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December 2017, Volume 5, Issue 2
- 193-204 The Historical Legacy of Party System Stability in Kerala
by Balu Sunilraj & Oliver Heath - 205-217 The Roots and Varieties of Political Conservatism in India
by Christophe Jaffrelot - 218-232 Collective Conservatism and the Constituent Assembly Debates: The Case of Free Speech in India
by Malvika Maheshwari - 233-247 The Political Economy of Economic Conservatism in India: From Moral Economy to Pro-business Nationalism
by Adnan Naseemullah - 248-261 The Congress in Gujarat (1917–1969): Conservative Face of a Progressive Party
by Christophe Jaffrelot - 262-268 Teaching Political Violence: Experiences from a South Asian Classroom
by Ankur Datta - 269-275 Studying Indian Politics with Large-scale Data: Indian Election Data 1961–Today
by Francesca R. Jensenius & Gilles Verniers - 276-285 Vote Choice of Indian Voters: Guided or Independent?
by Shreyas Sardesai & Vibha Attri - 286-287 Book Review: James Manor, The Writings of James Manor: Politics and State–Society Relations in India
by Anusha - 287-289 Book Review: Tarini Bedi, The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena: Political Matronage in Urbanizing India
by Garima Dhabhai - 289-291 Book Review: Kanchan Chandra. (Ed.), Democratic Dynasties: State, Party and Family in Contemporary Indian Politics
by Ritambhara Malaviya - 291-293 Book Review: Pranab Kumar Das (ed.), Decentralisation, Governance and Development: An Indian Perspective and Satyajit Singh, The Local in Governance: Politics, Decentralization and Environment
by Himadri Chatterjee - 293-295 Book Review: Anuj Bhuwania, Courting the People: Public litigation in Post Emergency India
by Awadhendra Sharan - 295-297 Book Review: Prerna Singh, How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India
by Satyajit Singh - 297-299 Book Review: Achin Vanik, After the Bomb and Ali Ahmed, India’s Doctrine Puzzle—Limiting War in South Asia
by Rajiv Nayan - 300-301 Alfred Stepan (1936–2017)
by K. K. Kailash
June 2017, Volume 5, Issue 1
- 1-17 Political Pressures and Bureaucratic Consequences: Vignettes of Janmabhoomi Implementation in Andhra Pradesh
by Kiran Konkipudi & Suraj Jacob - 18-31 After Silent Revolution: Most Marginalized Dalits and Local Democracy in Uttar Pradesh, North India
by Satendra Kumar - 32-41 Padayatras and the Changing Nature of Political Communication in India
by Radhika Kumar - 42-54 Decentralized Governance and Devolution of Funds to the Panchayats in India: A Critical Analysis of Two States
by M. Gopinath Reddy & Bishnu Prasad Mohapatra - 55-66 Understanding Ethnicity-based Autonomy Movements: A Study of Manipur
by Komol Singha - 67-72 Doing Political Science Differently: Experiences from an Institute of Social Sciences
by Jagannath Ambagudia - 73-81 Political Processes under the Microscope: Comparative Ethnography as an Approach to Understanding Democracy and Elections in India
by Manisha Priyam - 82-91 Time of Vote Choice in India
by Shreyas Sardesai & Jyoti Mishra - 92-93 Book Review: Hilal Ahmed, Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation
by Christophe Jaffrelot - 93-95 Book Review: Rajshree Chandra (ed.), The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Biocultural
by Hidam Premananda - 95-97 Book Review: Rekha Chowdhary, Jammu and Kashmir: Politics of Identity and Separatism
by Sangit Kumar Ragi - 97-99 Book Review: Tariq Thachil, Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India
by Vibha Attri - 99-102 Book Review: Sunil Khilnani, Vikram Raghavan and Arun K. Thiruvengadam (eds), Comparative Constitutionalism in South Asia, Maneesha Tikekar (ed.), Constitutionalism and Democracy in South Asia; Political Developments in India’s Neighbourhood and Mark Tushent and Madhav Khosla (eds), Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia
by Alisha Dhingra - 102-104 Book Review: Paula Banerjee, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury and Atig Ghosh (eds), The State of Being Stateless: An Account of South Asia
by Ravi Sriramachandran - 105-158 Assembly Elections 2014–2016
by Vibha Attri & Himanshu Bhattacharya
December 2016, Volume 4, Issue 2
- 1-1 Editorial
by Suhas Palshikar - 143-158 Ambedkar’s Framing of the ‘Political’ within Ethical Practice
by Rajeev Kadambi - 159-177 Women Police in the City of Delhi: Gender Hierarchies, ‘Pariah Femininities’ and the Politics of Presence
by Santana Khanikar - 178-190 Spurn Thy Neighbour: The Politics of Indigeneity in Manipur
by Thongkholal Haokip - 191-205 Disputed Waters: India, Pakistan and the Transboundary Rivers
by Amit Ranjan - 206-217 Health Movement and Civil Society Activism: An Interface of Overlap and Exclusion
by Skylab Sahu - 218-232 Quota for Patels? The Neo-middle-class Syndrome and the (partial) Return of Caste Politics in Gujarat
by Christophe Jaffrelot - 233-240 What Does the International Mean? IR’s Deep Ontology and the Promise It Holds
by Atul Mishra - 241-248 Design-based Approach in Social Science Research
by Anustubh Agnihotri & Rahul Verma - 249-250 Book Review: Louise Tillin, Rajeshwari Deshpande and K.K. Kailash (eds), Politics of Welfare: Comparisons across Indian States
by Ajit Phadnis - 251-252 Book Review: Manish K. Jha and Pushpendra (eds), Traversing Bihar: The Politics of Development and Social Justice
by Jeffrey Witsoe - 252-253 Book Review: Sanjay Ruparelia, Divided We Govern: Coalition Politics in Modern India
by Mona G. Mehta - 254-256 Book Review: Anastasia Piliavsky (ed.), Patronage as Politics in South Asia
by Rahul Verma - 256-258 Book Review: Samir Kumar Das (ed.), India: Democracy and Violence
by Ngoru Nixon - 258-259 Book Review: K.S. Subramanian, State, Policy and Conflicts in Northeast India
by Akhil Ranjan Dutta - 260-265 ‘Persistent Centrism’ and Its Explanations
by Ujjwal Kumar Singh & Anupama Roy - 266-273 A Distinctive Indian Political Economy: New Concepts and a Synthesizing Framework
by Aseema Sinha - 274-279 Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph: In Memoriam
by Asha Sarangi
June 2016, Volume 4, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial
by N/A - 1-7 Democracy, Governance and Political Parties in India: An Introduction
by K.C. Suri & Carolyn Elliott & David Hundt - 8-21 India’s States: The Struggle to Govern
by James Manor - 22-36 Clientelism and the Democratic Deficit
by Carolyn Elliott - 37-48 Politics as Business: An Analysis of the Political Parties in Contemporary India
by Prakash Sarangi - 49-62 Dalit Parties and the Dilemmas of Democratization in Tamil Nadu
by Hugo Gorringe - 63-76 Federal Coalitions in India: Strategic Calculations and Revolving-door Partners
by K.K. Kailash & Balveer Arora - 77-89 Mass Politics and Institutional Restraint: Political Parties and the Election Commission of India
by Manjari Katju - 90-101 Encapsulation without Integration? Electoral Democracy and the Ambivalent Moderation of Hindu Nationalism in India
by Subrata K. Mitra - 102-115 The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Left Government in West Bengal, 1977–2011: Strains of Governance and Socialist Imagination
by Hans Löfgren - 116-118 Shodharthy: An Initiative towards Empowering Indian Language Students
by A.K. Verma - 119-127 Political Ethnography as a Method for Understanding Urban Politics and Elections in India
by Manisha Priyam - 128-130 Book Review: Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan (eds), The Democratic Predicament: Cultural Diversity in Europe and India
by Mithilesh Kumar Jha - 130-132 Book Review: Sharachchandra Lele and Ajit Menon (eds), Democratizing Forest Governance in India
by Kamal Nayan Choubey - 132-134 Book Review: A. Vinod Kumar, India and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime: The Perennial Outlier
by Rudra Chaudhuri - 134-135 Book Review: Arjun Guneratne and Anita M. Weiss (eds), Pathways to Power: The Domestic Politics of South Asia
by Mark Schneider - 136-137 Book Review: Paul Wallace (ed.), India’s 2014 Elections: A Modi-led BJP Sweep
by Pranav Gupta - 138-142 Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (1930–2015), Lloyd I. Rudolph (1927–2016): A Personal Tribute
by Philip Oldenburg
December 2015, Volume 3, Issue 2
- 149-163 Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian National Congress and Party Politics, 1934–1954
by Rakesh Ankit - 164-178 Democratic Processes in the Context of Separatism and Political Divergence: An Analysis of 2014 Assembly Elections in Jammu and Kashmir
by Rekha Chowdhary - 179-197 Candidate Caste Effects in Uttar Pradesh Elections
by Shikhar Singh - 198-211 India’s Look East Policy: Prospects and Challenges for Northeast India
by Thongkholal Haokip - 212-228 India’s Digital Poll Battle: Political Parties and Social Media in the 16th Lok Sabha Elections
by Neena Talwar Kanungo - 229-246 Towards a Comparative Subnational Perspective on India
by Suraj Jacob - 247-259 The Public Life of a ‘Progressive’ Law: PESA and Gaon Ganarajya (Village Republic)
by Kamal Nayan Choubey - 260-276 Unpacking Public Preference for Increasing Defence Expenditure in India
by Pooja Bakshi - 277-283 Framing the North-East in Indian Politics: Beyond the Integration Framework
by Kham Khan Suan Hausing - 284-289 Ethical Dilemmas of the Encounter: Ethnography, Fieldwork and Political Violence
by Ankur Datta - 290-291 Book Review: M. Madhava Prasad, Cine-Politics: Film Stars and Political Existence in South India
by Rajan Krishnan - 291-294 Book Review: B.L. Shankar and Valerian Roderigues. The Indian Parliament: A Democracy at Work and Sudha Pai and Avinash Kumar (Eds). The Indian Parliament: A Critical Appraisal
by Ajay K. Mehra - 294-296 Book Review: Sandy Gordon, India’s Rise as an Asian Power: Nation, Neighborhood, and Region
by Srinath Raghavan - 296-298 Book Review: Ajay Gudavarthy, Maoism, Democracy and Globalisation: Cross-currents in Indian Politics
by Om Prakash - 299-304 How to (Not) Study Muslim Electoral Responses?
by Hilal Ahmed
June 2015, Volume 3, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial Note
by N/A - 1-4 Rajni Kothari: In Memoriam
by Suhas Palshikar & K.C. Suri - 5-6 Explaining the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections: Introduction
by Christophe Jaffrelot - 7-18 Changing Patterns of Women’s Turnout in Indian Elections
by Sanjay Kumar & Pranav Gupta - 19-38 The Class Element in the 2014 Indian Election and the BJP’s Success with Special Reference to the Hindi Belt
by Christophe Jaffrelot - 39-49 The Impact of Urbanization on the Electoral Results of the 2014 Indian Elections: With Special Reference to the BJP Vote
by Christophe Jaffrelot & Sanjay Kumar - 50-68 The Rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal
by Pralay Kanungo - 69-80 General Election 2014: Will BJP’s Gains Polarize Assam Further?
by Smitana Saikia - 81-93 How Do Muslims Vote? Case of Seemanchal 2014 Parliamentary Elections
by Manindra Nath Thakur - 94-110 Electing the Ruling Party and the Opposition: Voter Deliberations from Sangam Vihar, Delhi, Lok Sabha Elections 2014
by Manisha Priyam - 111-123 Understanding Urban–Rural Patterns of BJP Campaigning in UP (Lok Sabha Elections 2014)
by Siddhartha Mukerji - 124-127 Engendering Political Science in the Classroom
by Shefali Jha - 128-133 Scaling Up: Beyond the Subnational Comparative Method for India
by Aseema Sinha - 134-136 Book Review: Suhas Palshikar, K.C. Suri and Yogendra Yadav, eds, Party Competition in Indian States
by Amitabh Dubey - 136-139 Book Review: Rob Jenkins, Loraine Kennedy and Partha Mukhopadhyay, eds, Power, Protest and India’s Special Economic Zones
by Aseema Sinha - 139-140 Book Review: Mukulika Banerjee. Why India Votes?
by Gilles Verniers - 140-142 Book Review: Manindra Nath Thakur and Dhananjay Rai, eds, Democracy on the Move? Reflections on Moments, Promises and Contradictions
by Harsh Sethi - 142-143 Book Review: Kuldeep Mathur, Public Policy and Politics in India: How Institutions Matter
by Jyoti Mishra - 143-145 Book Review: Uddipana Goswami, Conflict and Reconciliation: The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam
by Santana Khanikar - 145-147 Book Review: Louise Tillin, Remapping India: New States and Their Political Origins
by Rekha Saxena
December 2014, Volume 2, Issue 2
- 119-135 Indigenism in Contemporary IR Discourses in India: A Critique
by Atul Mishra - 137-151 The BJP’s Fragile Mandate: Modi and Vote Mobilizers in the 2014 General Elections
by Pradeep K. Chhibber & Susan L. Ostermann - 153-167 Understanding the Defeat of the BSP in Uttar Pradesh: National Election 2014
by Sudha Pai - 169-183 Seeking OBC Status: Political Strategies of Two Dominant Castes
by Rajeshwari Deshpande - 185-202 Institutionalizing a Coalitional System and Games within Coalitions in India (1996–2014)
by K.K. Kailash - 203-214 Electoral Politics in Madhya Pradesh: Explaining the BJP Consolidation
by Yatindra Singh Sisodia - 215-229 Affirmative Action for Muslims? Arguments, Contentions and Alternatives
by Mohd. Sanjeer Alam - 231-235 Critical Studies in Politics—An Introductory Note
by Aditya Nigam - 237-242 The Promise of Ethnography for the Study of Politics
by Satendra Kumar - 243-245 Book Review: Oliver Mendelsohn, Law and Social Transformation in India
by Anushka Singh - 245-247 Book Review: Ajay K. Mehra (ed.), Party System in India: Emerging Trajectories
by Asha Sarangi - 247-249 Book Review: David N. Gellner, ed., Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia
by Nasreen Chowdhory - 249-251 Book Review: Maya Tudor, The Promise of Power: The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan
by David Gilmartin - 251-253 Book Review: Shrikant Paranjpe, India’s Strategic Culture: The Making of National Security Policy and Chris Ogden, Hindu Nationalism and the Evolution of Contemporary Indian Security: Portents of Power
by Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu - 253-255 Book Review: Dayabati Roy, Rural Politics in India: Political Stratification and Governance in West Bengal
by Neelanjan Sircar - 255-257 Book Review: Suryakant Waghmore, Civility against Caste: Dalit Politics and Citizenship in Western India
by Dishil Shrimankar - 259-260 Obituary Hans Lofgren (1953–2014)
by K.C. Suri - 261-262 Obituary Granville Austin: The Social Constitutionalist
by Ashutosh Kumar - 263-263 Corrigendum
by N/A
June 2014, Volume 2, Issue 1
- 1-19 Studying the Indian Legislature: What does Question Hour Reveal?
by Srikrishna Ayyangar & Suraj Jacob - 21-41 Governing the Resource: A Study of the Institutions of Decentralized Forest Resource Management
by Lavanya Suresh - 43-54 Civil Society’s Engagement with ULFA in Assam: A Historical Exploration
by Akhil Ranjan Dutta - 55-66 On Civil Society, Again: Civil Society, State and Public Policy in South India
by Anil Kumar Vaddiraju - 67-80 Changing Risk for Landless Populations: How Structural Transformation Influences Communist Success in Rural India
by Triveni Gandhi - 81-97 Return of the ‘National’ in Indian Elections: When do National-level Factors Play a Role in Influencing the Outcomes of State Assembly Elections?
by Rahul Verma & Jyoti Mishra & Shreyas Sardesai & Sanjay Kumar - 99-104 Syllabi and Textbooks of Political Science: Three Notes
by Shailendra Kharat & Mirza Asmer Beg & Gauri Kopardekar - 105-108 Making Surveys Work Better: Experiments in Public Opinion Research
by Irfan Nooruddin - 109-111 Book Review: Achin Vanaik, ed., ICSSR Research Surveys and Explorations: Political Science
by Aparna Devare - 111-114 Book Review: Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, eds, Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for other Developing Countries and Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, eds, An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions
by Rob Jenkins - 114-117 Book Review: Ajay Gudvarthy, ed., Reframing Democracy and Agency in India: Interrogating Political Society and Ajay Gudavarthy, ed., Politics of Post-Civil Society: Contemporary History of Political Movements in India
by Ankita Pandey
December 2013, Volume 1, Issue 2
- 1-1 Note from the Editors
by Suhas Palshikar & K.C. Suri - 127-133 India’s Nationhood: History as Contemporary Politics
by D.L. Sheth - 135-152 The 2013 Karnataka Assembly Outcome: Government Performance and Party Organization Matters
by Sandeep Shastri - 153-177 Making Sense of the House: Explaining the Decline of the Indian Parliament amidst Democratization
by Rahul Verma & Vikas Tripathi - 179-201 Gross Violations of Duverger’s Law in India
by Peter Mayer - 203-212 ‘How Different Are Goa’s Politics?’
by Arthur G. Rubinoff - 213-229 Was the Delimitation Commission Unfair to Muslims?
by Francesca Refsum Jensenius - 231-234 De-structuring Political Science
by Ajay Gudavarthy - 235-240 National and Subnational Comparative Politics: Why, What and How
by Louise Tillin - 241-244 Book Review: Security and Development in India’s Northeast, Confronting the State: ULFA’s Quest for Sovereignty and Perilous Journey: Debates on Security and Development in Assam
by Deepak K. Singh - 244-246 Book Review: India’s Rights Revolution: Has it Worked for the Poor?
by Monica Sakhrani - 246-248 Book Review: Democracy and Its Institutions
by Krishna Menon - 248-249 Book Review: Corruption and Reform in India: Public Services in the Digital Age
by Irfan Nooruddin - 250-252 Book Review: More than Maoism: Politics and Policies of Insurgency in South Asia and Ordinary People, Extraordinary Violence
by Rumela Sen - 252-253 Book Review: Green and Saffron: Hindu Nationalism and Indian Environmental Politics
by Janaki Srinivasan - 253-255 Book Review: Mobilizing Restraint: Democracy and Industrial Conflict in Post-reform South Asia
by Jolie M.F. Wood - 255-257 Book Review: New Subjects and New Governance in India
by Ashutosh Kumar
June 2013, Volume 1, Issue 1
- 1-1 Introduction to the First Issue
by Suhas Palshikar & K.C. Suri - 1-5 Rajni Kothari’s Career in Political Science
by Lloyd I. Rudolph & Susanne Hoeber Rudolph - 7-11 Underestimating Rajni Kothari
by James Manor - 13-20 The Enigma that is Politics in India
by Yogendra Yadav - 21-41 Political Responses to Religious Diversity in Ancient and Modern India
by Rajeev Bhargava - 43-63 How has Indian Federalism Done?
by Ashutosh Varshney - 65-77 Politics of Governance: A Study of Gujarat
by Ghanshyam Shah - 79-95 Gujarat Elections: The Sub-Text of Modi’s ‘Hattrick’—High Tech Populism and the ‘Neo-middle Class’
by Christophe Jaffrelot - 97-101 Political Science in India: Who Teaches What, to Whom and What for?
by Rajeshwari Deshpande - 103-107 Perspectives on Methods in Political Science
by Divya Vaid - 109-111 Book Review: The Oxford Companion to Politics in India
by K. K. Kailash - 111-113 Book Review: India Since 1980
by Milan Vaishnav - 113-115 Book Review: Poverty Amid Plenty in the New India
by John Echeverri-Gent - 115-117 Book Review: The Indian Ideology. Gurgaon: Three Essays Collective
by Ajay Gudavarthy - 117-119 Book Review: Party System Change in South India: Political Entrepreneurs, Patterns and Processes
by Shailendra Kharat - 119-120 Book Review: Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and Poverty in India
by Tarangini Sriraman - 121-122 Book Review: Gender and Green Governance
by Carolyn Elliott - 123-124 Book Review: Transnational Torture: Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India
by Rakesh Mehar - 125-126 Book Review: Debating Difference: Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India
by Rajeshwari Deshpande