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PROF Rochana Bajpai's Outputs (32)

Winning big: The political logic of winning elections with large margins in India (2022)
Journal Article
Bajpai, R., & Saez, L. (2022). Winning big: The political logic of winning elections with large margins in India. India Review, 21(1), 21-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2021.2018200

Politicians winning elections with large margins of victory, beyond what is necessary to win electoral contests,what we term “winning big”, is a common, yet under-studied phenomenon across the world. Political economy models suggest that winning big... Read More about Winning big: The political logic of winning elections with large margins in India.

Mechanisms of democratic authoritarianism: de-centring the executive in South Asia and beyond (2022)
Journal Article
Bajpai, R., & Kureshi, Y. (2022). Mechanisms of democratic authoritarianism: de-centring the executive in South Asia and beyond. Democratization, 29(8), 1375-1396. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2022.2062324

How do we theorize the unexpected global trend of democratic regression? Building upon recent literature on backsliding, we offer a new conceptualization of the notion of democratic authoritarianism, denoting the use of democratic-looking institution... Read More about Mechanisms of democratic authoritarianism: de-centring the executive in South Asia and beyond.

Pluralizing Pluralism: Lessons from, and for, India (2022)
Journal Article
Bajpai, R. (2022). Pluralizing Pluralism: Lessons from, and for, India. The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 20(1), 27-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/15570274.2022.2031046

Embracing religious belief and societal norms, in addition to state laws and policies, covenantal pluralism has the potential to address key limitations of existing approaches to dealing with religious diversity. Nevertheless, it also shares some of... Read More about Pluralizing Pluralism: Lessons from, and for, India.

Religious pluralism and the state in India: Towards a typology (2021)
Book Chapter
Bajpai, R. (2021). Religious pluralism and the state in India: Towards a typology. In K. Barkey, S. Kaviraj, & V. Naresh (Eds.), Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism: India, Pakistan, and Turkey (139-156). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197530016.003.0007

This chapter delineates and disaggregates a relatively neglected category, that of political pluralism. I argue, first, that historically, India has offered an important example of plurality in policy, with a multiplicity of state approaches and disp... Read More about Religious pluralism and the state in India: Towards a typology.

Liberalisms in India (2020)
Book Chapter
Bajpai, R. (2020). Liberalisms in India. In L. K. Jenco, M. Idris, & M. C. Thomas (Eds.), Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (485-503). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190253752.013.2

Liberal ideas in India are relatively understudied as liberalism, although these have been examined as part of other ideologies, such as nationalism, socialism, and secularism.This chapter offers an exploratory sketch of strands of liberalism in Indi... Read More about Liberalisms in India.

What do descriptive representatives describe? Minority representative claims and the limits of Shape-shifting (2019)
Journal Article
Bajpai, R. (2019). What do descriptive representatives describe? Minority representative claims and the limits of Shape-shifting. Ethnicities, 19(5), 740-762. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796819847497

In contemporary debates on diversity, minorities are characterized mostly in terms of their cultural difference from the majority. Scholars have tended to focus on the role of minority representatives as advocates of their group interests in legislat... Read More about What do descriptive representatives describe? Minority representative claims and the limits of Shape-shifting.

Non-extremist Outbidding: Muslim Leadership in Majoritarian India (2018)
Journal Article
Bajpai, R., & Farooqui, A. (2018). Non-extremist Outbidding: Muslim Leadership in Majoritarian India. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 24(3), 276-298. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2018.1489487

How do parties representing minorities survive and expand at a time of majoritarian nationalism? Influential accounts suggest that the rise of majoritarianism should give rise to corresponding extremism (outbidding) in minority parties. Through a det... Read More about Non-extremist Outbidding: Muslim Leadership in Majoritarian India.

Secularism and Multiculturalism in India: Some Reflections (2017)
Book Chapter
Bajpai, R. (2017). Secularism and Multiculturalism in India: Some Reflections. In A. Triandafyllidou, & T. Modood (Eds.), The Problems of Religious Diversity: European Challenges, Asian Approaches (204-227). Edinburgh University Press

Why did India choose pluralism? Lessons from a post-colonial state (2017)
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Bajpai, R. (2017). Why did India choose pluralism? Lessons from a post-colonial state

India, a highly diverse society, is an endangered pluralist polity. An early adopter of a constitutional framework that recognized group-differentiated rights, India is now challenged by forces that threaten its fragile political consensus. This pape... Read More about Why did India choose pluralism? Lessons from a post-colonial state.

Democracy (2015)
Book Chapter
Bajpai, R. (2015). Democracy. In G. D. Frick, M. K. Steinbach, R. Dwyer, & J. Phalkey (Eds.), Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies (56-60). Oxford University Press

From Ideas to Hegemony: Ideational change and Affirmative action policy in Malaysia, 1955-2010 (2013)
Journal Article
Bajpai, R., & Brown, G. K. (2013). From Ideas to Hegemony: Ideational change and Affirmative action policy in Malaysia, 1955-2010. Journal of Political Ideologies, 18(3), 257-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2013.831582

This article proposes a new approach to hegemony, recast as a tool to capture the power of ideas at the systemic level. Hegemony is conceptualized as a condition in which a set of ideas is accepted by political actors with conflicting interests and a... Read More about From Ideas to Hegemony: Ideational change and Affirmative action policy in Malaysia, 1955-2010.

Liberalisms in India: A Sketch (2012)
Book Chapter
Bajpai, R. (2012). Liberalisms in India: A Sketch. In B. Jackson, & M. Stears (Eds.), Liberalism as Ideology: Essays in Honour of Michael Freeden (53-76). Oxford University Press

Debating Difference: Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India (2011)
Book
Bajpai, R. (2011). Debating Difference: Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198067504.001.0001

How can inequalities between groups be addressed, while at the same time sustaining common citizenship? Debating Difference offers a new approach to this key question for liberal democracies across the world, demonstrating that argument and debate is... Read More about Debating Difference: Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India.