An Analysis of Elections in India

本项目有两个目的：分析第14届议会下院选举和追踪自1977年以来议会成员的社会经济背景的变化。取得的成果如下：1.顺利完成了对第十四届立国集团选举的分析。这本名为《印度民主的转型》的书于2006年2月出版，书中有28名学者研究每一个邦和三个联邦领土，以及至少有一个席位的所有政党。这本书是从1998年选举开始的选举分析系列的第三卷，不仅更全面，而且更关注每个邦的社会经济状况。2.用于选举分析的地理信息系统方法使分析更加系统化。3.该项目的结果已在日本国内外公布。(1)为日本南亚研究协会年度会议1和2、2和2，组织了一次关于“印度民主和第14届人民党选举”的小组讨论。(2)广罗斯高子于2004年3月在印度国立大学、德里和新加坡伊萨斯大学发表了一篇题为《印度民主与第十四届人民党选举》的论文。所有议员的姓名、选区、政党、以前的职业、教育程度、家庭背景等数据都已被收集并输入计算机。然而，这些数据尚未按照我们的参考框架进行简化，并以地理信息系统的形式显示。一些分析性和高度学术性的论文计划在18个月内完成，并发表在一份学术期刊上。

The present project had two aims : to analyse the 14^<th> Lok Sabha (the Lower House) elections and to trace the changes of the socio-economic backgrounds of the Members of Parliament since 1977. The achievements are as follows.1.The analysis of the 14^<th> Lok Sabha elections has been successfully completed. The book titled Indo Minshushugi no Henyou (The Transformation of Indian Democracy) was published in February, 2006, with 28 scholars dealing with each and every state plus three union territories and all the political parties with at least one seat. This volume, a third in the series of the election analyses starting with the 1998 elections, is not only more comprehensive, but it also pays more attention to the socio-economic conditions of each state.2.The GIS method utilized for the election analyses has rendered the analysis more systematic.3.The findings of the project have been presented both in Japan and outside.(1)A panel was organised on "Indian Democracy and the 14^<th> Lok Sabha Elections," for the annual conference of the Japan Association of South Asian Studies on 1^<st> and 2^<nd> October, 2005.(2)Takako Hirose presented a paper on "The Indian Democracy and the 14^<th> Lok Sabha Elections," at JNU, Delhi and ISAS in Singapore in March 2006.4.The second part of the research is still incomplete. The data on all the Members of Parliament, their names, constituencies, political parties, previous occupations, educations, family backgrounds, etc. have been collected and inputted into the computer. However, the data are yet to be streamlined according to our frames of reference and presented in the GIS form. A couple of analytical and highly academic papers are scheduled to be completed within 18 months and published in an academic journal.