Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Argument
- 3 Political Integration: Empirical Conception and Method of Analysis
- 4 Ratnagiri District: Factional Alignments in Conditions of Poverty
- 5 Poona District: The Politics of Sugar
- 6 Aurangabad District: State versus District Leaders
- 7 Akola District: Factional Alignments in Conditions of Relative Plenty (The Politics of Cotton)
- 8 All Districts: Some Comparisons
- 9 Conclusion
- APPENDICES
- 1 A Note on Methodology
- 2 District-wise and All-District Tables Showing Absolute Group Means of Variables Used In Discriminant Analysis
- 3 District-wise and All-District Tables Showing Within-Group Correlations Computed in Discriminant Analysis and Identifying Variables Used According to Variable Cluster
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - A Note on Methodology
from APPENDICES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Argument
- 3 Political Integration: Empirical Conception and Method of Analysis
- 4 Ratnagiri District: Factional Alignments in Conditions of Poverty
- 5 Poona District: The Politics of Sugar
- 6 Aurangabad District: State versus District Leaders
- 7 Akola District: Factional Alignments in Conditions of Relative Plenty (The Politics of Cotton)
- 8 All Districts: Some Comparisons
- 9 Conclusion
- APPENDICES
- 1 A Note on Methodology
- 2 District-wise and All-District Tables Showing Absolute Group Means of Variables Used In Discriminant Analysis
- 3 District-wise and All-District Tables Showing Within-Group Correlations Computed in Discriminant Analysis and Identifying Variables Used According to Variable Cluster
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I shall set forth in this section the essential steps followed in processing the data collected. The two basic stages involved were (1) reducing the data to manageable proportions, and (2) analyzing them.
As I have indicated earlier, the information on which the foregoing analysis is based was gathered through a uniformly structured interview administered to popularly elected district councillors and from published official sources. References to the latter will be found throughout this work – in the text and in the tables appended to the preceding chapters. The interview schedule used will be found immediately following this Note). The material gathered through this interview and from other sources was supplemented by much background information obtained through unstructured interviews with respondents and others (journalists or civil servants, for example) regarding the intricate details of local politics.
Some comments are in order now regarding the nature of the interview schedule in relation to the study as defined herein. An examination of this schedule will reveal a very lengthy document indeed, which yielded several volumes of data from the districts covered in the study. The number of variables extracted from this material alone totalled two hundred and eighty-five. In addition I used forty-two environmental measures, compiled from official (printed or mimeographed) sources. (See Table A below, pp. 209–10.) It is therefore necessary to explain the procedure by which I ultimately selected only forty-seven variables for testing by the principal analytical method used.
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- The Dynamics of Indian Political FactionsA Study of District Councils in the State of Maharashtra, pp. 190 - 219Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1972