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The Indian National Congress: The Distribution of Power between Party and Government

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Stanley A. Kochanek
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In a democratic country with a single dominant party the distribution of power within the party is of critical importance to the maintenance of democratic processes and political responsibility. The implications of such a system are particularly acute in the new nations of Asia and Africa where the dominant party has grown out of a nationalist movement and where problems of national unity have resulted frequendy in a tendency to view the party and the state as synonymous. In such cases, opposition to the policy objectives of the party, when it is in power, is often looked upon as criticism of the state itself. As a result legitimate partisan criticism may be regarded as anti-nationalist or subversive.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 1966 , pp. 681 - 697
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966

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