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PAKISTANS ELECTORAL SOCIOLOGY WHY DO VOTERS VOTE

12 Pages : 172 - 187

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2017(II-I).12      10.31703/gssr.2017(II-I).12      Published : Jun 2017

Pakistan's Electoral Sociology: Why do Voters' Vote?

    The published literature reviewed indicates that the subject of current research has remained away from scholarly focus. The existing academic literature shows that studies on electoral politics largely focused on social and political determinants of voting behavior. The current study explains that sociology-historical material trajectory of the voting process. This has been continuously shaping aset of dispositions of people through the continued interplay of base structure and superstructure, which have a deep impact on voter choice formation. These dispositions formulate a neo liberal habit us and shape electoral choices of voters controlled by super structural forces who control the process of elections. The present study aimed at investigating the dynamics of voters’ choices. Why do voters vote? This is a key research question that has been explored in this paper.This research focuses on issues in which even electoral systems are operating,and these systems are manufacturing voting choices. The relationship of base structure and superstructures are the major framework that determines the behavior of voters in the larger electoral process. This is qualitative and theoretical study, and evidence have been taken from Hazara and Pothohar regions of Pakistan.

    Election, Politics, Sociology, Vote, Pakistan
    (1) Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad
    Assistant Professor, Centre for Policy Studies, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel. 2017. "Pakistan's Electoral Sociology: Why do Voters' Vote?." Global Social Sciences Review, II (I): 172 - 187 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2017(II-I).12
    HARVARD : AHMAD, M. S. 2017. Pakistan's Electoral Sociology: Why do Voters' Vote?. Global Social Sciences Review, II, 172 - 187.
    MHRA : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel. 2017. "Pakistan's Electoral Sociology: Why do Voters' Vote?." Global Social Sciences Review, II: 172 - 187
    MLA : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel. "Pakistan's Electoral Sociology: Why do Voters' Vote?." Global Social Sciences Review, II.I (2017): 172 - 187 Print.
    OXFORD : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel (2017), "Pakistan's Electoral Sociology: Why do Voters' Vote?", Global Social Sciences Review, II (I), 172 - 187