Interview: Gilles Verniers on the pressing need to study Indian politics between elections
The co-director of the Trivedi Centre for Political Data on the need for an open-data ecosystem and what Indian political scientists students need to know. 11 hours ago An voter in Chennai gestures as others queue to cast their vote at a polling station in Chennai on April 18, 2019. | Arun Sankar/AFP
This week the team at the Trivedi Centre for Political Data at Ashoka University unveiled its latest resource: A political career tracker, allowing anyone to follow the trajectory of election candidates for national polls as well as those of 20 states, going all the way back to 1962. The resource is only the latest in a series of tools and databases that have been made available by the Centre, where Belgian political scientist Gilles Verniers is co-director.
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