | Pakistan -- Social conditionsAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197631300DDC classification: 320.95491 LOC classification: JQ629.A58Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Previously issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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