Tania Sohail2018-08-072018-08-072017https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/3146Supervised By: DR. GULL-I-HINA AMIRThe current study focuses on the nature of dynastic political elites and their election campaigns in Pakistanparticularly from 1992 to 2013. The study unfolds the role of the dynastic elites in Pakistanwhile highlighting the factors that affected voting trends in Pakistan. The theories concerning the voting behaviour such as a School of Columbia and the School of Michigan inform the theoretical framework. The School of Columbia is linked to sociological factors such as race, class, religion, etc. while the School of Michigan gives more importance to psychosocial factors such as party identification, party age, specific group attachment and so forth. Both the sociological and psychosocial factors have been found significant in affecting voting trends in Pakistan.The study employs qualitative method to collect primary data. They study corroborates the manifestos of the major political dynastic elites with data collected through semi-structured interviews. The target group has been the people who voted in the general elections of Pakistanfor the PakistanPeoples' Party (PPP) and PakistanMuslim League Noon (PMLN) in major elections. In addition, the study takes into account the opinions of university students in order to know their perceptive on the dynastic political elites and their new leadersenDynastic political elitessociological and psychosocial factorsM.PhilThesis