Job Description
Priyavadan Patel has recently retired as Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, the M. S. University of Baroda. Earlier he worked at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat. As the Gujarat State Coordinator of Lokniti Network of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, he conducted pre, mid, exit and post poll surveys of the Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha elections in Gujarat since 1995-2008. He has written extensively on elections and issues of Indian Politics and Public Administration.