eprintid: 10092740 rev_number: 13 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/09/27/40 datestamp: 2020-03-02 15:53:40 lastmod: 2021-07-08 06:10:08 status_changed: 2020-03-02 15:53:40 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Michelutti, L title: Electoral manipulation and impunity: ethnographic notes from Uttar Pradesh ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F22 keywords: Impunity, electoral manipulation, authority, electoral complaints, criminality note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: This article explores how electoral manipulation intersects with issues of impunity in a constituency in Western Uttar Pradesh, North India. By casting electoral manipulation as a tool to obtain, maintain and enhance impunity this article argues that there is often more at stake in manipulating elections than simply winning. More specifically it shows how an holistic ethnography of ‘electoral seasons’ sheds light on the kinds of authority and legitimacy produced by the visible non-punishment of electoral manipulations and in so doing offers new insights into ongoing debates in the anthropology of power, leadership and the law. date: 2020-01-07 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2020.1700017 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1742903 doi: 10.1080/14662043.2020.1700017 lyricists_name: Michelutti, Lucia lyricists_id: LMICH10 actors_name: Dewerpe, Marie actors_id: MDDEW97 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Commonwealth and Comparative Politics volume: 58 number: 1 pagerange: 21-42 citation: Michelutti, L; (2020) Electoral manipulation and impunity: ethnographic notes from Uttar Pradesh. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics , 58 (1) pp. 21-42. 10.1080/14662043.2020.1700017 <https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2020.1700017>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10092740/1/Michelutti_01-%20Electoral%20manipulation%20and%20impunity-%20accepted%20copy.pdf