Review of Adam M. Auerbach and Tariq Thachil 2023: Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness. Princeton: Princeton University Press

In bringing together interdisciplinary literature from political science, anthropology, geography and urban studies, this well-researched book highlights the workings of micro-level urban politics in the global South. It provides an in-depth analysis of the formation of party machines in India, defined by the authors as ‘pyramidal hierarchies of party workers that mobilize low-income voters […]