Kailash is with the Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh. He was with the Regional Institute of Education (Bhopal), a constituent unit of the National Council of Education Research and Training before he joined the Department at Chandigarh in 2006. He has been teaching courses on Indian politics, Federalism and Policies and Politics of Development in India.
Kailash has been associated with CSDS since 2006. He was a member of the Textbook Development Committee constituted by the NCERT for the preparation of the Class XII textbook on Indian Politics. He has been a member of the team that coordinated the project on Democratic Governance in Indian States- a project conducted by the Lokniti programme of CSDS in 2007-9. He also worked as a member of the team that drafted the questionnaire instrument for the National Election Study 2009. Kailash has attended the summer workshop in quantitative methods for analyzing Indian politics (jointly organised by the Lokniti, University of Michigan and IIAS, Shimla) at Shimla in June 2008 and 2009.
Research Interests:
His areas of interest include political institutions and governance in India, coalition politics and processes, political parties, elections, federalism and centre-state relations.
Selected Publications :
Articles in Professional/Refereed Journals
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Middle Game in Coalition Politics, Economic and Political Weekly, 42(4) January 27, 2007: 307-317. |
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Alliances and Lessons of Election 2009, Economic and Political Weekly, 44 (39), September 26, 2009:52-57. |
Articles in Edited Volumes
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Policy making in India's federal coalitions: The Group of Ministers Device, in Hoshiar Singh, P.C. Mathur and Pankaj Singh (ed.), Coalition Governments and Good Governance, (Jaipur: Aalekh, 2007) 167-225. Co-author with Balveer Arora |
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The Emerging Politics of Cohabitation: New Challenges, in Ajay Mehra (ed) The Fifteenth General Election and Emerging Trends in Indian Politics, (Routledge: New Delhi, 2010) |
Monographs, Reports and Occasional Papers
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Re-imagining Democracy and the CSDS Tradition for Democracy Round Table 2008, June 17- 18, 2008 organised by CSDS in association with IDEA. |
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Who is the Un-opinionated? An Analysis of NES 2004, Lokniti-CSDS Summer workshop on research methodology in Analysing Quantitative Data on Indian Politics |
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Coalitions and Federal Calculations in States: Is State Politics an Autonomous Domain?, Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Pune, Pune |
| Kailash has reviewed books for Seminar, Internationles Asien Forum: International Quarterly Journal for Asian Studies, Publius, Contemporary South Asia and Political Science Review and also written opinion articles in the Indian Express. He has been also been a visiting fellow at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Pune, Pune. |
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