TY  - JOUR
AB  - In this paper, we propose to reconcile the controversial debate on Muslim "vote banks" in India
by shifting the spatial focus from state-wide assessments to the level of constituencies. At the
example of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 general elections, and using an innovative
booth-level ecological inference model, we show that Muslims might indeed vote en bloc for or
against certain parties, but they tend to do so in a much more localised way than previously
assumed. While public Muslim support for the BJP did not translate into electoral support in most
places, there are important exceptions to this trend – and at least in the case of Uttar Pradesh, their
support for competing parties followed a fairly complex spatial pattern. We further explore this
spatial variation in Muslim vote pattern by looking at the moderating impact of minority
concentration, violent communal history, and ethnic co-ordination and conclude with a call for more
disaggregated research.
DA  - 2014
LA  - eng
IS  - 39
M2  - 99
PY  - 2014
SN  - 0012-9976
SP  - 99-110
T2  - Economic & Political Weekly
TI  - Spatial variation in the "Muslim vote" in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, 2014
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-26940998
Y2  - 2024-12-26T20:03:44
ER  -