Yogendra Yadav is Co-Director of Lokniti and Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies CSDS. He is the Founder Convenor of the Lokniti network and in 1997 became the founder Director of Lokniti. Professor Yadav has designed and Co-ordinated the National Election Studies from 1996 to 2004 - the largest ever series of academic surveys of the Indian electorate.

Prior to joining the CSDS in 1993, Professor Yadav was Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Panjab University, Chandigarh. Since 1994 he has been a member on the Editorial Collective of Samayik Varta, a monthly magazine in Hindi and a member on the Governing Board of Lokayan (since 1998) and Gandhian Institute of Studies, Varanasi (since 2003). Honorary Fellow, Indian Institute of Political Economy, Pune (since 2004). He is one of the General Editors of Lokchintan and Lokchintak Granthamala, a series of socialism anthologies in Hindi, on the International Advisory Board on the European Journal of Political Research. He is currently the Executive Editor of Smajik Varte. Since 1996 Professor Yadav has been a Psephologist and political commentator on a number of television channels analysing elections.


Research interests :
Professor Yadav's areas of interests include Democracy, democratic theory, election studies, survey research, political theory, modern Indian political thought and Indian socialism.

Selected Publications

Articles in Professional / Refereed journals

	(with Rajeeva L. Karandikar and Clive Payne) 'Predicting the 1998 Indian Parliamentary Elections' Electoral Studies, vol. 21 (2002), pp.69-89.
	'A Radical Agenda for Political Reforms' Seminar, vol. 506 [Reforming Politics], October 2001.
	"The Third Electoral System", Seminar [480: A symposium on the state of our polity and the political system], August 1999.
	Edited (with Aditya Nigam) Special issue on 'Electoral Politics in India, 1989-99', Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXIV(No. 34 and 35), August 21-28, 1999.
	"Electoral Politics in the Time of Change: India's Third Electoral System, 1989-99", Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXIV(No. 34 and 35), August 21-28, 1999, pp. 2393-9.
	(with Anthony Heath) "The United Colours of Congress: Social Profile of Congress Voters, 1996 and 1998", Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXIV(No. 34 and 35), August 21-28, 1999, pp. 2518- 2528.
	"Vaikalpik Rajniti ki Vaikalpik Ran-niti" , Samayik Varta and Andolan, 1999.
	"India, Monograph No. 2 in the series Comparative Electoral Systems in South Asia (Colombo: International Centre for Ethnic Studies, 1997)."
	"CTBT aur Bharatiya Paramanu Bomb ka Charitra" Samayik Varta, August 1998.
	"Bebas Matdata aur Nikkami Sarkaren" Samayik Varta, December 1998.

Articles in Edited Volumes

	"Whose democracy? Which Reforms?: A Plea for Democratic Agenda for Electoral Reforms" in Subhash C. Kashyap et.al.(eds) Reviewing the Constitutions? Delhi: Shipra, 2000
	"Understanding the Second Democratic Upsurge: Trends of Bahujan Participation in Electoral Politics in the 1990s" in Francine R. Frankel, Zoya Hasan, Rajeeva Bhargava and Balveer Arora eds., Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 120-145
	"Politics" in Marshall Bouton and Philip Oldenburg eds. India Briefing: A Transformative Fifty Years, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1999, pp. 3-38
	`Soviet Collapse: Does it Make any Difference to the Indian Left?' in Bhupinder Brar, ed., Soviet Collapse: Implications for India, Delhi: Ajanta, 1993: 21-33.
	`JP's Changing Ideas on Social Change' in Nageshwar Prasad, ed., J.P. and Social Change, Delhi: Radiant, 1992: 48-63.

Authored Books

General editor (with V. B. Singh) of Lokchintan Granthamala, a series of volumes on social science in Hindi, Vani Prakashan, Delhi. Four volumes ['Loktantra ke saat adhyaya', 'Adhunikata ke aine mein Dalit', Rajniti ki Kitab and Bharat mein Bhoomandalikaran]

Professor Yadav has contributed in all about 200 articles in various Newspapers and magazines. His contributions in Hindi have included articles in Jansatta, Navbharat Times, Hans, Samayik Varta, Samay Chetna, Deshkal Samvad, Rashtriya Sahara among others. His contributions in English have been to The Times of India, The Economic Times, The Hindu, The Sunday Observer, The Telegraph, The Tribune and other newspapers and magazines.