Median Voter Model of India’s Electorate (Updated 2 April 2013: What the Congress does is win the Median Voter in India, which is not the same as winning the Median Voter in Gujarat.)

February 7, 2008 — drsubrotoroy
I published this Median Voter Model of India’s Electorate for the first time to accompany my article Our dismal politics published in The Statesman of February 1 2008. As with other work available at this blog, readers are welcome to use it under the normal “fair use” rule but please be good enough to acknowledge the author and place of first publication. The  mathematical graph itself was from the Internet and I shall acknowledge its (Japanese) author as soon as I can identify his name. The naming and interpretation of the axes is mine.
Subroto Roy
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From Facebook 2 April 2013
Mr Singh said: “I have tried my very best to serve this country with all sincerity and dedication but whether I have succeeded or not, it is for the public at large, the people of India to judge.”’
— Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, after Manmohan Singh had visited our then-home in Paris to advise me about economics at my father’s request, my father said to me he was someone considered to be heading to become PM of India one day… I was surprised…
But let me say what I have said months ago, Manmohan Singh even at 80+ is hands down better than the uncouth rabble-rouser the BJP seems to say it wants to take his job.
Ashok Tripathi  “uncouth rabble-rouser” how so Dr. Roy?
What substantiates such a statement from you? And if t is a question of choice it is between the policy/politics of Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi. The former fails to articulate anything at all – leaving the space in all entirety to Modi. I believe that it is not fair to blame a person for the uncompetitiveness of peers.
Subroto Roy   MrTripahi, I have been a rather harsh critic of Dr Singh’s policies. and indeed of the whole Sonia-Manmohan-Pranab dispensation. Their only redeeming quality is they seem to me better than anything the BJP or the Communists or anyone else can produce.
What the Congress does is win the Median Voter in India, which is not the same as winning the Median Voter in Gujarat.
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One Response to “Median Voter Model of India’s Electorate (Updated 2 April 2013: What the Congress does is win the Median Voter in India, which is not the same as winning the Median Voter in Gujarat.)”

  1. Hans Suter Says:
    February 12, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    Are you familiar with Bernt Spiegel’s “Die Struktur der Meinungsverteilung im sozialen Feld” ? He offers a n-dimensional (non topological), calculable model for opinion-objects (Meinungsobjekte) distribution in the social field.


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