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This is a sub-national dataset containing data from Indian provinces, combining political party performance in Indian state elections, public good delivery and economic indicators.

After liberalization, business environment changed radically in India. Organizations faced competition and tried to improve their performance. Many organizations tried to change their business processes as well as organizational structure. Information technology played a key role in transforming organizations. Today organizations have become flat but diverse and complex. The objective of the paper is to analyze implications of personality characteristics of employees for designing an appropriate organizational structure for business organizations in India. The paper is based on review of previous research studies in the last decades. Success of any organizational structure depends upon profile of employees. Most organizations expect employees to adjust to their organizational structure. Previous studies on Five Factor Model as well as organizational structure have been reviewed and their implications for designing organizational structure in Indian context have been discussed.

Organizations are fundamentally different from the hierarchical, bureaucratic structures that underlie more traditional organizational theory and research. The paper deals with the fact that culture is omnipotent in shaping the structure of the organisation and structure along with culture is intricately related with the way innovation is managed or implemented in any organisation. This paper is basically a extensive review of papers relating to organisational structure, culture and innovation right from the aspect of how culture shapes structure to how innovation is linked and shaped by both organisational structure and culture. Models by different researchers depicting the relationship between the various aspects of structure culture and innovation are discussed for better understanding.

AbstractHow do parties in multiethnic societies shape voter attitudes toward female candidates? We address this question, focusing on parties with ideologies that contain ethnonationalist gender norms—patriarchal norms applied to women from an ethnonationalist party's core ethnic constituency. We argue that, while these norms appeal to an ethnonationalist party's base, they also provide informational cues to the party's "non‐core" voters that undermine their support for the party's "core" female candidates. Evidence from an original conjoint survey experiment in the Indian state of Bihar supports our argument; upper‐caste female candidates suffer a support penalty when they are affiliated with the national ruling party, whose ideology prescribes ethnonationalist gender norms targeting its core Hindu upper‐caste constituency. This penalty, we show, is driven by the party's non‐core voters. Our results, which we further bolster using real‐world electoral data, illuminate when and how ethnonationalist gender norms disadvantage elite female candidates.

What factors influence women's political success in ethnically divided societies? Using an original survey experiment in the Indian state of Bihar, supplemented with qualitative interviews, we explore the impact of two factors—intersecting gender and caste identity, and the interaction of campaign appeal with voter experiences of caste discrimination—on women candidates' success in state-level elections. We find, first, that women voters prefer women candidates, and that Scheduled Caste and Muslim voters also prefer candidates from their in-groups. At the same time, we identify evidence of intersectional effects, namely, that Muslim women candidates suffer from a disadvantage vis-a-vis women candidates from other backgrounds. We also show that women voters prefer candidates who offer security, especially when the candidates are women. Finally, we demonstrate that personal experience with caste discrimination increases support for women candidates. These results indicate that voters see women leaders as well-placed to ameliorate their security vulnerabilities.

The category of species has remained largely understudied in mainstream gender scholarship. This edition of the Yearbook of Women's History attempts to show how gender history can be enriched through the study of animals. It highlights that the inclusion of nonhuman animals in historical work has the potential to revolutionize the ways we think about gender history. This volume is expansive in more than one way. First, it is global and transhistorical in its outlook, bringing together perspectives from the Global North and the Global South, and moving from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. Even more importantly for its purposes, a range of animals appear in the contributions: from the smallest insects to great apes, and from 'cute' kittens to riot dogs and lions. The articles collected here reflect the variety of the animal kingdom and of the creative approaches enabled by animal history