Journal Articles

• "Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India's Small Town Councils" (with Shikhar Singh and Tariq Thachil). Forthcoming at the American Political Science Review.

• "Rethinking the Study of Electoral Politics in the Developing World: Reflections on the Indian Case" (with Jennifer Bussell, Simon Chauchard, Francesca Jensenius, Gareth Nellis, Mark Schneider, Neelanjan Sircar, Pavithra Suryanarayan, Tariq Thachil, Milan Vaishnav, Rahul Verma, and Adam Ziegfeld). Perspectives on Politics 20(1): 250-64, 2022.

• "How does COVID-19 Affect Urban Slums? Evidence from Settlement Leaders in India" (with Tariq Thachil). World Development 140: 1-11, 2021.

• "The Geography of Citizenship Practice: How the Poor Engage the State in Rural and Urban India" (with Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner). Perspectives on Politics 18(4): 1118-34, 2020.

• "Cultivating Clients: Reputation, Responsiveness, and Ethnic Indifference in India's Slums" (with Tariq Thachil). American Journal of Political Science 64(3): 471-87, 2020.

  • • AJPS Best Article Award, 2021

    • Political Ties Award, Political Networks Section, APSA

    • Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award, Comparative Democratization Section, APSA

• "How Electoral Quotas Influence Political Competition: Evidence from Municipal, State, and National Elections in India" (with Adam Ziegfeld). Journal of Politics 82(1): 397-401, 2020.

• "How Clients Select Brokers: Competition and Choice in India's Slums" (with Tariq Thachil). American Political Science Review 112(4): 775-791, 2018.

  • • Heinz I. Eulau Award for best article published in the APSR in 2018

• "State, Society, and Informality in Cities of the Global South" (with Adrienne LeBas, Alison Post, and Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro). Studies in Comparative International Development 53(3): 261-280, 2018.

• "Informal Archives: Historical Narratives and the Preservation of Paper in India's Urban Slums." Studies in Comparative International Development 53(3): 343-364, 2018.

• "Neighborhood Associations and the Urban Poor: India's Slum Development Committees." World Development 96(C): 119-135, 2017.

• "Clients and Communities: The Political Economy of Party Network Organization and Development in India's Urban Slums." World Politics 68(1): 111-48, 2016.

• "India's Urban Constituencies Revisited." Contemporary South Asia 23(2): 136-150, 2015.

Other Writing

• "Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India's Cities" (with Tanu Kumar). Governance and Local Development Institute Working Paper 63, 2023.

• "Urban Politics" (with Bhanu Joshi and Shahana Sheikh). Forthcoming in the Cambridge Companion to Indian Politics and Society (edited by Manali Desai and Indrajit Roy).

• Review of Sanjoy Chakravorty and Neelanjan Sircar's (editors) Colossus in the Book Review Literary Trust, March 2022.

• "How did Slums Survive the Lockdown?" (with Tariq Thachil). Hindustan Times, December 14, 2020.

• "Citizen-State Relations: Countryside and City" (with Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner). Ideas for India, August 24, 2020.

• "The Political Geography of Public Service Provision in India's Urban Slums."  Layered Metropolis Series, Social Science Research Council, June 2020.

• "COVID-19 and Community Leadership in India's Slum Settlements." The Hindu Business Line, May 19, 2020.

• "Millions of People in India's Slums Can't Keep Each Other at a Distance During Pandemic Lockdown." Washington Post, Monkey Cage, April 13, 2020.

• "India's Urban and Rural Poor Expect Different Things from their Local Governments, and Why it Matters" (with Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner). The Print, March 19, 2020.

• Review of Jennifer Bussell's Clients and Constituents (Oxford University Press, 2019), in India Ink, Georgetown University, July 2019.