Electoral Process in Pakistan

Abstract

The study of elections and their relationship with the polity is a fascinating field of research and study. By forcusing on different aspects or the electoral process. One understands not merely how and why do the people vote and elect their representatives but also gets an opportunity to understand the politico-social and economic context within which voting decisions are made. How do the ethnic, lingusitic, religous and other primordial attachments shape the electoral process? Do the elections play an inclusionst role for the primordial identities and promote accommodation, defusing the sharp edges of these identities