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5. Mapaivot vs Congress System

verfasst von : Sunil K. Choudhary

Erschienen in: The Changing Face of Parties and Party Systems

Verlag: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

The post-independence polities in both Israel and India witnessed dominance of the two major political parties of the colonial era—Mapai in Israel, and Indian National Congress in India. The dominance of the two parties came to be described as Mapaivot and Congress System, which remained the dominant characteristics of the first phase of the party system in both the nations. The period was also marked by the alignment of the voters in the two nations, as the electorate didn’t show any major deviance from their party allegiance in this phase, at least until 1967.The decline of the one-party-dominated system in Israel, or Mapaivot, and the Congress System in India brought about re-alignment of political forces and the electors.

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Fußnoten
1
A cleavage in the analysis of Lipset and Rokkan generally refers to socio-economic division of groups with a corresponding consciousness of their respective strength and their outright organizational expression through parties.
 
2
Hamula, a practice by which the dominant Mapai sought to appease and accommodate the Arab voters.
 
3
Mamlachuit also called Statism—through which Mapai brought out many welfarist policies and programs for its workers.
 
4
Syndicate constituted a group of dominant regional Congress leaders. It became very powerful after the death of Nehru in 1964.
 
5
It was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from 6-25 October 1973. The war was a big setback, both to the Labor Alignment and the idea of the ‘invincibility of the Israeli state’. The war, besides witnessing a killing of nearly 3000 Israeli soldiers, also brought about a new phenomenon of an active army involvement in the Israeli politics, thereby questioning the civilian–military relations in the democratic polity. Asher Arian characterized the war as a “veritable earthquake” for the political system, which showed loss of public confidence in the country’s leadership (Arian 1980: 12).
 
6
It refers to removal of poverty. The successive parties resorted to different plebiscitary slogans in an attempt to make emotional chord with the masses. Issues like ‘Indira Hatao during 1977 elections, ‘Government that Works’ during 1985 elections, ‘India Shining’ during 2004 elections and ‘Congress Ka Haath, Aam Admi Ke Saath’ (Congress’s hand [electoral symbol] with the common man) during 2009 elections gained ascendancy after that.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Mapaivot vs Congress System
verfasst von
Sunil K. Choudhary
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Verlag
Springer Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5175-3_5