This is a project on how parties internally negotiate and decide on nominations for elections is being undertaken by intensive interviews with key players in both major and other parties in the 2009 elections, and extended backward as far as possible using available data, for five major political parties. This again is an unresearched subject since the early work on Indian political science in the 1960s and 1970s.
Two papers, one to be written after the 2014 election, on how parties decided on seat-sharing arrangements in pre-electoral coalitions, state by state, for both major alliances and minor alliances, in the 2009 and 2014 elections, is being carried out by both data and intensive interviews with the key players in negotiating such deals in both major parties and other parties. This is a new subject which has not been empirically explored yet, and will result in papers that goes beyond the empirical work and theorizing of an earlier paper (E.
UPIASI had concluded an agreement in April 1998 with the Eisenhower Fellowships (EF) to be the EF's secretariat in India. UPIASI conducted the selection process for the Eisenhower Fellowships Single Nation Program in 1999-2000, and the Multi-Nation Program in 2001-02. During 2003, UPIASI conducted the selection process of the EF’s first Single Region Program for India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
UPIASI has been administering the selection process of the ASIA Fellows Program, an inter-Asian scholarly exchange program covering South Asia, Southeast Asia and China, in South Asia since 1999, on contract with the Asian Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok, terminating in 2012 with the end of the program. The ASIA Fellowships are awarded to scholars and others (public intellectuals, policy makers) who specialize in the study of other Asian countries, to spend 6-9 months doing research in another Asian country.
This is a conference-and-edited volume project on comparative coalition politics in five Asian democracies, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan, comparing patterns of coalition politics across these countries and with the patterns traced in the comparative literature on Western democracies. A conference was held in Bangkok on March 25-26, 2004.
This project examines patterns of coalition politics and the record of coalition governments at the Centre and in five states. The project commenced in October 2003 for a three-year duration. A planning meeting of the project was held on December 13, 2003. Eight political scientists are participating in the project and are doing state-level fieldwork and writing a detailed paper on coalition politics in their states and at the Centre. They are: Suhas Palshikar, University of Pune (Maharashtra), G.
Dr. G. Balachandran, an expert on security studies, was commissioned by UPIASI to carry out a project on Indo-US Relations and Controls on the Export of Dual-Purpose Technologies to India, funded by a grant to UPIASI from the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. He visited Washington, DC, to do research in January 2005. A draft paper on policy options on the export of dual-purpose technologies to India from the US was submitted to the MEA in May 2005.
This project is in collaboration with Penn’s International Literacy Institute and Graduate School of Education.
This project was transferred from the University of California, Berkeley, where it was originally lodged from 1995-2000 to UPIASI by the Ford Foundation. The project was directed by Dr. E. Sridharan, Academic Director and Chief Executive, UPIASI, with Ambassador K. Shankar Bajpai, the originator of the project, as Coordinator. The project consisted of exchange visits of one month each by four American and four Indian scholars to each other’s country to research and write a paper reflecting on some aspect of their country’s politics in the light of a study of the other country’s experience.
This project seeks to do long-range research on conflict resolution and cooperation building in South Asia by applying international relations theory literature to the region and by supporting scholars from the countries of the region to do fieldwork and write research papers on different aspects of regional conflict and cooperation. The project has resulted in three volumes, E.
