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Comment: Personality factor and party system in India.

  • UPSC 1992
  • 20 marks
  • Party System

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Max Weber set charismatic authority, which rests on devotion to an extraordinary individual, beside traditional and legal-rational authority. He warned that charisma is unstable until it is routinised into offices and rules. Indian parties have been founded, remade and split by personalities. At each stage, the shape of the party system has depended on how…

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  • Four phases of the personality factor
  • Nehru: charisma within the Congress system
  • Indira Gandhi: plebiscitary personalism
  • Regional charisma and the multi-party system
  • The present: the founder and the organisation
  • Assessment
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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