Election Studies in India

Election Studies in India Imtiaz Ahmad While election studies have proliferated in the last two decades, they have failed to equip us with any expertise either in the anticipation and prediction of electoral outcomes or in understanding electoral processes generally. Their contribution in enabling us to arrive at any precise formulations about the political behaviour of the Indian electorate has been marginal This is dismaying as a huge quantum of scarce national resources has been involved in the whole enterprise of election studies.