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Democracy under duress: patronage, class and the Pakistani voter

Pakistan’s political parties: Surviving between dictatorship and democracy, edited by Mariam Mufti, Sahar Shafqat, and Niloufer Siddiqui, Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 2020, 336 pp., £37.50 (paperback), ISBN 9781626167711; The politics of common sense: State, society and culture in Pakistan, by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 212 pp., £75 (hardback), ISBN 9781107155664; Crafty oligarchs, savvy voters: Democracy under inequality in rural Pakistan, by Shandana Khan Mohmand, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 320 pp., £85 (hardback), ISBN 9781108473637

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