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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 September 2009
      04 June 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511521584
      9780521345866
      9780521029759
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521584
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.424kg, 232 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.306kg, 232 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
      Series:
      Cambridge South Asian Studies (48)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
    Series:
    Cambridge South Asian Studies (48)
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    Sri Lanka is one of the few new Commonwealth countries to have had a strong democratic tradition and a vibrant electoral life since Independence. In this book, Dilesh Jayanntha examines the basis for Sri Lankan electoral allegiance since 1947. He challenges the prevalent notion that caste is the basis for electoral allegiance and convincingly argues that the patron-client relationship is its primary determinant. Following an introduction outlining recent Sri Lankan political history, Dilesh Jayanntha then examines electoral allegiance in three contrasting constituencies which have a different history up until 1947. Yet, as the author demonstrates throughout, patronage networks determined electoral allegiance, and often, the patronage network was congruent with caste. Yet, as Jayanntha shows, where the patron-client tie cut across the caste tie it was the former which proved decisive in deciding electoral allegiance. This comparative analysis of electorates in Sri Lanka addresses issues that are relevant not only to South Asia but to the developing world in general.

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