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Business, Voters, and Distributive Politics in Developing Democracies

Register for the event: https://bit.ly/32yhBGS Gautam Nair, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will explore the impact of business on developing democracies and inequality. Gautam Nair is a a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he is a faculty affiliate of the Ash Center for […]

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Discrimination and Defiant Pride: How the Demand for Dignity Creates Slack for Poor Governance

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Fri, Oct 23, 2020 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm

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Webinar

Register for the event: https://bit.ly/3iGc1YK Incoming Assistant Professor of Government Mashail Malik will discuss how social identities shape and are shaped by political life. Mashail Malik studies how social identities – such as ethnicity and class – both shape and are shaped by political life. Currently a Gerald J. Lieberman Fellow, a Ric Weiland Graduate […]

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De Facto Suffrage: A Field Experiment to Improve Women’s Turnout in Pakistan’s General Elections

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Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 02:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

JOINT SEMINAR ON SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS SERIES Sarah Khan, Postgraduate Associate, Yale MacMillan Center Sarah Khan is a postgraduate associate at the Yale MacMillan Center. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender and comparative politics, with a regional specialization in South Asia. In her work, she explores gender gaps in political preferences, and the barriers […]

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Crisis and Credibility: The Politics of Ideas in India and Developing Democracies

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Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 02:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S450

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S450
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA

JOINT SEMINAR ON SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS SERIES Dr. Bilal A. Baloch is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics and a Lecturer and Regional Director in South Asia, Middle East and North Africa at The Joseph H. Lauder Institute, Wharton School of Business, University […]

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Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Series: Is Nationalism a Democratic Resource? Evidence from India and Malaysia

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Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 02:00pm

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Watson Institute at Brown University

ADDRESS
Watson Institute at Brown University
111 Thayer Street
Providence, RI

As part of the Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics series, Dr. Maya Tudor will use evidence from India and Malaysia to discuss the origins of stable, democratic and effective states across the developing world.

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Enfranchising Your Own? Experimental Evidence on Bureaucrat Diversity and Election Bias

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Fri, Apr 7, 2017 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Yusuf Neggers, Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University Simon Chauchard, Assistant Professor of Government Department, Dartmouth College Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Director of the Brown-India Initiative Read the seminar paper. Cosponsored with the Center for Contemporary South Asia at the […]

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The Lessons Private Schools Teach: Using a Field Experiment to Understand the Effects of Private Schools on Political Behavior

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Fri, Mar 10, 2017 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

VENUE
CGIS Knafel, K262
Harvard University

ADDRESS
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Emmerich Davies Escobar, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard University Graduate School of Education  Bryce Millett Steinberg, Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Brown University Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Director of the Brown-India Initiative Cosponsored with the Center for Contemporary […]

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Armed Politics: Violence, Order, and the State in Southern Asia

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Fri, Dec 9, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

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MIT Lucian Pye Conference Room

ADDRESS
MIT
Lucian Pye Conference Room, E40-495
1 Amherst Street
Cambridge, MA

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Paul Staniland, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago Paul Staniland is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he codirects the Program on International Security Policy. He is a cofounder of the Program on Political Violence. His research focuses on political violence, international security, […]

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Who Influences Voters in Rural India? An Experimental Approach

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Fri, Nov 18, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Simon Chauchard, Assistant Professor of Government Department, Dartmouth College Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Director of the Brown-India Initiative Cosponsored with the Center for Contemporary South Asia at the Wat­son Insti­tute at Brown Uni­ver­sity, the Weath­er­head Cen­ter for Inter­na­tional Affairs, and the MIT Cen­ter […]

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New Potions in Old Bottles: Explaining the Differential Control of Smallpox in 19th Century Canton and Calcutta

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Fri, Oct 14, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

VENUE
CGIS Knafel, K354
Harvard University

ADDRESS
1737 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Brown University Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Director of the Brown-India Initiative Cosponsored with the Center for Contemporary South Asia at the Wat­son Insti­tute at Brown Uni­ver­sity, the Weath­er­head Cen­ter for […]

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Neighborhood Sanitation and Infant Mortality (Livestream)

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Fri, Feb 26, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Dean Spears, Rice Institute Dean Spears is the Executive Director of the RICE Institute. Dean’s research focuses on children’s health and human capital, which these days often means height, sanitation, and social forces in Indian households and villages. He has also done research about population issues in social welfare […]

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East India Company Revisited

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Fri, Apr 22, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Atul KohIi, David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University Cosponsored with Brown University, MIT, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Reception to follow.

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