Product Description: A major study of India's developing party system. The author, who spent 18 months in India, employs a series of party case studies to assess India's chances at building a stable political framework.Originally published in 1957.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press...read more

Myron Weiner's study of the relationship between internal migration and ethnic conflict in India is exceptional for two reasons: it focuses on intercultural and interstate migration throughout the nation, rather than on merely local or provincial phenomena, and it examines both the social and the political consequences of India's interethnic migrations. Professor Weiner examines selected regions of India in which migrants dominate the modern sector of the economy. He describes the forces that lead individual Indian citizens to move from one linguistic-cultural region to another in search of better opportunities, and he attempts to explain their emergence at the top of the occupational hierarchy. In addition, the author provides an account of the ways in which the indigenous ethnic groups ("sons of the soil") attempt to use political power to overcome their fears of economic defeat and cultural subordination by the more enterprising, more highly skilled, better educated migrants. In addressing the fundamental clash between the migrants' claims to equal access to their country and the claims of the local groups to equal treatment and protection by the state, Professor Weiner considers some of the ways in which government policy makers might achieve greater equality among ethnic groups without simultaneously restricting the spatial and social mobility of some of its own people. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Product Description: Japan and the United States are under global and domestic pressures to simultaneously expand and to restrict immigration. In both countries migration, refugee and citizenship policies have become highly contentious political issues...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on the newly independent Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union in Central Asia, especially Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan. It examines the recent economic and political developments in these states with reference to the lingering legacy of Tsarist Russian and Soviet rule, the resurgence of an Islamic political identity, the persistence of ethnic allegiances and rivalries, and the nascent democratic aspirations of their peoples...read more

Product Description: A study of international migration and security.

Product Description: Ten essays from a June 1991 conference in Dedham, Massachusetts explore the political cultures that shape both the agenda and the content of scholarship on foreign areas, and how such political cultures have been the subject of both study and public policy...read more

Product Description: AN INSIGHT INTO THE NATION'S POLITICAL SYSTEM; ALSO GIVES A COMPARATIVE PICTURE OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

Product Description: How can we account for the apparent contradiction between India's high level of political violence and its success in sustaining a democratic political system? How has India coped during the turbulent post-Nehru period with that classical problem of post-colonial regimes--namely, how to carry through the task of socio-economic transformation and nation-building while sustaining an open and competitive framework? Myron Weiner, author of many benchmark works on the Indian polity, offers a broad overview of the central issues in Indian politics...read more

Product Description: Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983. Series: AEI's At the poll studies; Studies in political and social processes; AEI studies, 341. 198 p., [1] leaf of plates: ill.; 23 cm. [Elections -- India. / India -- Politics and government -- 1947- ]