On the SP-BSP alliance.
indianexpress.com
SP-BSP partnership in UP makes the contest open and competitive in India’s politically most important stateRaphael Susewind delivers a talk at TCPD on urban segregation of Muslims in India. Great example of how data and qualitative work can go hand in hand.
TCPD is looking forward to host a score of great political scientists for the third LIA-SPINPER conference on Dec. 21., in partnership with the Centre on the Politics of Development, UC Berkeley.
Sonipat, December 2018 – LIASPINPER
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– Jusmeet Singh Sihra (Sciences Po and Hebrew University, Jerusalem):Who Represents the Scheduled Castes in Assemblies? The Paradox of Reservations and Castes in RajasthanTCPD hosted its first conference on Empirical and Computational Methods to Study Indian Politics. Teams and colleagues from Michigan, PRIO, Notre Dame and others discussed questions and methods over two days, and held a computational workshop for social sciences on the third.
Three concrete outcomes emerged from this meeting:
1. TCPD will work to set up sharable standards in data collection and political data handling.
2. TCPD will invite collaborations to build high standards datasets on various aspects of India’s democracy (elections, public goods delivery, contentious politics)
3. This will start with a formal partnership with PRIO to build an event-based dataset on contentious politics in India.
Looking forward to much good work and calling on friends, scholars and students to help us in these endeavours.
Our piece on the persistence of dominant castes influence has in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh politics.
Assembly elections results in MP, Rajasthan show upper castes still dominate heartland
hindustantimes.com
Data analysis of assembly elections results shows that Rajputs increased dominance in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, Brahmins lost share; OBCs take up large chunk of BJP, Cong MLAs.
