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The Social Mobility Index: What It Measures
Manifesto in research form. Establishes the metric as the party's governing logic.
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Research & Primary Sources
Examine the framework directly. Markdown sources below are synced from the canonical docs repository — drafts are labeled. We are recruiting collaborators to produce rigorous working papers, not filler.
Primary sources
Download, diff, and challenge these files. For the in-browser summary of NNP governance, see also constitution overview and four institutions.
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Neocracy — definition
One-page canonical model: rule-level redesign, examination, contracts, SMI.
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Public evidence statistics
Mobility and political-finance figures with sources and retired stats listed.
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Canon & terminology
Source-of-truth chain, glossary, and deprecation rules for all public copy.
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Beyond Morality: Governance as Institutional Engineering (WP 0.2)
Niti Shakha working paper — research program, formal vocabulary, scaling limits of norm-based governance, political lemons.
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Beyond Morality: Governance as Mechanism Design
Niti Shakha working draft — virtue vs mechanism design (review before citing).
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NNP party constitution
Full working specification — research draft, not legal advice or ECI filing.
Open research problems
We are in the research phase. These are concrete problems where we need collaborators — especially students and faculty at tier-1 universities.
SMI methodology & audit protocol
Define a Social Mobility Index that is measurable, election-year locked, and independently auditable.
Examination validity & bias resistance
Design evidence that Pravesh Parishad scores predict governance capability without coaching capture.
Performance contracts under Indian law
Map binding manifesto metrics, recall, and anti-defection constraints for elected officials.
Systematic review — selection mechanisms
Catalog empirical evidence linking candidate-selection rules to governance outcomes.
Planned working papers
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The Pravesh Parishad Examination: Testing for Capability
Documents the examination design, merit list, and public cutoff.
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Mobility Deserts: Intergenerational Outcomes by District
Data visualisation essay. Makes the problem geographically specific.
Month 2 draft “Beyond Morality” is available above as a labeled working paper.
Social Mobility Index dashboard
District-level mobility data — interactive dashboard in development.