1st Edition

Politics and Society between Elections Public Opinion in India’s States

Edited By Siddharth Swaminathan, Suhas Palshikar Copyright 2021
218 Pages 168 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

218 Pages 168 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

218 Pages 168 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

Elections are episodic; governance is routine. This book studies patterns in public opinion on politics and society between elections in India. By using the survey data covering 24 Indian states including the National Capital Region of Delhi (NCR), it will serve as State barometers of public opinion. The surveys seek to understand how politics and governance processes are nested in the social... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Social Universe 3. Political Universe 4. Political Institutions and Governance 5. Conclusion. Appendix 

Biography

Siddharth Swaminathan is Professor at Azim Premji University (Bengaluru, India). He received his Ph.D. in political science from the Claremont Graduate University, USA. He has published in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Social Science and Medicine, International Interactions, and Economic and Political Weekly among other journals, and in edited volumes. His research interests focus on political demography, public opinion, citizenship, and political development in India.

Suhas Palshikar, based at Pune, has been a professor of political science. He is co-director of programme on comparative democracy, Lokniti, located at CSDS, Delhi, India and chief editor of the journal, Studies in Indian Politics. He has co- edited Party Competition in Indian States: Electoral Politics in Post-Congress Polity, 2014, (with K.C. Suri and Yogendra Yadav) and Electoral Politics in India: Resurgence of Bharatiya Janata Party, 2017, Routledge (with Sanjay Kumar and Sanjay Lodha). His recent publications include, Indian Democracy (2017).