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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Implications of emergence of regional political parties.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Politics and Society in India

Rajni Kothari's "Congress system" (1964) described a one-party dominant order in which a single umbrella party absorbed regional, caste and linguistic demands internally. The rise of regional parties is the collapse of that absorptive capacity, and its consequences reach far beyond the party system into federalism, policy and social representation.

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  • Federal bargaining and coalition government
  • Policy localisation and welfare competition
  • Social representation
  • Costs and limits
  • Conclusion

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