TY - BOOK ID - 119264643 TI - Electoral practice and the Election Commission of India : politics, institutions and democracy PY - 2023 SN - 1009346857 100936975X 1009346865 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Elections KW - Political participation KW - Democracy KW - Management. KW - Election Commission of India. KW - Electoral politics KW - Franchise KW - Polls KW - Political science KW - Politics, Practical KW - Plebiscite KW - Political campaigns KW - Representative government and representation KW - India. KW - Bhārata Nirvācana Āyoga UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119264643 AB - "This book offers an insight into the contribution of the Election Commission of India (EC) to the Indian democratic process through its regulatory role in conducting elections between 1990 and 2019. It elaborates upon the EC's interactions with pivotal state institutions - the parliament, the Supreme Court and political parties - to streamline democratic procedures during the aforementioned period. It demonstrates a comparison between important electoral procedures in India and those in other liberal democracies (Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and South Africa, among others) to highlight the role of electoral institutions in democratisation. It also studies the sociopolitical situatedness of the EC as a body that moulds the political culture in India"-- ER -