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Political scientists in India study electoral behaviour, constitutional structures, international relations, comparative politics, and public policy through systematic empirical and normative methods. The field's institutional anchors are JNU's Centre for Political Studies (CPS), CSDS-Lokniti's National Election Study (NES) waves, Ashoka University's Trivedi Centre for Political Data (TCPD), and think tanks such as ORF, Carnegie India, and Brookings India. Day-to-day work spans survey-instrument design for Election Commission voter-behaviour studies, peer-reviewed publications in journals like Studies in Indian Politics (SAGE-CSDS), Economic and Political Weekly, India Review, and Asian Survey, policy briefs to MEA, MHA, and NITI Aayog, op-eds in The Hindu and Indian Express, and TV panels on NDTV and CNN News18 during election cycles. Entry is via M.A. Political Science (JNU, Hyderabad Central, Ashoka) leading to a Ph.D.; alternatively, a CSDS-Lokniti research fellowship bridges academic and applied polling work.