One of the major developments in political science in the past decade has been the rise of
experiments and surveys on political elites. Yet, the increase in the number of elite studies …

Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African
politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competitive legislative and presidential …

Slum settlements have received significant attention for their vulnerabilities to the spread of
Covid-19. To mitigate risks of transmission, and alleviate economic distress associated with …

Caste is as an under-recognized marker of environmental inequalities in urban India, what
this article names as “environmental unfreedoms” for their fundamentally humanity-and …

Despite becoming a global economic force, why does India win so few Olympic medals and
have so many people living in poverty? Why have opportunities not become available more …

Urban India is characterised by a high degree of intra-city spatial inequality in the availability
of public services like piped water and sewerage. We unpack the political channels that link …

Research on democracy has shed much light on two kinds of democratic politics: patterns of
voting and patterns of associational or movement politics. But there is growing recognition …

Forced-choice conjoint experiments have become a standard component of the
experimental toolbox in political science and sociology. Yet the literature has largely …

Projections suggest that most of the global growth in population in the next few decades will
be in urban centres in Asia and Africa. Most of these additional urban residents will be …

Are slum dwellers more involved in clientelistic arrangements than other (urban poor)
voters? While poverty is a key predictor of clientelism, some urban poor voters are more …