Looking forward to hosting the 2026 meeting of the Boston/New England Area Working Group in African Political Economy (BWGAPE) on May 8 with Jamie Hintson, @chinemeluokafor.bsky.social & Nic Wicaksono. Please submit your papers and research designs if you're in the region!
We will host a South Asia APSA pre-conference at Harvard on Sept 2.
If you would like to present a paper, serve as a discussant, or only attend the workshop or happy hour, please submit your info by March 15 (extended deadline):
forms.gle/ZDau8Jm86kJt...
Feel free to circulate widely!
Conference Details
Call for Papers: Workshop on Contention Under Repression
We invite scholars in the Greater Boston area to submit proposals for a one-day workshop on 4/17 on collective action, civil society, contentious politics, etc. across global contexts
Details: tinyurl.com/wrkshp417
Submission Deadline: 3/15
And @pratikmahaj.bsky.social will present our related paper on how voters respond to this mobilization on Friday 9/12!
Looking forward to presenting new joint work with @pratikmahaj.bsky.social on how civil society organizations engage in electoral mobilization for political parties at this APSA panel on Saturday, 9/13!
New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
“A dysfunctional authoritarian system is much worse than a dysfunctional democracy” - @dziblatt.bsky.social at the #Harvard Dean Symposia on #democracy.
Watch the discussion w/ Steven Levitsky @feyaadallie.bsky.social & @washingtonpost.com editor David Herszenhorn ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/9F6-R3k...
Please circulate!
@wpmarble
and I are looking for a part-time RA to help with various data tasks. This is a remote-work position that is ideal for recent graduates who are considering applying for a social science PhD. Apply here: forms.gle/EN3JLUiNm8m4...
JOB ALERT: Come work as lab manager / research associate at the Global Diversity Lab at MIT -- a great opportunity for recent undergraduates considering a PhD in political science #development #climate #diversity Recent LM's went to Stanford, Yale, Berkeley
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Abstract: Over the past decade, India has been central to debates on democracy. Many viewed the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) underperformance in the 2024 election as a sign of democratic resilience. This essay argues instead that it signaled further backsliding in the country’s most vulnerable dimension of democracy — its liberal democracy. The election reinforced a troubling status quo for India’s largest religious minority: explicit exclusion from one side of the political spectrum and strategic silence from the other. These dual forces leave Indian Muslims in a political bind, further constraining their prospects for political inclusion.
My article just out in @jodemocracy.bsky.social:
India's New Minority Politics
I question the optimism about India's democracy after the 2024 election by providing a perspective on Muslim inclusion and what it means for India's liberal democracy.
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/ind...
Join us on Friday at Harvard for the Brown-Harvard Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics.
Urbanization and the Rise of the Right in India - @adasgupta.bsky.social and Amreeta Das
Details here: mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/south-...
Congratulations! Very well deserved!
The 3rd Annual Great CGIS Bakeoff was a triumph!
Congratulations to Gabriela Armani for her doubly-winning Brazilian Banoffee, & runner-up Aleksandra Conevska! 🏆
Category winners:
🍪 @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social
🥮 @cerny.bsky.social
🥧 @malpas.bsky.social
☕️ Lucia Mendoza
🏆 @chriskenny.bsky.social
🛵Reminder application deadline in March 3 for MoPED Berlin: our political economy of development workshop June 2024
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please share!
Join us on Friday at Harvard for the Brown-Harvard Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics.
How partisan are the "Village Republics"? How democratization shapes local partisanship in India
Details here: mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/how-pa...
Nominations are open for the APSA Democracy and Autocracy Juan Linz Dissertation Award (and other D&A section awards). Dissertations defended in 2023 or 2024 are eligible! Submissions will be accepted until March 15. Details here: apsanet.org/membership/o...
Urban–rural cleavages are seen as a defining political divide. But does this polarization hold worldwide? My new working paper tests this question using an original dataset of granular, geocoded election returns from 106 countries (polling station-level in 70). (1/8)
Nominations are open for the APSA Democracy and Autocracy Juan Linz Dissertation Award (and other D&A section awards). Dissertations defended in 2023 or 2024 are eligible! Submissions will be accepted until March 15. Details here: apsanet.org/membership/o...
Congrats Didi!
New #GrandTamasha podcast out now: Hilal Ahmed of CSDS-Delhi joins me to discuss his new book, "A Brief History of the Present: Muslims in New India." We discuss the many nuances of Muslim identity in a BJP-dominant polity grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/mus...
Congrats Mathias!! Really excited to read the full book!
🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
A brief summary: 1/n
Paging Dr. @feyaadallie.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce the release of Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe with Cambridge UP 🎉🎉
The book argues that accommodating the displaced population can strengthen states and benefit local economies in the long run.
📚 [Amazon: tinyurl.com/24m2mbkf]
See thread below:
Finally holding my copy of How the Heartland Went Red!
My new book examines how place intersects with race, class, and religion in shaping the rightward turn in the industrial Heartland.
Get your own copy here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb....
Please consider nominating your paper for the Sage Paper Prize for the best paper in Comparative Politics presented at APSA 2023. The deadline is Feb. 1. Submit through this online form: form.jotform.com/233233616925.... Self-nominations are welcome.
***ASREC Graduate Student Workshop***
February 29-March 2, 2024
Chapman University
Orange, CA
An excellent introduction to the economics of religion by Jared Rubin, Jeanet Bentzen, Jean-Paul Carvalho & Avital Livny
Apply here by November 10: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I'll be presenting my work next week as part of the Brown-Harvard-MIT South Asia Seminar. Please join if you're in the area!
Details here: watson.brown.edu/southasia/ev...