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Discuss the role of social movements in strengthening the democratic processes in developing societies.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 15 marks
  • Politics of Representation and Participation

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A social movement, in Sidney Tarrow's sense, is a sustained collective challenge by people with shared purpose, pursued largely outside routine institutions. In developing societies, where parties are often weak, clientelist or elite-captured, movements perform much of the work democratic theory assigns to representation. Their role is substantial, but conditional on institutions able to absorb…

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