Elections of Pakistan and Response of Social Scientists: A Historiographical Survey of Theoretical Perceptions

The study of politics and political behavior of Pakistan has been generalized by the foreign and indigenous scholars with their particular perspective without giving empirical observation except a few. Politics is the manifestation of political activity that had been the outcome of political will and it will peep into the social setup to observe that how the voters are being groomed and inducted into political values. The question of judging the observation of different scholars will be evaluated in the paradigm of new modern developments where objective reality exists and subject matter varies. Most of the scholars have given their sweeping explanations that voters of Pakistan are not mature enough in their voting decisions. In this article it will be analyzed that how they have conclude their observations and what are the parameters in which they have locusstand to make the statements. Sharief-ul-Mujahid to Andrew Wilder all has given their observation about the electoral behavior of Pakistan’s voters that is more descriptive and explanatory. They expressed the general features of electoral discourse without behavioral analysis. In this article it has been analyzed that what kind of research methods and theoretical premise have been hired by the social science researcher in Pakistan to judge the electoral behavior of voters.