Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in Sri Lanka
Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in Sri Lanka

Author: Pradeep Peiris

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-11-20

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 9811641536

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This book systematically maps the evolution of the party–voter nexus of the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). In doing so, it argues that these parties rely mostly on a complex Web of patronage-based networks to mobilise electorates. They employ informal and highly dynamic, loosely knit networks as their organisational structures at the local level. They mainly focus on mobilising voters through local political actors rather than maintaining clear party bases and membership schemes. The study highlights the salience of personalities at the national as well as local levels in forming electoral support for the parties. These individuals exploit their economic, social, and cultural capital to mobilise the most efficient network that would strengthen their party during elections. The study also analyses the emergence of two new coalition centres from within these traditional parties, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), and argues that these parties, though portraying themselves as new, have in fact retained the overall logic of the party–voter nexus by appropriating the organisational schemes and structures of their predecessors.

Parties and Political Change in South Asia
Parties and Political Change in South Asia

Author: James Chiriyankandath

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-18

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780367739201

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Over the past seven decades and more, political parties have become an essential feature of the political landscape of the South Asian subcontinent, serving both as a conduit and product of the tumultuous change the region has experienced. Yet they have not been the focus of sustained scholarly attention. This collection focuses on different aspects of how major parties have been agents of - and subject to - change in three South Asian states (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), examining some of the apparent paradoxes of politics in the subcontinent and covering issues such as gender, religion, patronage, clientelism, political recruitment and democratic regression. Recurring themes are the importance of personalities (and the corresponding neglect of institutionalisation) and the lack of pluralism in intraparty affairs, factors that render parties and political systems vulnerable to degeneration. This book was published as a special issue of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.

Political Parties in South Asia
Political Parties in South Asia

Author: K. C. Suri

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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With one-fifth of the global population, South Asia is the largest democratic region in the world today even though military rule and monarchy still exist in certain countries. Political parties have played an active role in decolonization, freedom struggles and social change in the region and have been responsible for marrying democracy with development and social justice. Yet research shows that 40 per cent of the population in South Asia do not trust political parties, while only 11 per cent of those surveyed express great trust. Political Parties in South Asia: The Challenge of Change provides a comparative view of the conditions, roles and functioning of political parties in five countries of the South Asian region ¡ Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The publication builds on empirical information collected from 49 parties and addresses the challenges of politics as experienced by the key political actors themselves: the political parties. In addition, it includes practical recommendations for reforms in the party domain. By providing comparative information, this International IDEA publication aims to stimulate debate on the challenges faced by political parties in South Asia. It is especially aimed at political parties, scholars, policy makers and democracy assistance organizations working for political reform in South Asia.

Partisan Odysseys
Partisan Odysseys

Author: Nelson Wiseman

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2020-04-23

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1487525397

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Motifs or recurring elements in Canadian party politics speak to dominant ideas of the era. Partisan Odysseys looks at how political parties have adjusted, adapted, and sometimes reinvented themselves in response to these cultural cues.

Sri Lanka's Secrets
Sri Lanka's Secrets

Author: Trevor Grant

Publisher: Monash University Publishing

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1922235539

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As the civil war in Sri Lanka drew to its bloody end in 2009 the government of this island nation removed its protection from UN officials and employees, who, along with other international observers, were forced to leave the conflict zone. President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his inner circle wanted, it seemed, a war without witness. The end result was the deliberate slaughter of an estimated 70,000 innocent civilians. However, many survivors, and some who died, were able to capture on camera the horrifying conclusion to the war and the cruel deprivations of the internment camps that followed. Today, through their images and testimony, Rajapaksa stands accused of war crimes. In Sri Lanka’s Secrets experienced journalist Trevor Grant presents the shocking story of the final days of this war, alongside the photographs and eye-witness accounts of many Tamils, including Maravan, a social worker who fled to Australia by boat after being tortured by soldiers seeking his folio of photographs. Grant also details the continuing torture and abuse of Tamils in Sri Lanka, and some national governments’ ongoing support for a regime that has abandoned any pretense of democracy. Foremost among these enthusiastic supporters has been the Government of Australia, cynically preoccupied with ‘stopping the boats’ fleeing Sri Lankan state terror. At any cost.

Politics in Sri Lanka, 1947-1979
Politics in Sri Lanka, 1947-1979

Author: A. Jeyaratnam Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780333262085

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This Book Examines The Interelationships Between The Island`S Various Social, Religios And Ethni Groups, The Progress Of The Economy And The Processes Which Manipulate Change. This Revised Edition Not Only Updates Events But Makes Fresh Analyses In The Context Of Developments From 1973 To 1979. First End Page Missing, Bookseller`S Stamp On The Title Page, Text Absolutely Clean, Black Mark On The Last End Page, Condition Good

Government and Politics in Sri Lanka
Government and Politics in Sri Lanka

Author: A. R. Rajah

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-04-21

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1351968009

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This book analyses where Sri Lanka stands as a state that has in place liberal democratic state-institutions but exhibits the characteristics of an authoritarian state. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the author argues that Sri Lanka enacted racist legislations and perpetrated mass-atrocities on the Tamils as part of its biopolitics of institutionalising and securing a Sinhala-Buddhist ethnocratic state-order. The book also explores the ways that, apart from military action, power relations produce the effects of battle, and thus the way that peace can often become a means of waging war.