Mapping Class and Electoral Participation in India from 1996 to 2019
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6170675 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Divya Vaid (0000-0001-8846-0375, Jawaharlal Nehru University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-257 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Indian Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2321-0230 • E-ISSN: 2321-7472 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/23210230231206649 |
| OpenAlex | W4389395539 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article studies the relation between class and electoral participation. While the relation between political participation and many demographic variables such as caste, gender, age and location has been well researched in India, the same is not the case for the relation between class and electoral participation. Multiple measures of class (income, asset-wealth, occupation and education) are explored and conceptualized in this article, following which these measures of class are operationalized using the National Election Study datasets covering a twenty-three-year period (1996–2019). Each of these measures is used to trace the relation of class with two outcomes of electoral participation (turnout and party vote share) over time. Disaggregation by gender, locality and caste is provided. Finally, regression analysis to study the impact of these variables on turnout and vote share reveals the complexity of class. We find a complex picture of turnout and party choice with variation across different class measures. More significantly, variations in results raise questions about the usefulness of existing class indices. Further, we find that the type of measure being used affects different outcomes differently. For turnout, income and wealth seem to be better predictors, and for party vote share, subjective class is a better fit, whereas asset-wealth displays opposite patterns to income and subjective class in some instances
Asset (computer security · Caste · Class (philosophy · Demographic economics · Economics · Operationalization · Per capita · Per capita income · Political science · Politics · Social class · Sociology · Turnout · Voting · Demography · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |