The microfoundations of identity politics in Pakistan's megacity
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- How do we make multi-ethnic, conflict-prone cities "work"? Urbanization offers an enormous opportunity to revive stagnating economics and lift millions out of poverty. This potential, however, can only be realized if proper attention is paid to the question of how best to manage such growth. If the growth of cities depends necessarily on in-migration of new populations, the causes and consequences of such migration deserve considered attention. One consequence of rapid urbanization and demographic change is the development of ethnic political parties that promise to advocate for the rights of particular identity groups. What accounts for the success or failure of ethnic parties in mobilizing urban populations in diverse cities? And what are the governance consequences of this form of politics? The three papers that constitute this dissertation project aim to answer these questions by exploring in-depth the megacity of Karachi, Pakistan. A central concept linking all three papers is that of descriptive ethnic representation. Chapter 1 shows that the demand for descriptive representation can systematically differ between urban ethnic groups based on their reason for migration to the city. Chapter 2 shows that once ethnic parties successfully leverage a demand for descriptive representation, they are better able to avoid accountability for poor governance on material dimensions -- such as on the provision of basic public goods. Chapter 3 shows that the relationship between coethnicity and citizen expectations of police bias is moderated by the level of perceived descriptive representation in the police forces. Altogether, these papers illustrate the abundant and as yet underexplored within-urban variation in the workings of ethnic politics, thereby enriching our pool of knowledge on how ethnicity structures the political landscape of cities in the global south.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Malik, Mashail Aman |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Fearon, James D |
| Degree supervisor | Laitin, David D |
| Thesis advisor | Fearon, James D |
| Thesis advisor | Laitin, David D |
| Thesis advisor | Magaloni, Beatriz |
| Thesis advisor | Scheve, Kenneth F |
| Thesis advisor | Weinstein, Jeremy M |
| Degree committee member | Magaloni, Beatriz |
| Degree committee member | Scheve, Kenneth F |
| Degree committee member | Weinstein, Jeremy M |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Mashail A. Malik. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Mashail Aman Malik
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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