http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(V-I).67
10.31703/gssr.2020(V-I).67
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Pakistan's Elections Debates: An Analysis of Electoral Knowledge Production
The political debates are the major indicators to open a dialogue and to set the tone of politics in society. The elections' debates in Pakistan are directly linked with the nature of the state and its ideological and elite composition. The post-colonial state structure and its reflection in electoral politics is a dominant determining factor which led to induce order through objectifying in existing electoral status quo. The dominant forces on the electoral scene have the power to interpret the existing knowledge production and debate for their own interest. Both objectivities and subjectivities in which electoral debates operate are in control of the post-colonial state structure. This paper is an attempt to explore the articulation of electoral debates in academic knowledge production. Further, how does existing academic debate explain the nature of electoral politics? Why?The purposively selected academic debates on elections revolved around functionalist and interpretivist paradigms influenced by the existing debate between subjectivity and objectivity. The descriptive method has been applied in exploring a research question under study.
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Elections, Knowledge Production, Pakistan, Political Debate, Post-Colonialism
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(1) Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad
Assistant Professor, Centre for Policy Studies, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, The University of Nottingham United Kingd
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APA : Ahmad, M. S. (2020). Pakistan's Elections Debates: An Analysis of Electoral Knowledge Production. Global Social Sciences Review, V(I), 672-679. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(V-I).67
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CHICAGO : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel. 2020. "Pakistan's Elections Debates: An Analysis of Electoral Knowledge Production." Global Social Sciences Review, V (I): 672-679 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2020(V-I).67
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HARVARD : AHMAD, M. S. 2020. Pakistan's Elections Debates: An Analysis of Electoral Knowledge Production. Global Social Sciences Review, V, 672-679.
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MHRA : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel. 2020. "Pakistan's Elections Debates: An Analysis of Electoral Knowledge Production." Global Social Sciences Review, V: 672-679
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OXFORD : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel (2020), "Pakistan's Elections Debates: An Analysis of Electoral Knowledge Production", Global Social Sciences Review, V (I), 672-679
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TURABIAN : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel. "Pakistan's Elections Debates: An Analysis of Electoral Knowledge Production." Global Social Sciences Review V, no. I (2020): 672-679. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(V-I).67