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Welcome! I am an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Merced. I direct a lab on the Political Economy of Agriculture and Rural Societies (PEARS) and am a faculty affiliate at IGCC and CAPE. I received my PhD in political science from Harvard University and have been a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. My research is in comparative politics, political economy, and political-economic history/development. I am an expert on India, though I also work comparatively. Most of my research is on technology, democracy, and bureaucracy.
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Office: COB2 (building), 310 (office)
Mail: University of California, Merced
School of Social Science, Humanities, and Arts
5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343, USA
Email: adasgupta3 [at] ucmerced.edu
Phone: +1 (240) 893 0993
What's new/recent (updated October 2024):
Some work on bureaucrat assignments in India conditionally (conditionally accepted at AJPS)
An article on the economic/technological origins of the rural-urban divide (APSR 2024)
A recently published 'think piece' chapter on the role of natural experiments in HPE
Some work on inference with image data using computer vision (conditionally accepted at APSR)
An article on some of the PEARS lab's work using computer vision
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