Publications by Vaibhav Parik
Congress: Performances, Fortunes and Favourability
Overview This note presents a look at the state of India’s grand old party, the Indian National Congress, from varied lenses. It looks at the following three aspects - The electoral fortunes of Congress in state assembly elections across India The profile of Congress’ candidates in terms of their finances, age/experience as well as their cri...
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Party Stability and Volatility in India
Overview The following analysis uses the base file of each party in each assembly election in India between 1962 and 2021, created during the profiling of India’s political parties. This analysis draws on several notions and concepts of party volatility and stability, more closely on Scott Mainwaring’s analysis of Party System Institutionalis...
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Chief Minister Data Analysis
Data Cleaning Observations The dataset contains information pertaining Chief Ministers from 20 states of India, upto 30th June, 2021. The total number of observations are 498, and there are 23 variables. However, there are a few caveats to mention - While there is a linkage with pids from the Elections Dataset (for those who contested), there ar...
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Party Histories and Trajectories - Uttar Pradesh
This is an attempt to analyse the histories and trajectories of political parties, with a case study of Uttar Pradesh. Using the state elections data from TCPD, a derived pivot has been created which has the following variables initially - Assembly No Year of election Party Vote Share Percentage Seats won Seats Contested House Strength Seat Shar...
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Analysis of Party Trajectories in Indian States
Overview This is a brief overview of data regarding party formation and trajectories across India’s states. Data was compiled from TCPD election data for all Indian states and is accessible in 4 different datasets - The first one contains details about each party in each election in each state, with key variables - vote share, seat share, stri...
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Party Histories and Trajectories - Rajasthan
This is a second case study to look at party histories and trajectories, this time considering the state of Rajasthan. The variables used include all the same ones as Uttar Pradesh. Once again only general elections were considered and bypolls were ommitted. Moreover, Independents and NOTA have been filtered out from the beginning. Below is a pre...
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Profiling India’s Political Parties: Trajectories of Formation and Survival
Overview Reasons for Further Study There are several reasons for why this project will be important to developing an understanding of India’s party system. While databases are now available in the public domain (eg. - TCPD), and even with the existence of past electoral record, the following still lacks - A fundamental understanding of when p...
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