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Peer-Reviewed Publications
3. Can Gender Quotas Improve Public Service Provision? Evidence from Indian Local Government (with Alexander Lee) Comparative Political Studies, 58(5), 924-962, 2025
Winner of Best Paper in Urban or Regional Politics -- 2021 APSA
2. Gender Quotas and Upward Political Mobility in India Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 20 (3), 339-368, 2025
1. Gender quotas hurt less privileged groups? Evidence from India (with Alexander Lee). American Journal of Political Science 64 (4): 757-772, 2020
Media Mention: The Hindu
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
1. Personal Experience and Public Support for Internet Shutdowns in Rural India (with Kiran Garimella and Avinash Collis) Proceedings of the Twentieth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2026
Book Project
Who Wins? Electoral Gender Quotas in India
Background Chapter: From Rejection to Mandate: Electoral Gender Quotas in India
Manuscript Workshop scheduled for October 2026. Book outline available on request.
Working Papers
The Limits of Electoral Gender Quotas in Rural Local Bodies (with Gaurav Sood)
Media: VoxDev
Are Women Better Politicians? Discrimination, Gender Quotas, and Electoral Accountability (with Zuheir Desai and Sergio Montero)
Media: VoxDev
First in Line: Agenda Control and Legislative Disruption in India (with Zuheir Desai and Alexander Lee)
Political Exit: The Unintended Effects of Electoral Rules (with Sudhir Singh and Drew Stommes)
The Connected Representative: Party Networks, Communications Infrastructure, and Insurgent Violence (with Aidan Milliff and Drew Stommes)
Skewed Scales of Justice: Labor Disputes in The Indian Supreme Court
Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Battle for Credit (with Emiel Awad and Lawrence Rothenberg)
Works-in-Progress
Give or Take: Legislator Trade-off in India (with Zuheir Desai)
Urban Policing in India (with Resuf Ahmed and Priyadarshi Amar)
The Determinants of Political Participation (with Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed and Jane Mary Sakr)
Policy Writing
4. Are women better politicians? (with Zuheir Desai and Sergio Montero). VoxDev, 2026
3. No representation without reservation: The long-term limits of gender quotas in India (with Gaurav Sood). VoxDev, 2025.
2. Impact of Fourteenth Finance Commission: Karnataka Budget, 2015–16 (with Pranay Kotasthane). Economic & Political Weekly 50 (46-47), 16-20, 2016.
1. Karnataka’s Changing Fiscal Landscape (with Pranay Kotasthane). Economic & Political Weekly 51 (33), 21, 2015.
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