Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Volume 59, Issue 2 (2021)

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Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Volume 59, Issue 2 (2021)

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Obituary

Obituary
David Potter (1932–2020)
James Manor
Page: 127
Published online: 02 Mar 2021
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Linking trust, performance, and governance quality: what can explain the incongruity?
Hasan Muhammad Baniamin
Pages: 128-148
Published online: 17 Jan 2021
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Transnational litigation against the mandatory death penalty and anti-sodomy laws: a new Commonwealth human rights strategy?
Andrew Novak
Pages: 149-168
Published online: 23 Dec 2020
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Co-opting the state: how weak parties can make stable party systems
Albertus Schoeman
Pages: 169-192
Published online: 03 Mar 2021
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Review Articles

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Patronage vs. ideology in Indian politics
Adnan Naseemullah
Pages: 193-214
Published online: 08 Apr 2021
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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
Erum A. Haider
Pages: 215-224
Published online: 16 Mar 2021
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Book Reviews

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Mission Bengal: a saffron experiment
by Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Noida, HarperCollins, 2020, xi + 273 pp., Rs 599 (Hardback), ISBN 9789353579494
Subrata K. Mitra
Pages: 225-227
Published online: 09 Mar 2021
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Kashmir as a borderland: the politics of space and belonging across the Line of Control
by Antía Mato Bouzas, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2019, 205 pp., € 89 (hardback), ISBN 9789463729406
Tusharika Deka
Pages: 227-229
Published online: 15 Mar 2021
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The Wild East: criminal political economies in South Asia
edited by Barbara Harriss-White and Lucia Michelutti, London, UCL Press, 2019, xiii + 365 pp., Open Access (E-book), ISBN: 9781787353237
Andrew Wyatt
Pages: 229-232
Published online: 11 Mar 2021
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Business and politics in India
edited by Christophe Jaffrelot, Atul Kohli, and Kanta Murali, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, 322 pp., £22.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780190912475
Jørgen Dige Pedersen
Pages: 232-234
Published online: 16 Mar 2021
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Social justice through inclusion: the consequences of electoral quotas in India
by Francesca R. Jensenius, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, xvii + 228 pp., £79 (hardback), ISBN 9780190646608
Shilp Shikha Singh
Pages: 234-236
Published online: 16 Mar 2021
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Gender, development and the state in India
by Carole Spary, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, xii + 257 pp., £36.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780367661045
Rina Verma Williams
Pages: 236-238
Published online: 16 Mar 2021
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