Room to maneuver in the middle: local elites, political action, and the state in India

The intuitively plausible relationship between protest behavior and political instability is empirically supported by a large number of studies. Statistical evidence in support of this conjecture is provided by the correlation between indicators of protest behavior such as the presence of extremist...

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Main Author: Mitra, Subrata Kumar (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: April 1991
In: World politics
Year: 1991, Volume: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 390-413
ISSN:1086-3338
DOI:10.2307/2010400
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