Replication Data for: Which Promises Actually Matter? Election Pledge Centrality and Promissory Representation

Parties make hundreds of campaign promises but not all are seen by voters as central to a party's offering. Studies of government promise fulfilment accept that not all promises are equivalent but in practice treat all promises equally because they lack an appropriate means of measuring promise centrality. To demonstrate the importance of accounting for pledge fulfilment, we develop a conjoint experiment method to measure public opinion about promise centrality which can be used to construct centrality weights. We demonstrate this approach’s utility by examining the 2017 UK Conservative manifesto. Centrality weighting reduces our assessment of Conservative promise-keeping by 21 percentage points (1.3 standard deviations of typical promise completion rates found in comparative studies). Weighting increases the centrality of EU promises sevenfold, immigration promises sixfold, and reduces the centrality of miscellaneous administrative promises by more than half. These results illustrate that pledge centrality cannot be ignored when assessing pledge fulfillment. </i

Pune’s poorest homes ate less meals a day, cut dal and meat during Covid lockdown: Study

The Covid-19 lockdown and economic slowdown hit the lowest income groups of Pune the hardest, even forcing them to cut their consumption of dal, meat and overall number of daily meals, a new study has found. The survey was conducted by Food, Water and Energy for Urban Sustainable Environment (FUSE), a transdisciplinary research project involving Food-Water-Energy Nexus in Pune, India and Amman, Jordan. Under FUSE, researchers from India, Jordan, the US, Germany and Austria work on interdisciplinary and applied research to understand food-water-energy systems. The present survey is a collaboration between Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune and the German researchers

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Equilibria. 2021 March

This month's edition talks about 'Denial' in various socio-economic spheres

Religious leaders can create awareness about family planning: Former CEC

Dr S Y Quraishi at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics on Monday 11 July 2022. RELIGIOUS LEADERS should be involved in community outreach activities to ensure that awareness about family planning reaches everyone, said former Chief Election Commissioner Dr S Y Quraishi. He was speaking at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics at an event to mark World Population Day on Monday. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/religious-leaders-awareness-family-planning-former-cec-8023415

Constructing a Planning Regime: Assessing the Beginning Phases of New Jersey's Plan for Development and Redevelopment

Using the idea of regime formation and cooperation in international political economy as a guide, this paper assesses the first stage (Cross-cceptance) of implementing the New Jersey stateplanning process as an attempt to construct a base of mutually shared norms and interests between state and local governments in the area of land use planning. The conclusion is that the first round of implementation was instrumental in building norms and consensus-especially in the face of strong resistance to state planning from the policy environment. The main reason for the effectiveness of the Cross-Acceptance process was that it brought local, county and state officials to a forum where they were able to discuss areas of consensus and discord. Copyright 1992 by The Policy Studies Organization.