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Identify the reasons for the resilience of democratic system in India.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Politics and Society in India

Comparative political sociology predicted India would fail. Seymour Martin Lipset's "Some Social Requisites of Democracy" (1959) tied stable democracy to wealth, literacy and urbanisation; Barrington Moore Jr. (Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, 1966) thought India had bought democracy at the price of modernisation. That India has instead held eighteen general elections and survived one…

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  • Institutional design: accommodation rather than assimilation
  • A party system that recruited society rather than excluding it
  • Elections as a ritual of legitimacy
  • Countervailing institutions and civic life
  • Conclusion

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