Majoritarian State
Majoritarian State
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多数国家
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2019
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Paul Pholeros
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作者：
T. Lea;Paul Pholeros
多数主义国家追溯了印度教民族主义在当代印度的崛起。在总理纳伦德拉·莫迪的领导下，印度人民党政府自2014年以来建立了民族宗教和民粹主义的统治风格。它的议程也超越了政府的正式部门，因为新的制度将传统的社会等级制度描绘为印度文化的固有特征，同时宽恕社区和种姓以及基于性别的暴力。贡献者探讨了印度教意识形态如何渗透到国家机器和正式机构，以及印度教活动家如何通过民团，文化警察和暴力对民间社会施加控制。被描绘为印度国家“敌人”的团体和地区是促进城市中产阶级和商业精英利益的新秩序的输家。随着这种多数主义意识形态充斥媒体和公共话语，它也影响到司法机构、大学和文化机构，越来越多地被印度教民族主义者所控制。由于新闻界在法庭上受到钳制或恐吓，不同意见和分歧被压制，辩论越来越被边缘化。在国际上，印度人民党政府强调硬实力和快速扩张的安全国家。这本论文集提供了丰富的实证分析和文献，以调查世界上最大的民主国家所采取的不自由转向的原因和后果。
Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its agenda is also pursued beyond the formal branches of government, as the new dispensation portrays conventional social hierarchies as intrinsic to Indian culture while condoning communal and caste- and gender-based violence. The contributors explore how Hindutva ideology has permeated the state apparatus and formal institutions, and how Hindutva activists exert control over civil society via vigilante groups, cultural policing and violence. Groups and regions portrayed as ‘enemies’ of the Indian state are the losers in a new order promoting the interests of the urban middle class and business elites. As this majoritarian ideology pervades the media and public discourse, it also affects the judiciary, universities and cultural institutions, increasingly captured by Hindu nationalists. Dissent and difference are silenced and debate increasingly side-lined as the press is muzzled or intimidated in the courts. Internationally, the BJP government has emphasized hard power and a fast-expanding security state. This collection of essays offers rich empirical analysis and documentation to investigate the causes and consequences of the illiberal turn taken by the world’s largest democracy.