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Pakistan Social Sciences Review (PSSR) April-June, 2022 Volume 6, Issue 2 security (Voting Behavior in the 2008 Elections). Consequently, most of the candidates also seek part tickets keeping in view the general electoral trend towards a particular party or group. Therefore, this survey also postulates the performance of the previous government is one of the determining factors in shaping up the opinion of the voters. Sixty-nine percent of the people agreed that the performance card of the previous government and the association of candidate with that government is substantial whereas approximately 26% of the respondents negated this proposition. Table 6 Do you think that people support a candidate on the basis of the performance of previous government? Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent Valid Agree Disagree 60 69.0 69.0 72.4 23 26.4 26.4 98.9 Don't Know 1 1.1 1.1 100.0 Total 87 100.0 100.0 External Factors- Establishment and Bureaucratic Maneuvering Apolitical and impersonal bureaucracy and the establishment are central to the functioning of the state. The bureaucratic hierarchy at the central and provincial has been deeply embedded in the governance structure of Punjab since the colonial era (Shahzad, 2017, pp. 17-20).Bureaucracy includes the civil servants and establishment in Pakistan is a notion that is mostly used for armed forcesand other influential elites in Pakistan. Even after the independence of Pakistan, a proportionate ratio of civil servants and military personnel from Punjab were recruited from Punjab mainly due to the population and education ratio of the province. Due to long years of dictatorship, poor governance of democratic regimes, lack of decentralization mechanisms and weak political leadership, the role of establishment and bureaucracyhave been significantly increased in Pakistan politics.On the other hand, the role of the military in the politics of Pakistan has been twofold. Traditionally military established a direct role in politics by overthrowing the democratic regimes. Besides this, they had been an influential factor and source of a power center in policy-making during democratic regimes as well.Due to their strong position and role in governance, bureaucracy and pockets within the establishment have been politicized. In this context, 75.9 percent of the respondents agreed that bureaucracy and establishment has a profound role in Punjab politics. Managing political regimes, electable and election day engineering are mostly maneuvered by them. This perception of respondents also gives an insight that to what extent people believe in the role of external factors that can influence the whole electoral process. Table 7 Do you think that during elections bureaucratic and establishment maneuvering is a significant factor in Punjab politics? Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent Valid Agree Disagree 66 75.9 75.9 77.0 11 12.6 12.6 89.7 153

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