Caste Politics and Redistribution
Avidit Acharya (Assistant Professor from Stanford University), John Roemer (Professor from Yale Univerisity ) and Rohini Somanathan (Professor from Delhi School of Economics)
This survey-based study was focused on isolating the effect of voter’s preference for parties that represent their caste on the equal distribution of government services among three classes: the rich, the middle class and the poor. For this purpose researchers selected a unique tool i.e. rupees. Our team used fake rupees and different type of plates as a symbol of rich (Copper), middle class (steel) and poor (clay). This was a fantastic tool for an opinion poll on voting as illiterate people know the value of money.
In this project, MORSEL was involved from the pilot survey to final data entry. MORSEL surveyed in 46 constituencies in 38 districts of Uttar Pradesh. There were two samples in the project. MORSEL surveyed 250 villages. In each village 18 households were surveyed and one village level questionnaire was done. It means total 4500 households surveyed.
Location: Uttar Pradesh
