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NEPAL - MAOIST INSURGENCY (3) answer(s).
 
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Between democracy and revolution: peasant support for insurgency versus democracy in Nepal / Joshi, Madhav; Mason, T David   Journal Article
Mason, T David Journal Article
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Publication 2008.
Summary/Abstract The Maoist insurgency in Nepal presents an anomaly for students of civil war and democratic transitions. How was the Maoist wing of the Nepal Communist Party able to mobilize peasants to support their insurgency when they could not mobilize enough peasants to vote for them in elections? The authors address these questions by exploring the ways in which the persistence of traditional clientelist networks in the countryside enabled rural elites to mobilize peasants to vote for parties other than the Maoist party, even though peasants would have benefited from that party's advocacy for land reform. When that same party used insurgent violence against rural elites, peasants were willing and able to support the insurgency and abstain from voting in the 1999 election in locales where the insurgency succeeded in disrupting clientelist ties. The authors test these arguments with district-level data on election turnout and the distribution of households among several land-tenure categories. Findings support the argument that turnout was greater where land-tenure patterns gave landed elite greater influence over peasant political behavior. Where higher levels of insurgent violence disrupted patterns of clientelist dependency, turnout declined. What electoral democracy could not deliver to peasants - land reform and relief from clientelist dependency - the Maoist insurgency promised to bring through political violence
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Experiment with a hybrid regime in Nepal (1990-2006) / Parajulee, Ramjee   Journal Article
Parajulee, Ramjee Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
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Maoist conflict in Nepal: a Himalayan perdition / Cottle, Drew; Keys, Angela   Journal Article
Cottle, Drew Journal Article
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Publication 2007.
Summary/Abstract What have been the consequences of the Maoists' decade-long campaign in Nepal? The rebellion that emerged in 1996 can be understood as symptomatic of the nation's struggle for democracy with its origins in the nation's social and economic inequalities, and in the failure of parliamentary democracy in Nepal. However the conflict has important regional and international dimensions. The conflict has been disconcerting for China and India, particularly given the increased U.S. involvement in Nepali affairs in the current context of the war on terror. Had the war occured half a century earlier in the era of Third World independence movements, it may have been viewed differently.
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