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Current Projects / Working Papers

Political Parenthood

This project aims to open the black box of voter evaluation of female candidates by exploring the nuances of parenthood and politics in the contemporary United States. Support for women candidates is based on their ability to show a fine balance between agentic and communal traits. Voters impose arduous expectations on the candidates to be confident but not power-seeking, and to be professionally successful but also a good mother. Based on the theoretical directions offered by role congruity theory, Politicized Motherhood and the concept of ‘double-bind’, I aim to test hypotheses on gender difference and partisanship.

Karnataka Crime Victimisation Survey 2017

Aithala, V., Krishnaswamy, S., Venugopalan, A.

The objectives of Karnataka Crime Victimisation Survey (KCVS)
are to:

• understand the rates of crime victimisation along various socio-economic categories,

• estimate the rate of under-reporting of crimes in the official crime data released by the NCRB,

• understand who the victims are, the spread of crime, the circumstances in which victimisation takes place,and

• understand why victims of crime engage or disengage with the criminal justice system.

As a pan-region crime victimisation survey, KCVS provides a different basis for the understanding of crime in society. It provides supplementary data on the level of crime within the state to support the statistics published annually by local police. The focus is on the views of the public regarding their access to, and effectiveness of the police service.