Shikhar Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shikhar Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shikhar |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2213-6227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India's Small-Town Councils
Governments across the Global South have decentralized a degree of power to municipal authorities. Are local officials sufficiently knowledgeable about how to execute their expanded portfolio of responsibilities? Past studies have focused on whether citizens lack the requisite information to hold local officials accountable. We instead draw on extensive fieldwork and a novel survey of small-town politicians in India to show that local officials t…
An Outbreak of Selective Attribution
Crises and disasters give voters an opportunity to observe the incumbent's response and reward or punish them for successes and failures. Yet, even when voters perceive events similarly, they tend to attribute responsibility selectively, disproportionately crediting their party for positive developments and blaming opponents for negative developments. We examine selective attribution during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, reporting th…
Candidate Caste Effects in Uttar Pradesh Elections
This article assesses the impact of a candidate’s caste on the probability of voting for a party. Candidate caste effects may be pronounced in multiethnic societies and patronage democracies. This is demonstrated for four political parties in Uttar Pradesh (India) across three state elections. Using data from fieldwork, a logistic regression is employed to test two hypotheses—voters are more likely to vote for a party if it fields a candidate fro…
An Outbreak of Selective Attribution
Crises and disasters give voters an opportunity to observe the incumbent's response and reward or punish them for successes and failures. Yet, even when voters perceive events similarly, they tend to attribute responsibility selectively, disproportionately crediting their party for positive developments and blaming opponents for negative developments. We examine selective attribution during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, reporting th…
Candidate Caste Effects in Uttar Pradesh Elections
This article assesses the impact of a candidate’s caste on the probability of voting for a party. Candidate caste effects may be pronounced in multiethnic societies and patronage democracies. This is demonstrated for four political parties in Uttar Pradesh (India) across three state elections. Using data from fieldwork, a logistic regression is employed to test two hypotheses—voters are more likely to vote for a party if it fields a candidate fro…
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India's Small-Town Councils
Governments across the Global South have decentralized a degree of power to municipal authorities. Are local officials sufficiently knowledgeable about how to execute their expanded portfolio of responsibilities? Past studies have focused on whether citizens lack the requisite information to hold local officials accountable. We instead draw on extensive fieldwork and a novel survey of small-town politicians in India to show that local officials t…
Candidate Caste Effects in Uttar Pradesh Elections
This article assesses the impact of a candidate’s caste on the probability of voting for a party. Candidate caste effects may be pronounced in multiethnic societies and patronage democracies. This is demonstrated for four political parties in Uttar Pradesh (India) across three state elections. Using data from fieldwork, a logistic regression is employed to test two hypotheses—voters are more likely to vote for a party if it fields a candidate fro…
An Outbreak of Selective Attribution
Crises and disasters give voters an opportunity to observe the incumbent's response and reward or punish them for successes and failures. Yet, even when voters perceive events similarly, they tend to attribute responsibility selectively, disproportionately crediting their party for positive developments and blaming opponents for negative developments. We examine selective attribution during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, reporting th…
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India's Small-Town Councils
Governments across the Global South have decentralized a degree of power to municipal authorities. Are local officials sufficiently knowledgeable about how to execute their expanded portfolio of responsibilities? Past studies have focused on whether citizens lack the requisite information to hold local officials accountable. We instead draw on extensive fieldwork and a novel survey of small-town politicians in India to show that local officials t…
Political science (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Accountability (1 work) · Attribution (1 work) · Blame (1 work) · Caste (1 work) · Competence (human resources (1 work)