@article{772174,
      recid = {772174},
      author = {Borooah, Vani Kant.},
      title = {Votes, Parties, and Seats : a Quantitative Analysis of  Indian Parliamentary Elections, 1962-2014.},
      publisher = {Springer International Publishing,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource (173 pages)},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {"This starkly lucid and timely book absorbs the nuances of  the largest festival - the elections - of the world's  largest democracy. Hailing from a political family, the  author conveys his passion and knowledge on the  intricacies, as well as the heat and dust of his national  fête. All data and events have been methodically examined  in this absorbing analytical work which is an indispensable  and scholarly book on the Indian elections."--Thankom Arun,  Professor at the University of Essex, UK This book provides  a quantitative analysis of eight elections and an insight  into voting patterns, detailing the election result for  each candidate, for all the constituencies, in every Lok  Sabha (the lower house of India's Bicameral-Parliament)  general election from 1962 to 2014. The central purpose of  this interrogation of data is to give shape to the notion  of 'electoral efficiency', or the capacity of a part to  convert votes into parliamentary seats. Parliamentary  elections in India - and also elections to its state  assemblies - are conducted under the First Past the Post  (FPTP) system whereby a single representative for each of  the 543 constituencies is elected as a Member of the Lok  Sabha, on the basis of obtaining the largest number of all  the candidates contesting that constituency. In brief,  Votes, Parties, and Seats provides an in-depth study of the  results of parliamentary general elections in India, and  sheds light on why some parties are more efficient than  others.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/772174},
}