Potential determinants of voting behaviour of the electors of Assam
Department of Political Science, Gargaon College, Assam, India.
Review Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 21(01), 2213–2219
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2024.21.1.0295
Publication history:
Received on 14 December 2023; revised on 22 January 2024; accepted on 25 January 2024
Abstract:
The political parties are the backbone of the democratic form of government. The political parties are constituted to capture the power of the state and rule thereof. The composition, nature, and ideology or principle of every party is different but the primary objective is to capture the power of the state is the same. So, in order to capture the power, the political parties initiated different strategies and considered various determinants. The determinants might differ from party to party and place to place. Assam as a state of India is run by a state government following the parliamentary form of government and the party that gets the majority in the Legislative Assembly of Assam is allowed to form the government. Hence, there are many contesting political parties in Assam, and out of that some are national and others are state and regional level parties. During the election, the national, state and regional political parties of Assam considered certain factors to win the confidence of the people. These factors determine the fate of the elections. Thus, this paper is intended to focus on the determining factors in Assam, and by analyzing the factors past experiences of the political parties are analyzed to justify the arguments.
Keywords:
Democracy; Government; Political Parties; Determinants; Parliamentary system
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