"Stability in an era of Political Fragmentation" talk by Mr. Jai Mrug, Independent Scholar, at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 27th August 2012

Time : 3:00 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Seminar on ‘Stability in an era of Political Fragmentation’ by Mr. Jai Mrug, Independent Scholar, Mumbai.
Abstract : Far from instability assembly elections in the previous decade have produced simple majorities, or often more, for a single party or coalitions. Not all, but a significant number of these mandates were often planned for or engineered to leverage the vagaries of the first past the post system or explore mobilization of social groups or geographical regions hitherto not aligned to the respective parties. These tactical realignments have helped the party surge ahead in the first past the post system without significant vote base accretion on the ground. Small but uniform swings help achieve single party or coalition mandates often with a disproportionate seat tally. A combination of conventional indicators such as the Index of Opposition Unity (IOU) and other statistical indicators provides a rare insight into how these mandates are actually configured. A review of key election results since 2003 provides rich insights into how the first past the post system drives mobilization and often inadvertently leads to stable governments in spite of an increasing fragmentation of our polity.

Speaker : An Independent researcher with fourteen years of experience in observing Indian elections and analyzing them for the media. Mr.Jai Murg is a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, in Mechanical Engineering.

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