K K Kailash
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4169161 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K K Kailash |
| PRENOMES | K K |
| SOBRENOME | Kailash |
| ASSINATURA | KAILASH K K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Hyderabad |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9619-3438 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Burden of Legacy
India’s federal system has witnessed a marked “defederalization” since 2014, where states have been reduced to administrative line agencies, completely overturning the federalizing momentum of the preceding two decades. This trajectory starkly contradicts the BJP’s 2014 manifesto pledge of “harmonious center-state relations,” and reveals an insincere commitment to the idea of federalism. Drawing on Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) resolutions from 1951…
The Politics of Social Welfare
Voting studies tell us that voters reward incumbents who take care of the economic self-interest of voters. However, is the relationship between services and votes simple and straightforward? Are there conditions when welfare provisioning does not convert into votes for the incumbent? Data from the National Election Studies 2024 appears to suggest that voters are discerning and concerned about access issues when it comes to welfare delivery. Vote…
Age and Party Choice
India is in the throes of a massive demographic turn. People born and brought up after 1986 constitute the bulk of the population. Studies elsewhere show that generational replacement transforms societies and can play a key role in changing the political attitudes and behaviour of the electorate. Over the last few general elections the Indian National Congress has witnessed a steady decline in support, while the Bharatiya Janata Party has seen a …
Generations of Constitutional Studies
Dhritarashtra’s embrace
Why do we find more parties from Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha compared to Kerala and why are there more parties in the legislative assembly in Kerala compared to Tamil Nadu? This incongruence is puzzling since elections to both levels of government, federal and state, are based on the single-member simple plurality electoral system and the territorial boundaries of the state, and therefore the societal environment remains constant. This article ar…
The economics of religion in India
Contrary to dominant expectations, religion has not gone away despite all-round economic development; instead, there is considerable empirical evidence to show that religion continues to be a signi
The BJP’s Welfare Schemes
In this article, we use data from the 2019 NES post-poll survey to assess the impact of BJP’s welfare schemes on voting behaviour. We demonstrate that compared to earlier elections, voters are more likely to give credit to the central government as opposed to state governments or local politicians for welfare schemes. This centralization is especially the case for some of the BJP’s new welfare programmes such as Ujjwala and the Jan Dhan Yojana. H…
Beyond Quasi Federalism
States as laboratories
This article examines the role of India’s states in shaping the implementation and framing of social policy within India’s federal system. Since the 2000s, the central government has overseen a substantial expansion of social welfare policies partly through a new push toward rights-based social provision. Yet, it is India’s states that are both responsible for an increasing proportion of total public expenditure on social welfare provision as wel…
Why regional parties? Clientelism, elites, and the Indian party system
Adam Ziegfeld’s book, Why regional parties is refreshing and it is probably among the most ambitious research works in the recent past, both in terms of scope as well as aims on political parties a
Alfred Stepan (1936–2017)
Federal Coalitions in India
The lack of stability of political affiliations has been a recurrent theme in studies on political parties in India. Initially, this concern was voiced in terms of the defections of legislators from the party on whose ticket they were elected. With the advent of federal coalitions, shifting affiliations took on a new dimension, with parties themselves moving between different coalition fronts. This has often been seen as some form of idiosyncrati…
Institutionalizing a Coalitional System and Games within Coalitions in India (1996–2014)
Rather than looking at coalition formation as a single-shot game, this article attempts a more dynamic analysis by exploring the interactive processes between different experiments over time. Comparing coalition experiments since 1996, it finds that there is an inbuilt tension in the nature of the coalition formations in India. India’s federalized party system created a distinctive coalition formation pattern in which territory played a significa…
Federalism in Asia
The book attempts to add to the growing comparative federalism literature by comparing three Asian federations: India, Pakistan and Malaysia. It asserts the now widely accepted notion that federali
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same in India
This paper examines “no opinion” and “don't know” responses in the National Election Study 2004. Comparing responses on social and political questions, it finds that the marginalized sectors of society are more likely to be socially opinionated than to express substantive political opinions. This paradox might explain why the so-called “democratic upsurge” did not produce radical political transformation in India
Federal Calculations in State Level Coalition Governments
When political parties organize, compete and maintain interests at different levels, they bring interconnections both between as well as horizontally across levels. This study suggests that the autonomy of state politics formulation may have to pay greater attention to the federal framework and give more consideration to the role of polity-wide parties. This study uses the autonomy thesis as a heuristic tool and expands the discussion beyond stat…
The BJP’s Welfare Schemes
In this article, we use data from the 2019 NES post-poll survey to assess the impact of BJP’s welfare schemes on voting behaviour. We demonstrate that compared to earlier elections, voters are more likely to give credit to the central government as opposed to state governments or local politicians for welfare schemes. This centralization is especially the case for some of the BJP’s new welfare programmes such as Ujjwala and the Jan Dhan Yojana. H…
Institutionalizing a Coalitional System and Games within Coalitions in India (1996–2014)
Rather than looking at coalition formation as a single-shot game, this article attempts a more dynamic analysis by exploring the interactive processes between different experiments over time. Comparing coalition experiments since 1996, it finds that there is an inbuilt tension in the nature of the coalition formations in India. India’s federalized party system created a distinctive coalition formation pattern in which territory played a significa…
Federal Coalitions in India
The lack of stability of political affiliations has been a recurrent theme in studies on political parties in India. Initially, this concern was voiced in terms of the defections of legislators from the party on whose ticket they were elected. With the advent of federal coalitions, shifting affiliations took on a new dimension, with parties themselves moving between different coalition fronts. This has often been seen as some form of idiosyncrati…
Beyond Quasi Federalism
States as laboratories
This article examines the role of India’s states in shaping the implementation and framing of social policy within India’s federal system. Since the 2000s, the central government has overseen a substantial expansion of social welfare policies partly through a new push toward rights-based social provision. Yet, it is India’s states that are both responsible for an increasing proportion of total public expenditure on social welfare provision as wel…
Federal Calculations in State Level Coalition Governments
When political parties organize, compete and maintain interests at different levels, they bring interconnections both between as well as horizontally across levels. This study suggests that the autonomy of state politics formulation may have to pay greater attention to the federal framework and give more consideration to the role of polity-wide parties. This study uses the autonomy thesis as a heuristic tool and expands the discussion beyond stat…
The Politics of Social Welfare
Voting studies tell us that voters reward incumbents who take care of the economic self-interest of voters. However, is the relationship between services and votes simple and straightforward? Are there conditions when welfare provisioning does not convert into votes for the incumbent? Data from the National Election Studies 2024 appears to suggest that voters are discerning and concerned about access issues when it comes to welfare delivery. Vote…
Age and Party Choice
India is in the throes of a massive demographic turn. People born and brought up after 1986 constitute the bulk of the population. Studies elsewhere show that generational replacement transforms societies and can play a key role in changing the political attitudes and behaviour of the electorate. Over the last few general elections the Indian National Congress has witnessed a steady decline in support, while the Bharatiya Janata Party has seen a …
Dhritarashtra’s embrace
Why do we find more parties from Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha compared to Kerala and why are there more parties in the legislative assembly in Kerala compared to Tamil Nadu? This incongruence is puzzling since elections to both levels of government, federal and state, are based on the single-member simple plurality electoral system and the territorial boundaries of the state, and therefore the societal environment remains constant. This article ar…
Federalism in Asia
The book attempts to add to the growing comparative federalism literature by comparing three Asian federations: India, Pakistan and Malaysia. It asserts the now widely accepted notion that federali
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same in India
This paper examines “no opinion” and “don't know” responses in the National Election Study 2004. Comparing responses on social and political questions, it finds that the marginalized sectors of society are more likely to be socially opinionated than to express substantive political opinions. This paradox might explain why the so-called “democratic upsurge” did not produce radical political transformation in India
Federal Calculations in State Level Coalition Governments
When political parties organize, compete and maintain interests at different levels, they bring interconnections both between as well as horizontally across levels. This study suggests that the autonomy of state politics formulation may have to pay greater attention to the federal framework and give more consideration to the role of polity-wide parties. This study uses the autonomy thesis as a heuristic tool and expands the discussion beyond stat…
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same in India
This paper examines “no opinion” and “don't know” responses in the National Election Study 2004. Comparing responses on social and political questions, it finds that the marginalized sectors of society are more likely to be socially opinionated than to express substantive political opinions. This paradox might explain why the so-called “democratic upsurge” did not produce radical political transformation in India
Federalism in Asia
The book attempts to add to the growing comparative federalism literature by comparing three Asian federations: India, Pakistan and Malaysia. It asserts the now widely accepted notion that federali
Institutionalizing a Coalitional System and Games within Coalitions in India (1996–2014)
Rather than looking at coalition formation as a single-shot game, this article attempts a more dynamic analysis by exploring the interactive processes between different experiments over time. Comparing coalition experiments since 1996, it finds that there is an inbuilt tension in the nature of the coalition formations in India. India’s federalized party system created a distinctive coalition formation pattern in which territory played a significa…
Federal Coalitions in India
The lack of stability of political affiliations has been a recurrent theme in studies on political parties in India. Initially, this concern was voiced in terms of the defections of legislators from the party on whose ticket they were elected. With the advent of federal coalitions, shifting affiliations took on a new dimension, with parties themselves moving between different coalition fronts. This has often been seen as some form of idiosyncrati…
States as laboratories
This article examines the role of India’s states in shaping the implementation and framing of social policy within India’s federal system. Since the 2000s, the central government has overseen a substantial expansion of social welfare policies partly through a new push toward rights-based social provision. Yet, it is India’s states that are both responsible for an increasing proportion of total public expenditure on social welfare provision as wel…
Why regional parties? Clientelism, elites, and the Indian party system
Adam Ziegfeld’s book, Why regional parties is refreshing and it is probably among the most ambitious research works in the recent past, both in terms of scope as well as aims on political parties a
Alfred Stepan (1936–2017)
Beyond Quasi Federalism
Dhritarashtra’s embrace
Why do we find more parties from Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha compared to Kerala and why are there more parties in the legislative assembly in Kerala compared to Tamil Nadu? This incongruence is puzzling since elections to both levels of government, federal and state, are based on the single-member simple plurality electoral system and the territorial boundaries of the state, and therefore the societal environment remains constant. This article ar…
The economics of religion in India
Contrary to dominant expectations, religion has not gone away despite all-round economic development; instead, there is considerable empirical evidence to show that religion continues to be a signi
The BJP’s Welfare Schemes
In this article, we use data from the 2019 NES post-poll survey to assess the impact of BJP’s welfare schemes on voting behaviour. We demonstrate that compared to earlier elections, voters are more likely to give credit to the central government as opposed to state governments or local politicians for welfare schemes. This centralization is especially the case for some of the BJP’s new welfare programmes such as Ujjwala and the Jan Dhan Yojana. H…
Generations of Constitutional Studies
Age and Party Choice
India is in the throes of a massive demographic turn. People born and brought up after 1986 constitute the bulk of the population. Studies elsewhere show that generational replacement transforms societies and can play a key role in changing the political attitudes and behaviour of the electorate. Over the last few general elections the Indian National Congress has witnessed a steady decline in support, while the Bharatiya Janata Party has seen a …
The Politics of Social Welfare
Voting studies tell us that voters reward incumbents who take care of the economic self-interest of voters. However, is the relationship between services and votes simple and straightforward? Are there conditions when welfare provisioning does not convert into votes for the incumbent? Data from the National Election Studies 2024 appears to suggest that voters are discerning and concerned about access issues when it comes to welfare delivery. Vote…
The Burden of Legacy
India’s federal system has witnessed a marked “defederalization” since 2014, where states have been reduced to administrative line agencies, completely overturning the federalizing momentum of the preceding two decades. This trajectory starkly contradicts the BJP’s 2014 manifesto pledge of “harmonious center-state relations,” and reveals an insincere commitment to the idea of federalism. Drawing on Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) resolutions from 1951…
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