Lokniti - Programme for Comparative Democracy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, in collaboration with Jain University,Bengaluru, invites applications for the Summer Workshop on 'Analyzing Quantitative Data on Indian Politics’ to be held in Bengaluru from Monday, 11th July 2016 to Friday, 22nd July 2016.

This is the 10th Summer School being organized by Lokniti-CSDS Some of the leading scholars working on empirical methods in Political Science have been involved in designing this summer school. In this Summer School there will be special emphasis on understanding of quantitative data on Indian politics. We plan to bring together a group of political scientists with the aim of providing them an opportunity to improve their skills in quantitative analysis. The selected participants will be given a set of readings before they come to attend the workshop and will be expected to attend lectures and practical data analysis sessions. Pradeep Chhibber (University of California at Berkeley) Irfan Nooruddin (Georgetown University, Washington) and Siddharth Swaminathan (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru) will be the main resource persons for the workshop along with Sandeep Shastri (Jain University), Sanjay Kumar (CSDS), Suhas Palshikar (Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune), K.C. Suri (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad), Reetika Sayal (Jain University, Bengaluru) and Jyoti Mishra (Lokniti, CSDS).

We invite the following categories of candidates to apply for this workshop (preference will be given to young researchers):

• Teachers of Political Science in colleges and Universities who are working on empirical subjects and would benefit from further training.
• Research students of Political Science who are working on empirical themes for their M. Phil. or Ph. D. dissertations and can benefit from further training.
• Any other person (including those from outside Political Science and outside academia) who are interested in making sense of politics by analyzing quantitative data.

Please send your detailed CV with a statement of research interest (those already registered for M. Phil. or Ph.D. should clearly mention the topic of dissertation along with a brief summary of the objectives and methodologies used) in about 500 words. Applicants should also visit ourhttps://www.lokniti.org/pdf/NES-POST-POLL-2014.pdf/ to access the questionnaire used for National Election Study 2014 and submit a 500 word Note on a research question that interests them based on this questionnaire. Selection for the workshop will be made on the basis of these two write-ups submitted by candidates. The last date for receiving the application is Monday, 18th April 2016.

Please note that this is a full time residential training course and candidates admitted to the workshop are expected to stay at the Institute and engage in full time work on all days during this period.

Apart from taking care of the accommodation and food for all the participants for the entire duration of the workshop, participants will be reimbursed for their travel expenses from their place of residence to Bengaluru and back (Train AC III or its equivalent).

Please send your applications by email to summerschool@CSDS.in or by snail mail to :

Director, Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 
29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines,
Delhi 110 054