CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Thakkar, Chirayu Chandrakant |
|---|---|
| Title | New Analytical Model for Number of Parties and its Application to Indian States |
| Summary | The number of parties has been one of the crucial markers in the comparative understanding of democratic polities. Since the 1950s, substantial intellectual energy has been invested in devising methods and indices to count the number of parties. While some methods have gain prominence, and others have not, the quest still continues. This thesis looks into the efforts of several decades into two camps – continuous and discrete measures – their evolution, strengths, and limitations. It further goes on to propose a new method based on a robust theoretical understanding of parties as a part of the pluralistic whole. The new method is bifold in that there are explicit counting rules followed by a typology that demonstrates the employability of this method. This methodological exercise is appended by coding of 116 Indian state elections that happened in 31 legislatures between 2000-2018. It eventually ends with a conclusion enlisting what has been achieved and what can be done for this model to travel beyond the case of India. |
| Supervisor | Enyedi, Zsolt |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/thakkar_chirayu.pdf |
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