Political participation of Muslims in India's 2014 general election : a case study of Jamia Nagar, New Delhi electorates /
This research seeks to map out the degree of Muslims' political participation in India with reference to the 2014 general election. The study focuses on 16 political activities from voting to joining party, attending meeting conducted by political party, attending events dealing with political...
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| Language: | English |
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Kuala Lumpur :
Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia,
2017
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| Summary: | This research seeks to map out the degree of Muslims' political participation in India with reference to the 2014 general election. The study focuses on 16 political activities from voting to joining party, attending meeting conducted by political party, attending events dealing with political issues, campaigning, participating in demonstration, joining pressure group, communicating with leaders, financing the candidate, discussing politics in the media, signing petitions, collecting signatures, wearing badges, reading newspapers, watching television and surfing the Internet to get political information. The study has argued that there are three factors, namely socio-economic, party-identification and rational choice which affect Muslims' political behaviour. The study focuses on Jamia Nagar, New Delhi's registered electorates for the 2014 general election. Jamia Nagar is a Muslim dominated area in India's capital Delhi, which is governed by both leading parties of India, BJP and Congress. Currently, the representative of this area for legislative assembly is Amanatullah Khan, an AAP party candidate while representative for parliament is Maheish Girri, a BJP party candidate. This study is based on quantitative data where questionnaire was developed as an instrument to collect data and was distributed to 267 people of Jamia Nagar based on snowball random sampling. The ratio of sample is 0.07% assuming Muslim population constitutes 20% (1,829,578). The return rate was higher than the proposed 250 respondents. The study consists of 54.7% male and 45.3% female respondents. It is noted that 71.5% respondents had voted in the 2014 general election, higher than the average turnout in Delhi, where 49.4% respondents preferred Aam Aadmi Party as their best political party. Based on Milbrath's (1965) categorization of political participation, the majority of respondents fall into spectator category: 33.0% males and 34.8% females. The study concludes that Muslims are more active in casting votes, attending rallies and demonstrations compared to other platforms of political participation and socio-economic factors have very minimal influence on the voting behavior of Muslims. Comparing the three factors, rational choice has more impact on Muslims' political behavior compared to the two other factors of party identification and socio-economic. The study found overall Muslims are not supportive of Muslim political parties and Muslims do not think that in the 2014 general election, Congress lost due to heavy corruption and lack of political strategy; rather they think that BJP had won due to more media support compared to Congress |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 129 leaves : illustrations ; 30cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-113). |