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Are local officials sufficiently knowledgeable about how to execute their expanded portfolio of responsibilities under decentralization? In a new American Political Science Review, Shikhar Singh, Tariq Thachil, & I study this question in 🇮🇳's small towns. Open-access article: tinyurl.com/bdd4hbf3 🧵

Just published on APSR First View: "Misinformation and Support for Vigilantism: An Experiment in India and Pakistan" by Sumitra Badrinathan, Simon Chauchard, and Niloufer Siddiqui. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

deadline for submissions to our annual conference on urban politics in the global south is today! if you presented a relevant paper at APSA, send it along! globalsouthurbanpols.com

📢Have you read a great political science book published in 2023? Nominate it for the Political Studies Association MacKenzie Book Prize. Self-nominations welcome. Deadline: September 20th. As jury Chair, I encourage all books, including those on understudied topics & regions. Info below.📚

Pre-order Available! "Decentralization, Local Governance, and Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa," Edited by Kristen Kao & Ellen M Lust. This volume brings together cutting-edge research from Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia. University of Michigan Press 🔗bit.ly/47U1djZ

Thanks to @GLD_GothenburgGreat and Ellen M Lust for featuring my and @w_k_taylor's books on the Governance Uncovered podcast! Check it out! soundcloud.com/gldresearch

Check this out! Two brilliant books that are must reads, by @w_k_taylor and Janice Gallagher!!

A true pleasure, as always, to talks with the amazing Ellen M Lust about this new work on the comparative politics of claim-making with @w_k_taylor and Janice Gallagher! Have a listen if you can!

My 2nd American Political Science Review baby has a citation - GOYAL, T., & SELLS, C. (2024). Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil. American Political Science Review, 118(4), 1840–1855. doi:10.1017/S0003055423001168

Thrilled to announce the release of Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe today with Cambridge University Press - Politics! 🎉🎉🎉 📚[Amazon link: tinyurl.com/24m2mbkf] Every year, millions are displaced by war, repression, disasters, and climate change. My book shows that

💡Learn how emotional appeals & strategic mobilization improve service delivery in resource-strained bureaucracies in our latest policy brief: Mind the Gap: Citizen-Led Efforts to Build Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Rural #India. Read it here: bit.ly/4feVFm1

An amazing paper (and body of work) by an amazing group of scholars.

As we step into a new year, we are excited to welcome a new group of GLD Fellows! A heartfelt welcome to our 12 new program fellows joining us in 2025. Here’s to a year filled with collaboration and shared experiences 🎉

Very excited to join this excellent crowd!

Thrilled to share my new paper, “Calibrating Autonomy,” co-authored with Francis Fukuyama, now in print at Governance Journal. This research journey started when I read his seminal piece "What is Governance?" as a grad student. I loved this graph—and immediately envisioned testing his

The global edition of my new book, Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in Multi-Level Democracy published by Cambridge University Press and originally supported by The Leverhulme Trust is now out in the world. This is a book that I've been working on for the best part of the last decade

so well deserved Tariq Thachil and Adam Auerbach!

Wonderful to have our (Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Rahul Karnamadakala Sharma, and my) first working paper on Relational State Capacity out in the world, courtesy of SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University! snfagora.jhu.edu/publication/re… We look forward to comments/thoughts/reactions! 1/2

Our paper, "Policing in Patriarchy," was just awarded the 2025 APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award. It's been a joy to work on this (for years now) with Akshay Mangla｜अक्षय मंगला and Sandip Sukhtankar! psa.ac.uk/psa/news/%E2%8…

New article out w/ Tanu Kumar on patchwork formalization, private land developers, and public service provision at the edges of India's cities. ⬇️ Journal of Development Studies (JDS)