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   
 
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