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Yogendra Yadav Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Co-Director of Lokniti |
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Yogendra Yadav is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Co-Director of Lokniti - Institute for Comparative Democracy. Yadav has coordinated the National Election Studies from 1996 to 2004, the largest ever series of academic surveys of the Indian electorate. Prior to joining CSDS in 1993, he was Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Punjab University.
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Chat Topic: Increasing pressures of exit poll forecasting
4 pm | Monday, May 26, 2008
Exit poll forecasters have been proven wrong in the Karnataka Assembly elections. The BJP has won--a verdict which few forecasters saw coming. Is exit poll forecasting an impossible task? Is it futile to predict election results in India? Pose your questions to Prof Yadav.