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Andrew Wyatt

@AW1010

Political parties, populism, nationalism, India, Tamil Nadu. Teaches South Asia too! @ University of Bristol. Own views.

 Bristol
Joined November 2009
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Happy to have co-authored this chapter on #LS2019 elections in TN with @manichandran
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📩Please read our article: 'Which god’s own country? A spatial history of Hindu-Christian tensions in modern Kerala' by @harikrishnan_91 #kerala #India #politics Link ➡️bit.ly/4hMkoTw
Which god’s own country? A spatial history of Hindu-Christian tensions in modern Kerala

Which god’s own country? A spatial history of Hindu-Christian tensions in modern Kerala

Kerala has long resisted the ambitions of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India; a state where despite a large grassroots presence of the Sangh Parivar, the BJP has enjoyed little electoral success. ...

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Please read our special issue article (63:1) ~Hindutva and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India by @SudhirSelvaraj and @K_Bo_Nielsen. #India #violence #religion Link ➡️bit.ly/3SLFIhP
Hindutva and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India

Hindutva and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India

In this special issue introduction, we analyse the trajectory and forms of anti-Christian violence in India and its role in the wider Hindu nationalist project today. Inspired by Galtung’s work on ...

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📩Please read our book review by Thomas O’Brien @UniOfYork of the book ~Street-level bureaucracy in weak state institutions edited by @RikPeeters2, @gabilotta and Fernando Nieto-Morales published by @policypress #state #institution #bureaucracy Link➡️bit.ly/4oOggnK
Street-level bureaucracy in weak state institutions

Street-level bureaucracy in weak state institutions

Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Vol. 62, No. 4, 2024)

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📩Please read our book review by Peter Clegg of the book~ Flawed democracy and development: A Jamaica case study, edited by Stacey-Ann Wilson, published by Lexington Books. #democarcy #Jamaica #development Link➡️bit.ly/4tZySTt
Flawed democracy and development: A Jamaica case study

Flawed democracy and development: A Jamaica case study

Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Vol. 62, No. 4, 2024)

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📩Please read our book review by @sameen_mohsin of the book ~Good governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century by @whowhywherewhen published by @CambridgeUP #Nigeria #Governance #accountability Link➡️bit.ly/4c45bJb
Good governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century

Good governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century

Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Vol. 62, No. 4, 2024)

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Please read our article📩: How do political families reproduce power: evidence from Maharashtra, India by @ajinkyaMu21 and @rahul_tverma #power #elections #politics #india Link➡️bit.ly/3PHbg79
How do political families reproduce power: evidence from Maharashtra, India

How do political families reproduce power: evidence from Maharashtra, India

How do political families maintain their hold in local politics? While the impact of dynastic politics on economic development has received scholarly attention, the underlying mechanisms that susta...

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Please read our article📩: Pakistan’s contemporary political crisis: historical perspectives by Ian Talbot @unisouthampton #pakistan #political #crisis #southasia Link➡️bit.ly/4lT2dvS
Pakistan’s contemporary political crisis: historical perspectives

Pakistan’s contemporary political crisis: historical perspectives

This article brings a historical perspective to contemporary Pakistan’s mounting political, constitutional and economic crisis. Lying behind this scenario there is a complex collision between the s...

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Please read our article📩: Hustlers and dynasties: exploring the role of anti-China populism in Kenya’s 2022 elections by Steve Hess @Transy and Richard Aidoo @CCUChanticleers #kenya #china #populism Link➡️bit.ly/4chNYOv
Hustlers and dynasties: exploring the role of anti-China populism in Kenya’s 2022 elections

Hustlers and dynasties: exploring the role of anti-China populism in Kenya’s 2022 elections

The article examines William Ruto's use of a populist ‘hustlers versus dynasties’ campaign strategy and the degree to which this strategy incorporated anti-China rhetoric in his successful bid to w...

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Please read our article📩: Powerlessness at the inhuman scale? Examining the relationship between municipality size and political efficacy in two Australian states by @joshuamcdonnell #Australia #state #Power #council Link➡️bit.ly/45Vfw7Z
Powerlessness at the inhuman scale? Examining the relationship between municipality size and...

Powerlessness at the inhuman scale? Examining the relationship between municipality size and...

A nation’s political culture, tradition goes, is built at the local level. Local government’s proximity, simplicity, and human scale enable a wider range of people to participate and to learn the c...

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Please read our article📩: Inside or outside the federation of Pakistan: the Gilgit-Baltistan conundrum by Jean-Luc Racine, Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies (CESAH-EHESS). #Pakistan #Gilgit #Baltistan Link➡️bit.ly/4acFlnc
Inside or outside the federation of Pakistan: the Gilgit-Baltistan conundrum

Inside or outside the federation of Pakistan: the Gilgit-Baltistan conundrum

For more than seven decades, since the partition of India and the first conflict over Kashmir in 1947–1948, the former Northern Territories, renamed Gilgit-Baltistan in 2009, have remained in a con...

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Please read our article📩: The politics of policing in Pakistan: decentralisation of power in a federalised political landscape by @Y2Kureshi and @ZohaWaseem #Pakistan #Federalism #decentralisation Link ➡️bit.ly/4qd3GxX
The politics of policing in Pakistan: decentralisation of power in a federalised political landscape

The politics of policing in Pakistan: decentralisation of power in a federalised political landscape

How do political parties establish partisan control over police forces in federalised hybrid regimes with powerful militaries? Focusing on Pakistan, this paper examines how, in the context of limit...

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Please read our article📩: The federal project in Pakistan: beyond fixing the design by @Waseem13134666 #Pakistan #federal #PolicyInPractice #SouthAsia Link: bit.ly/4ojZnA4
The federal project in Pakistan: beyond fixing the design

The federal project in Pakistan: beyond fixing the design

Federalism remains a contested matter in Pakistan. This article analyses the issues of representation, territoriality, ethnicity and asymmetry of the federating units in the federal theory and prac...

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New update:📩Please read our book review by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò @Cornell of the book ~ African political thought: an intellectual history of the quest for freedom by @DrStephenChan published by @HurstPublishers #Africa #political #thought Link ➡️bit.ly/44Dm7UE
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@barua_satyaki reviews The Backstage of Democracy @CambridgeUP in @FCCPolitics underscoring the comparative potential that @AmoghDS offers.
Satyaki Barua (@barua_satyaki) profile pictureSatyaki Barua@barua_satyaki25 Nov 2025
Glad to share my review of @AmoghDS's pathbreaking, ambitious and empirically rich study on the transformation of electoral campaigns in India, The Backstage of Democracy (2024, @CambridgeUP) for @FCCPolitics. @uohpolsci tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
The backstage of democracy: India’s election campaigns and the people who manage them

The backstage of democracy: India’s election campaigns and the people who manage them

Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Vol. 63, No. 4, 2025)

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Please read our article📩: Mapping the post-18th Amendment federalism in Pakistan: hegemony, centralization or cooperation? by @jaffrelotc @Waseem13134666 and @faiz_asma #federalism #Pakistan #hegemony #politics Link➡️bit.ly/3VA76gN
Mapping the post-18th Amendment federalism in Pakistan: hegemony, centralization or cooperation?

Mapping the post-18th Amendment federalism in Pakistan: hegemony, centralization or cooperation?

The 1973 Constitution accelerated the development of federalism in Pakistan. Federalizing institutions such as the Senate and the Council of Common Interests (CCI) were introduced. The 18th Amendme...

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📢📢PUBLICATION ALERT In this paper for @FCCPolitics, I examine the populist performance of international summitry in the context of 🇮🇳’s G20 presidency in 2023. Using the theoretical frameworks of populism as style (@bjmoffitt) & populism as ...(1/3) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Summitry as populist performance: a case study of Narendra Modi and the 2023 G20 summit

Summitry as populist performance: a case study of Narendra Modi and the 2023 G20 summit

The intersection of populism and foreign policy has garnered increasing scholarly attention. However, its manifestation through international summits remains underexplored. The 2023 G20 summit held...

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New update:📩Please read our book review by Ryan Shaffer of the book ~ Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: the Cold War and decolonization, 1960–1984 by Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia published by @CambridgeUP #race #Diplomacy #zim #coldwar #decolonial Link➡️ bit.ly/4lfOKgr
Race and diplomacy in Zimbabwe: the Cold War and decolonization, 1960–1984

Race and diplomacy in Zimbabwe: the Cold War and decolonization, 1960–1984

Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Vol. 62, No. 2, 2024)

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New update :📩Please read our book review by @HarshaliNagral1 of the book ~House of the People: parliament and the making of Indian democracy by @ronojoy_sen published by @CambridgeUP #people #India #Democracy Link➡️bit.ly/4lfd5TE
House of the People: parliament and the making of Indian democracy

House of the People: parliament and the making of Indian democracy

Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Vol. 62, No. 2, 2024)

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New update :📩Please read our book review by James Manor of the book ~Governance by stealth: the Ministry of Home Affairs and the making of the Indian state by Subrata K. Mitra published by @OUPAcademic Link ➡️bit.ly/4mLq3d1
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A fascinating paper with original insights into the political use of space!
Hari (@harikrishnan_91) profile pictureHari@harikrishnan_9121 May 2025
New (Open Access) work! Wrote about how a "sacred geography" is shaped through sites, routes and neighbourhoods, and how one can read the recent outreach by Kerala BJP leaders to the Christian community. Thanks @SudhirSelvaraj @K_Bo_Nielsen @AW1010 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Which god’s own country? A spatial history of Hindu-Christian tensions in modern Kerala

Which god’s own country? A spatial history of Hindu-Christian tensions in modern Kerala

Kerala has long resisted the ambitions of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India; a state where despite a large grassroots presence of the Sangh Parivar, the BJP has enjoyed little electoral success. ...

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