Ethnic Identity Politics in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: An Empirical Analysis Of 2008 General Elections

This paper is going to perceive that how much theory of ethnicity in terms of Pakhtun is applicable in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in relation to 2008 general polls. The study argues that the Pakhtun ethnicity is applicable to some extent in KP. Data have been collected from a sample of 800 in NA-2 whic...

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Published in:Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan 2020-06, Vol.57 (1), p.89
Main Authors: Farmanullah, Fakhr-ul-Islam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Councils
Cultural identity
Elections
Ethnic identity
Ethnicity
Identity politics
Minority & ethnic groups
Political parties
Politics
Polls & surveys
Questionnaires
Respondents
Socioeconomic factors
Statistical inference
Statistics
Variables
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Summary:This paper is going to perceive that how much theory of ethnicity in terms of Pakhtun is applicable in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in relation to 2008 general polls. The study argues that the Pakhtun ethnicity is applicable to some extent in KP. Data have been collected from a sample of 800 in NA-2 which reveals that majority of the respondents (53.76%) build their electoral preferences on ethnic identity. The inferential statistics in the form of chi-square and p-value provides values which provides that there is significant association between dependent and independent variables.
ISSN:0034-5431