Democracy Asia

Please find below a list of Research papers/writings published in journals as well as books contributed by our members.
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A.K. Verma Delimitation in India: Methodological Issues’ Economic And Political Weekly, 4-10 March, 2006.

D.L.Sheth, Globalization and the New Politics of Micro-Movements", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, January 3, 2004.

D.L.Sheth ,Caste in the Mirror of Race, Seminar, 508, December 2001.

Krishna Hachhethu, Civil Society and Political Participation" in Lok Raj Baral. ed. Nepal: Quest for Participatory Democracy, New Delhi: Adroit, 2006.

Krishna Hachhethu, Municipality Leadership and Governance: A case Study of Bhaktapur” in Lok Raj Baral et al. Nepal: Leadership and Governance, New Delhi: Adroit, 2004.

Krishna Hachhethu, Democracy and Nationalism: Interface between State and Ethnicity in Nepal”, Contributions to Nepalese Studies, V.30, No. 2, July 2003.

Krishna Hachhethu, Nepali Politics: Political Parties, Political Crisis and Problem of Governance” in Dhruba Kumar, ed., Domestic Conflicts and Crisis of Governability in Nepal, Kathmandu: Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies, 2000.

Peter R deSouza, Whose Representative? Seminar, 506, October 2001.

Priyavadan M. Patel (2005), "Politics and Mobilization of Lower Classes : Part I", Third Millennium, VIII (4), October-December.

(1A) Priyavadan M. Patel (2006), "Politics and Mobilization of Lower Classes : Part II", Third Millennium, IX (1), January-March.

Sanjay Kumar, Janata Regionalized: Contrasting Bases of Electoral Support in Bihar and Orissa in Rob Jenkins (ed), Regional Reflections: Comparing Politics Across India’s States Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2004.

Sanjay Kumar, Impact of Economic Reforms on Indian Electorate, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIX No. 16, April 17-23, 2004.

Sanjay Kumar, A Tale of three cities, Seminar, number 534, February 2004.

Sanjay Kumar, New Phase in Backward Caste Politics in Bihar: (1990-2000) in Ghanshyam Shah(ed) Caste and Democratic Politics in India, Permanent Black, Delhi, 2002.

Sandeep Shastri, Lok Shakti in Karnataka; A Regional Party in a Bi-Polar Alliance System, Economic and Political Weekly, April 2004.

Suhas Palshikar Caste Politics Through the Prism of Region, in Vora Rajendra and Anne Feldhaus (eds.), Region, Culture and Politics in India, Manohar, New Delhi, 2006.

Suhas Palshikar Shiv Sena: Tiger with Many Faces?, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 34, Nos. 14 &15, April, 3 and 10, 2004.

Suhas Palshikar From Hegemony to Convergence: Party System and Electoral Politics in the Indian States, 1952-2002, (Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar) in Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, Vol. 15, Nos. 1 & 2, 2003.

Suhas Palshikar The Regional Parties and Democracy: Romantic Rendezvous or Localized Legitimation? In Ajay K. Mehra, D.D. Khanna and Gert W. Kueck (eds.), Political Parties and Party Systems, 2003, New Delhi, Sage.

The Democracy Barometers Surveying South Asia

Yogendra Yadav, Open contest, closed options’. Seminar February 2004.

Yogendra Yadav, The Elusive Mandate of 2004 Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XXXIX (No 51), December 18, 2004. Pp 5383-98.

Yogendra Yadav, From hegemony to convergence: Party system and electoral politics in the Indian states, 1952-2002’ Journal of Indian Institute of Political Economy, XV (1&2), January-June 2003.

Yogendra Yadav, Politics in Marshall Bouton and Philip Oldenburg eds. India Briefing: A Transformative Fifty Years, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1999, pp. 3-38. Hindi version in Abhay Dube (ed.) Rajneeti ke Saat Adhyay, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan, 2002.

Yogendra Yadav, A Radical Agenda for Political Reforms’ Seminar, vol. 506 [Reforming Politics], October 2001.