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“Collective action in politics can bring integration and disintegration in society.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Politics and Society

Collective action in politics covers parties, movements, agitations, strikes and riots: people acting together to press claims on power (Charles Tilly). The statement is right that such action is double-edged. Whether it integrates or disintegrates depends on what is contested, along which lines people mobilise, and how the state responds.

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