Summer School

Lokniti is organizing a Summer Workshop on ‘Analyzing Quantitative Data on Indian Politics’ to be held in Bengaluru in collaboration with Jain University, Bengaluru, in the latter half of June 2020. This is the 14th Summer Workshop on Quantitative Research Methods being organized by Lokniti. 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. 

https://www.lokniti.org/Summer_Workshop_Quantitative_Research

Upcoming Projects

Status of Policing in India Report 2020: Policing in Disturbed Areas

Lokniti, in collaboration with Common Cause, has been preparing a series of baseline documents titled the ‘Status of Policing in India Report’ (SPIR). The idea of the SPIR reports is to improve policing through study of the official data, ground-based surveys and wide-ranging research conducted in collaboration or cooperation with the academia, civil society and government agencies. Two editions of the report have already been published—SPIR 2018, on common people’s perception of policing gauged through a citizens’ survey and a performance evaluation of policing using official data; and SPIR 2019, which was a study of the working conditions and experiences of police personnel gathered through a nation-wide survey, along with measuring police adequacy using official data.

Third in the series of SPIR, the 2020 study is focused on ‘policing in disturbed areas’. We aim to survey both citizens as well as police personnel from districts across the country where some form of conflict, extremism, or insurgency prevails. The objective of the study is to understand how policing functions, and how it ought to function, in extraordinary circumstances.

The study hopes to uncover the realities of policing in conflict areas by mapping the experiences of the relevant stakeholders across various themes. Among other things, the study would interrogate if human rights are more susceptible to be compromised in such disturbed situations, as well as the challenges faced by the police in maintaining law and order in the presence of insurgent and subversive activities. The study will also explore whether, and to what extent does the deployment of the military and para-military forces restricts or changes the role and jurisdiction of the police in that area.