Professor Yogendra Yadav is an Indian social scientist

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. He was appointed as a member of the NAC for the implementation of the RTÉ act in 2010. Yogendra Yadav is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

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 (CSDS), Delhi since 2004.

Early life

Yogendra Yadav was educated in Sriganganar (BA, Rajasthan University), Delhi (MA, JNU) and Chandigarh (M Phil, Panjab University).

Career

Yogendra Yadav taught at Panjab University Chandigarh (1985–1993) before joining the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS).

His areas of interests include democratic theory, election studies, survey research, political theory, modern Indian political thought and Indian socialism. He has co-authored State of Democracy in South Asia (OUP, 2008) and co-edited (with Sandeep Shastri and K C Suri) Electoral Politics in Indian States (OUP, 2009)

He is the founder convener (1995- 2002) and founder Director (1997-2003)of Lokniti - a Programme for Comparative Democracy at CSDS.

He has been a psephologist and political commentator on a number of television channels in India including Doordarshan, NDTV and CNN-IBN.

He is a member of the Governing Council of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).

He is a member of the Governing Board of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

He is a nominated members in the expert committee of National Translation Mission

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He is an Honorary Fellow, Indian Institute of Political Economy, Pune (since 2004).

He was one of the two Chief Advisors in Political Science for the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) who suprevised the writing of the new textbooks for Political Science for class IX, X, XI and XII.

He was also a member of the Expert Group appointed by the Government of India in 2007 to examine the structure and functioning of an Equal Opportunity Commission.

In 2008 Professor Yadav was awarded the Malcom Adishesiah Award for contribution to development studies.

In 2009 the International Political Science Association honoured Professor Yogendra Yadav with the first Global South Solidarity Award "in recognition of outstanding work on the politics of the developing world".

Projects completed/ undertaken

Principal investigator or Director or Member of the core team of the following national surveys of
political opinions, attitudes and behaviour:

1. National Election Study 2009: post poll
2. National Election Study, 2004: post poll
3. National Election Study, 1999: post poll
4. National Election Study, 1998: pre and post poll
5. National Election Study, 1996: pre, mid, exit and post poll

Principal Investigator or Director or member of the core design and interpretation team of the
following state-wide surveys of political opinions, attitudes and behaviour:

1. Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Study 1996: Exit poll
2. Punjab Assembly Election Study 1997: Exit poll
3. Delhi Assembly Election Study 1998: pre-poll
4. Rajasthan Assembly Election Study 1998: Exit Poll
5. Delhi Assembly Election Study 1998: Exit Poll
6. Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Study 1998: Exit Poll
7. Mizoram Assembly Election Study 1998: Exit Poll
8. Bihar Assembly Election Study 2000: post-poll
9. Haryana Assembly Election Study 2000: post-poll
10. Orissa Assembly Election Study 2000: post-poll
11. West Bengal Assembly Election Study 2001: post-poll
12. Assam Assembly Election Study 2001: post-poll
13. Tamil Nadu Assembly Election Study 2001: post-poll
14. Kerala Assembly Election Study 2001: post-poll
15. Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Study 2000: pre-poll
16. Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Study 2002: post-poll
17. Uttaranchal Assembly Election Study 2002: post-poll
18. Manipur Assembly Election Study 2002: post-poll
19. Punjab Assembly Election Study 2002: post-poll
20. Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Election Study 2002: post-poll
21. Gujarat Assembly Election Study 2002: pre-poll
22. Gujarat Assembly Election Study 2002: post-poll
23. Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election Study 2003: pre-poll
24. Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election Study 2003: post-poll
25. Delhi Assembly Election Study 2003: pre-poll
26. Delhi Assembly Election Study 2003: mid-poll
27. Delhi Assembly Election Study 2003: post-poll
28. Rajasthan Assembly Election Study 2003: post-poll
29. Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Study 2003: post-poll
30. Chhattisgarh Assembly Election Study 2003: post-poll
31. Mizoram Assembly Election Study 2003: post-poll
32. Maharashtra Assembly Election Study 2004: post-poll
33. Bihar Assembly Election Study February 2005: post-poll
34. Jharkhand Assembly Election Study 2005: post-poll
35. Haryana Assembly Election Study 2005: post-poll
36. Bihar Assembly Election Study October 2005: post-poll
37. Assam Assembly Election Study 2006: post-poll
38. Kerala Assembly Election Study 2006: pre-poll
39. Kerala Assembly Election Study 2006: post-poll
40. West Bengal Assembly Election Study 2006: pre-poll
41. West Bengal Assembly Election Study 2006: post-poll
42. Tamil Nadu Assembly Election Study 2006: pre-poll
43. Tamil Nadu Assembly Election Study 2006: post-poll
44. Punjab Assembly Election Study 2007: pre-poll
45. Punjab Assembly Election Study 2007: post-poll
46. Uttarakhand Assembly Election Study 2007: pre-poll
47. Uttarakhand Assembly Election Study 2007: post-poll
48. Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Study 2007: pre-poll
49. Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Study 2007: post-poll
50. Gujarat Assembly Election Study 2007: pre-poll
51. Gujarat Assembly Election Study 2007: post-poll
52. Karnataka Assembly Election Study 2008: pre-poll
53. Karnataka Assembly Election Study 2008: post-poll
54. Rajasthan Assembly Election Study 2008: post-poll
55. Delhi Assembly Election Study 2008: post-poll
56. Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Study 2008: post-poll
57. Mizoram Assembly Election Study 2008: post-poll
58. Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Election Study 2008: post-poll

Awards

In 2008 Professor Yadav was awarded the Malcom Adishesiah Award for contribution to development studies. In 2009 the International Political Science Association honoured Professor Yogendra Yadav with the first Global South Solidarity Award "in recognition of outstanding work on the politics of the developing world".

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