How can housing subsidies change the trajectory of beneficiaries’ lives?
CEGA faculty affiliate @tanukumar.com’s new book explores how subsidized home ownership in India shapes beneficiaries’ economic, social, and political behavior.
Learn more: go.cega.org/buildingsocialmobility
Cover of the book 'Building Social Mobility: How Subsidized Homeownership Creates Wealth, Dignity, and Voice in India,' part of the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series. The illustration features a detailed cross-section of an apartment building with various people engaged in daily activities.
"... shows how a different form of public policy-subsidized home ownership-can transform poor people's lives by bolstering not just wealth but also agency and civic participation."
'Building Social Mobility' by @tanukumar.com.
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The new paper from Adam Auerbach & @tanukumar.com, challenges the conventional understanding of urban peripheries as neglected zones & demonstrates them as crucial sites of negotiation, innovation & contestation. Indeed, future of urban India can't be shaped just in city centres but at their edges.
To what extent do we think he’s still using the same strategy…???
Are primaries and general elections different, and primaries in places where the general will be competitive?
Sure many academic books are padded articles but also
Really grateful to be receiving McCourt's Tech & Public Policy grant---with @tanukumar.com and @gabikw.bsky.social---to study how citizen-generated information influences civic action for governance in India! Other fantastic projects funded here:
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Thanks Thiago!
Thanks Anjali!
Thanks Stuart!
I'll be starting at the World Bank as a Governance Specialist in the Public Institutions and Data Analytics Unit in May. Excited to work with a great team on important work, and to be back in my hometown is a dream. Thanks to everyone at CGU for all you've taught me.
Thank you :)
My book, Building Social Mobility is available for preorder! shorturl.at/jlgQv
Hello! I work in development, studying governance from the perspective of local officials and citizen interactions. Focus on India. Thanks for highlighting all of this cool work!
Screencap showing the jump from Oct 4 to 15
In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
Statement by President Jimmy Carter included on the Voyager Golden Record: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/voyager-spacecraft-statement-the-president
"We are attempting to survive our time, so we may live into yours."
Tweet from Trump that says: “Really too bad that AOC lost the Battle for the Leadership Seat in the Democrat Party. She should keep trying. Someday, she will be successful!”
You know it’s bad when even Trump is pity posting through it 💀
GLD Policy Brief No.26: "Mind the Gap: Citizen-led Efforts to Build Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Rural India."
How can citizens drive accountability in resource-strained bureaucracies? 🌍 GLD Policy Brief No.26 explores how community efforts, empathy, and mobilization improve service delivery in rural India. Read the brief to learn more! bit.ly/4feVFm1
By Gabi Kruks-Wisner, @tanukumar.com, Jessica Mayberry.
we'd really be able to boost our leverage of franklin pierce and longfellow
i bet uc berkeley goes way down once school size is accounted for
Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets.
Interstellar
Michael Kaine
Policy brief on my work with Gabi Kruks-Wisner and Video Volunteers on how citizens can demand responsiveness from bureaucrats who are overburdened and not formally accountable to them:
gld.gu.se/en/publicati...
🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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Just watched ucla wbb CRUSH South Carolina. Insane!!
You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇.
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