scholarly journals Is the Anti-Incumbency Sentiment Changing in Tamil Nadu? A Case Study of 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anurag Piyamrao Wasnik ◽  
◽  
Divya Saroja Chayanam ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
Gradual Shift ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Ruling Party

Elections are the most important pillar of democracy. A voter's behaviour is influenced by many parameters that can turn the outcome of the election. Many constituencies follow a certain voting pattern. The voters of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, have often been categorized as having an anti-incumbency sentiment, where the ruling party has often switched in every consecutive election. However, there seems to be a gradual shift in this sentiment. This paper presents a case on the relaxation of the anti-incumbency sentiment by analyzing the voting data across the constituencies in the five elections of the last two decades. Some aspects which could have contributed to this voting behaviour are also discussed.

scholarly journals Is the Anti-Incumbency Sentiment Changing in Tamil Nadu? A Case Study of 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anurag Piyamrao Wasnik ◽  
Divya Saroja Chayanam
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
Gradual Shift ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Ruling Party

Elections are the most important pillar of democracy. A voter's behaviour is influenced by many parameters that can turn the outcome of the election. Many constituencies follow a certain voting pattern. The voters of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, have often been categorized as having an anti-incumbency sentiment, where the ruling party has often switched in every consecutive election. However, there seems to be a gradual shift in this sentiment. This paper presents a case on the relaxation of the anti-incumbency sentiment by analyzing the voting data across the constituencies in the five elections of the last two decades. Some aspects which could have contributed to this voting behaviour are also discussed.

Analysing an ICT4D Project in India Using the Capability Approach and a Virtuous Spiral Framework

2010 ◽  
pp. 50-75
Author(s):  
Helena Grunfeld ◽  
Sriram Guddireddigari ◽  
Benita Marian ◽  
John Peter ◽  
Vijay Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Children Education

The field research covered in this chapter represents the first wave of a longitudinal study, aimed at testing a framework for evaluating the contribution to capabilities, empowerment and sustainability of information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) projects. Key features of the framework are: it is conceptually informed by Amartya Sen’s capability approach (CA), uses a participatory methodology and longitudinal timeframe, and considers the micro-, meso-, and macro- levels in understanding the role of ICT in development. Despite the longitudinal nature of the framework, each stage of the research is designed to be a case study in its own right. The research, conducted at a computer centre in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, centred on the perception of participants with respect to whether the centre had played a role in any improvements in the community and whether they could see a role for it in changes they would like to see, or aspirations they may have for their communities. A key finding of the field research was that participants valued the centre mainly for its contribution to education of their children. Education was appreciated beyond its instrumental utility and included intrinsic value, i.e. value that exceeds its potential as a path to higher incomes. Participants frequently referred to how a higher level of literacy would empower them to deal with government officials without intermediaries. This finding is consistent with the CA’s emphasis on development as a process facilitating capabilities that enable people to lead lives they have reason to value.

scholarly journals Comparing written Indian Englishes with the new Corpus of Regional Indian Newspaper Englishes (CORINNE)

ICAME Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-205
Author(s):  
Asya Yurchenko ◽  
Sven Leuckert ◽  
Claudia Lange
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Word Count ◽  
Current Version ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Current Word

Abstract This article introduces the new Corpus of Regional Indian Newspaper Englishes (CORINNE). The current version of CORINNE contains news and other text types from regional Indian newspapers published between 2015 and 2020, covering 13 states and regions so far. The corpus complements previous corpora, such as the Indian component of the International Corpus of English (ICE) as well as the Indian section of the South Asian Varieties of English (SAVE) corpus, by giving researchers the opportunity to analyse and compare regional (written) Englishes in India. In the first sections of the paper we discuss the rationale for creating CORINNE as well as the development of the corpus. We stress the potential of CORINNE and go into detail about selection criteria for the inclusion of newspapers as well as corpus compilation and the current word count. In order to show the potential of the corpus, the paper presents a case study of ‘intrusive as’, a syntactic feature that has made its way into formal registers of Indian English. Based on two subcorpora covering newspapers from Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand, we compare frequencies and usage patterns of call (as) and term (as). The case study lends further weight to the hypothesis that the presence or absence of a quotative in the majority language spoken in an Indian state has an impact on the frequency of ‘intrusive as’. Finally, we foreshadow the next steps in the development of CORINNE as well as potential studies that can be carried out using the corpus.

Economics of Buffalo Milk Production – A Case Study in Rural Tamil Nadu

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 408-409
Author(s):  
Dr. A. Serma Saravana Pandian ◽  
◽  
Dr. K. N. Selvakumar Dr. K. N. Selvakumar ◽  
Dr. M. Prabu Dr. M. Prabu
Keyword(s):  
Milk Production ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Buffalo Milk

V. The Liberal Revival in Northamptonshire, 1880–1895: A Case Study in Late Nineteenth Century Elections

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
English History ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Local Pressures

There can be few fields in modern English history in which the historian is so frustrated by lack of evidence as in the study of elections between the introduction of the secret ballot and the coming of the opinion polls. For threequarters of a century after the Ballot Act was passed there is no precise quantitative evidence relating to movements of opinion or the voting behaviour of different groups within the electorate. We cannot even hope for conclusive evidence of what, in general terms, the determinants of voting behaviour were in this period; how to balance the importance of the national party competition and of local pressures; of the ‘image’ and the leadership of the parties and their programmes; of class loyalties and religious loyalties; of electoral persuasion and the fluctuations of a still unmanaged economy. These questions are strictly unanswerable, for there are no pollbooks from which we can deduce the opinions of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century electors, and they are beyond the reach of questionnaires. The only statistics we possess are the bare figures for votes cast for each party in contested elections, and the number of registered electors in each constituency (from which we can calculate the percentage of voters who went to the poll).

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