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Electoral Analysis and Party Politics in India

INR 6000
Instructor: Dr. Neelanjan Sircar, Dr. Ambreen Agha, Dr Khushdeep Kaur and Dr. Shamindra Nath Roy
  Language: English
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About the course

India has undergone multiple transformations in its journey as an independent nation-state. The goal of this course is to trace the evolution of India’s political institutions and political economy; tracing the transition from the second and third-party systems, which correspond to the period in which the Congress Party started facing competition at the state level, to the rise of a dominant BJP and Narendra Modi from 2014 onward. It also covers major events, such as the Emergency and the consolidation of Hindutva as a political force in the wake of the demolition of the Babri Masjid.


This course will also analyse the rising costs of contesting elections, and its larger impacts on the political economy of India. A particular focus is on the incentives of various political actors and financiers in this system. Finally, the course covers caste and class-based voting, as well as the impact of rural-urban transformations on voting behavior.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

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Student intake
20-25 students
Small cohort to maximize personal attention

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Dates
 25-26th March and 1st-2nd April
Full-day weekend workshops


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Duration
4 day workshop with 8 sessions of 2 hours each

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Course Outline

Day 1: The 2nd and 3rd party systems

This day covers the change in politics in the so-called second and third party systems, which correspond to the period in which the Congress Party started facing competition at the state level and began a period of decline. It also covers major events, such as the Emergency and the consolidation of Hindutva as a political force in the wake of the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

Morning Session: Theory and Readings (Lecture: Amreen Agha)
Afternoon Session(s): Lab (Getting acquainted with electoral data, and calculating basic features like effective number of parties [provided by the Trivedi Centre for Political Data])

Day 2: The 4th party system

This day covers the rise of a dominant BJP and Narendra Modi from 2014 onward. It also focuses on an increasing disjuncture between state and national electoral politics in electoral outcomes.
Morning Session: Theory and Readings (Lecture: Neelanjan Sircar)
Afternoon Session(s): Lab (Working across national and state election data, calculating turnout data)

Day 3: Political Financing in India

This day covers the rising costs of contesting elections, and its larger impacts on the political economy of India. A particular focus is on the incentives of various political actors and financiers in this system.
Morning Session: Theory and Readings (Lecture: Neelanjan Sircar)
Afternoon Session(s): Lab (Working with candidate affidavit data [provided by the Association for Democratic Reforms])

Day 4: Socioeconomic Structure and the Vote

This day covers caste and class-based voting, as well as the impact of rural-urban transformations on voting behavior.
Morning Session: Theory and Readings (Lecture: Khushdeep Kaur and Shamindra Nath Roy)
Afternoon Session(s): Lab (Working with spatial and demographic data on urbanization and caste, and matching to electoral data)

YOUR MENTORS

Dr Neelanjan Sircar

Dr. Sircar is a Senior Fellow at CPR and Assistant Professor at Ashoka University and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include Indian political economy and comparative political behavior with an eye to Bayesian statistics, causal inference, social network analysis, and game theory. Mr Sircar’s recent work focused on state level elections in India through both data work and ethnographic methods. He is particularly interested in understanding theoretic principles that undergird the decision-making processes of voters in India, which can shed light on democratic practice in the developing world more generally.

Dr Khushdeep Kaur

Dr. Kaur recently completed her PhD in Geography and Urban Studies from Temple University. Her dissertation examines experiences of home-making and belonging among the Kashmiri Sikh community in the context of precarity and militarization in Kashmir Valley. Currently she is working on expanding her dissertation research to understand Sikh youth's political subjectivities across Kashmir and Punjab.

Dr Ambreen Agha

Dr Ambreen Agha is the Associate Professor & Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs (Undergraduate Programs), Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University. Before joining the University, she worked as a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi. At the Council, she was engaged in research on religion and conflict, particularly conflict in Afghanistan.



Dr Shamindra Nath Roy

Dr Shamindra Nath Roy is an Associate Fellow at CPR. He is a mixed-method researcher and his interest lies in examining inequalities through spatial lens. He has worked on rural-urban transformations, nature of governance in urban sprawls, internal migration dynamics in India, determinants of female workforce participation in India’s cities and socio-spatial inequalities in basic services at the sub-city level. He has a keen interest in deploying spatial concepts like proximity, contiguity or interaction in analyzing non-spatial data, and working across datasets from various sources in the urban context.Shamindra has an M.Phil and Ph.D in Regional Development with specialization in geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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