Further reading

BOOKS

Alam, Javeed. Who wants democracy? Delhi: Orient Longman, 2004.

Alam, Sanjeer and K.C. Sivaramakrishnan (eds.). Fixing electoral boundaries in India: laws, processes, outcomes and implications for political representation. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Banerjee, Mukulika. Why India votes? Delhi: Routledge, 2014.

Chandra, Kanchan. Why ethnic parties succeed: patronage and ethnic headcounts in India. New York: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, 2007.

Chhibber, Pradeep K. Religious practice and democracy in India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Kumar, Sanjay (ed.). A shift towards regionalisation of Indian politics’, in Sudha Pai (ed.). Handbook of politics in Indian states: regions, parties and economic reforms. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Kumar, Sanjay (ed.). Indian youth and electoral politics: an emerging engagement. Delhi: Sage Publications, 2013.

Kumar, Sanjay and Praveen Rai. Measuring voting behaviour in India. Delhi: Sage Publications, 2013.

Mitra, Subrata K. and V.B. Singh. Democracy and social change in India. Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999.

Mitra, Subrata K. and V.B. Singh. When rebels become stakeholders: democracy, agency and social change in India. Delhi: Sage Publications, 2009.

Palshikar, Suhas, K.C. Suri and Yogendra Yadav. Electoral politics in post-Congress polity. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Palshikar, Suhas, Sanjay Kumar and Sanjay Lodha. Electoral politics in India: resurgence of Bharatiya Janata Party. Delhi: Routledge (forthcoming).

Palshikar, Suhas. Election studies, in Achin Vanaik (ed.). ICSSR research surveys and explorations – political science. Volume II: Indian democracy. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Shastri, Sandeep, K.C. Suri and Yogendra Yadav. Electoral politics in Indian states: lok sabha elections 2004 and beyond. Delhi: OUP, 2009.

Stepan, Alfred, Juan Linz and Yogendra Yadav. Crafting state-nations: India and other multinational democracies. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Tariq Thachil. Elite parties, poor voters: how social services win votes in India? New York: Cambridge University Press. 2014.

Tillin, Louise, Rajeshwari Deshpande and K.K. Kailash (eds.). Politics of welfare: comparisons across Indian states. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Vora, Rajendra and Suhas Palshikar (ed.). Indian democracy: meanings and practices. Delhi: Sage Publications, 2005.

Ziegfeld, Adam. Why regional parties? Clientelism, elites and the Indian party system. Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

 

ARTICLES

Bakshi, Pooja. Unpacking public preferences for increasing defence expenditure in India. ‘Studies in Indian Politics’ 3(2), 2015.

Chhibber, Pradeep and Susan L. Ostermann. The BJP’s fragile mandate: Modi and vote mobilizers in the 2014 lok sabha elections. ‘Studies in Indian Politics’ 2(2), 2014.

Choi, Jungung. Strategic voting in India: its extent and determinants in the 2004 general election. ‘Asian Survey’ 49(4), July-August 2009.

‘Contemporary South Asia’ 23(2), May 2015. (Special issue on the 2014 Lok Sabha elections)

Farooqui, Adnan and E. Sridharan. Can umbrella parties survive? The decline of the Indian National Congress. ‘Commonwealth and Comparative Politics’ (forthcoming, 2016).

Heath, Oliver, Gilles Verniers and Sanjay Kumar. Do Muslim voters prefer Muslim candidates? Co-religiosity and voting behaviour in India. ‘Electoral Studies’, January 2015.

Heath, Oliver. Anatomy of BJP’s rise to power: social, regional and political expansion in the 1990s. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 34(34-35), 21 August 1999.

Jensenius, Francesca R. Political quotas in India: perceptions of constituent political representation. ‘Asian Survey’ 52(2), March-April 2012.

Kailash, K.K. The more things change, the more they stay the same in India: the bahujan and the paradox of the ‘democratic upsurge’. ‘Asian Survey’ 52(2), March-April 2012.

Karandikar, Rajeeva, Clive Payne and Yogendra Yadav. Predicting the 1998 parliamentary election. ‘Electoral Studies’ 21(2), March 2002.

Karandikar, Rajeeva. Power and limitations of opinion polls: my experiences. Chennai: The Hindu Centre for Public Policy, April 2014. Accessible at: http://www.thehinducentre.com/verdict/commentary/article5739722.ece

Kumar, Sanjay, Shreyas Sardesai and Pranav Gupta. The weakening of electoral anti incumbency. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 48(13), 30 March 2013.

Lokniti Team. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 39(51), 18 December 2004.

Lokniti Team. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 49(39), 27 September 2014.

Lokniti Team. ‘Panjab University Research Journal’ (Social Sciences) 22(2), 2014.

Lokniti Team. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 44(39), 26 September 2009.

Mori, Yuko and Takashi Kurosaki. Does political reservation affect voting behaviour? ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 51(20), 14 May 2016.

Nooruddin, Irfan. Making surveys work better: experiments in public opinion research. ‘Studies in Indian Politics’ 2(1), 2014.

Palshikar, Suhas. Congress in the times of the post-Congress era. Economic and Political Weekly’ 50(19), 9 May 2015.

Pushpendra. Dalit assertion through electoral politics. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 34(36), 4 September 1999.

Shroff, Zubin Cyrus, Sanjay Kumar and Michael R. Reich. Health insurance as a tool of electoral tactical redistribution in Tamil Nadu, India. ‘Asian Survey 55(5), September-October 2015.

Singh, Shikhar. Candidate caste effects in Uttar Pradesh elections. ‘Studies in Indian Politics’ 3(2), 2015.

‘Studies in Indian politics’ 3(1), Understanding India’s 2014 elections. June 2015. (Special issue on the 2014 Lok Sabha elections)

Vaid, Divya. Perspectives on methods in political science. ‘Studies in Indian Politics’ 1(1), 2013.

Verma, Rahul, Jyoti Mishra, Shreyas Sardesai and Sanjay Kumar. Return of the ‘national’ in Indian elections: when do national-level factors play a role in influencing the outcomes of state assembly elections? ‘Studies in Indian Politics’ 2(1), 2014.

Verma, Rahul. What determines electoral outcomes in India? caste, class or voters’ satisfaction with government performance? ‘Asian Survey’ 52(2), March-April 2012.

Yadav, Yogendra and Suhas Palshikar. Principal state level contests and derivate national choices: electoral trends in 2004-09. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 44(6), 7 February 2009.

Yadav, Yogendra. Electoral politics in the time of changes: India’s third electoral system, 1989-99. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 34(34 & 35), 21 August1999.

Yadav, Yogendra. The new Congress voter. ‘Seminar’ 526, June 2003.

Yadav, Yogendra. Whither survey research: reflections on the state of survey research on politics in most of the world. Malcolm Adiseshiah Memorial Lecture, 2008. Accessible at: http://www.lokniti. org/Malcolm_ adiseshiah_memorial_lecture_ yy.pdf