Constructing a Majority: A Micro-Level Study of Voting Patterns in Indian Elections

JOINT SEMINAR ON SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS SERIES

Francesca R. Jensenius, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

Chair: Emmerich Davies, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Francesca Jensenius specializes in comparative politics, comparative political economy, and research methods, with a regional focus on South Asia and Latin America. Her main research interest is how institutional design and electoral dynamics affect different types of inequality. In the book Social Justice through Inclusion: The Consequences of Electoral Quotas in India (OUP 2017), she explored long-term effects of electoral quotas for the Scheduled Castes in India. In current projects she focus on the relationship between political institutions, electoral dynamics, and local-level development patterns in India, as well as on a how legal regimes and legal change across the world differentially affect women and other marginalized communities.