The Changing Face of Parties and Party Systems

Part I. Parties and Party Systems: A Conceptual Framework

1. Theorizing Parties and Party Systems
Sunil K. Choudhary

2. Locating Israeli and Indian Parties and Party Systems
Sunil K. Choudhary

Part II. Parties and the State Formation

3.
Yishuv
: The Pre-state Period in Israel
Sunil K. Choudhary

4. Indian National Congress: From a ‘Safety Valve
’ to the Political Pioneer of Freedom Struggle
Sunil K. Choudhary

Part III. Parties in the Post-independence Polities: From Predominance to Pluralism

5. Mapaivot vs Congress System
Sunil K. Choudhary

6. Mahapach vs Janata Parivar
Sunil K. Choudhary

7. Toward a Coalitional Multipolarity
Sunil K. Choudhary

Part IV. Ideological Roots, Social Bases and Electoral Patterns of the Parties: Exploring Israel and India

8. The Left-Wing Parties (Socialist Block)
Sunil K. Choudhary

9. The Right-Wing Parties (Nationalist Block)
Sunil K. Choudhary

10. The Centrist Parties (Centrist Block)
Sunil K. Choudhary

11. The Ethno-Religious Parties (Ethno-Religious Block)
Sunil K. Choudhary

12. The Arab Parties (Arab Block)
Sunil K. Choudhary

Part V. Parties and the Government Making

13. Coalition Politics in Israel and India
Sunil K. Choudhary

14. Competing Issues of Governance: Israel and India Compared
Sunil K. Choudhary

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, Political Science, Regionalism, Development and Post-Colonialism, Political Sociology