Research and Writings
Research and Writings
“Comparing Advantages in India’s Computer Hardware and Software Sectors,” with Rehana Mohammed, Studies in Comparative International Development, 2025.
"Experts in Estrangement: India's Public Health Agencies and the COVID-19 Pandemic," with Rehana Mohammed and Naman Shah, Indian Politics & Policy, 2024.
The Troubling State of India’s Democracy, an edited volume with Larry Diamond and Sumit Ganguly, University of Michigan Press, 2024.
“Evidence of Turmeric Adulteration with Lead Chromate across South Asia,” with Jenna Forsyth, Emily Nash, Manyu Angrish, and Steve Luby, Science of the Total Environment, vol. 949, 2024: 175003.
“Food Safety Policy Enforcement and Associated Actions Reduce Turmeric Lead Chromate Adulteration Across Bangladesh,” with Jenna Forsyth, Musa Baker, Syeda Nurunnahar, Shaiful Islam, M. Saiful Silam, Tauhidul Islam, Erica Plambeck, Peter Winch, Stephen Luby, and Mahbubur Rahman, Environmental Research, vol. 232, 2023: 116328.
“The Global Survey of Public Servants: Evidence from 1,300,000 Public Servants in 1,300 Government Institutions in 23 Countries,” with Christian Schuster, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Daniel Rogger, Francis Fukuyama, Zahid Hasnain, Jan Meyer-Sahling, Katherine Bersch, and Kerenssa Kay, Public Administration Review, 2023: 1-12.
"Collective Abdication: Why Some Indian Government Universities Start with Autonomy," submitted. [Version is here.]
“Polycentric Versus State-Led Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in The Routledge Handbook of International Relations in South Asia, Šumit Ganguly and Frank O’Donnell (eds.), 2022.
The COVID-19 Crisis in South Asia: Coping with the Pandemic, an edited volume with Sumit Ganguly, 2022.
In Need of a Big Bang: Toward a Merit-Based System for Government-Sponsored Research in India," in Drivers of Innovation: Entrepreneurship, Education, and Finance in Asia, Yong Suk Lee and Fei Yan (eds.), Stanford Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2022. [Older version is here].
"The Bribery Double Standard: Leveraging the Foreign Domestic Divide," with Anna Mance, Stanford Law Review ,2022.
"Instructional Interventions for Improving COVID-19 Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors: Evidence from a Large-Scale RCT in India," with Prashant Loyalka, Robert Fairlie, Ashutosh Bhuradia, Manyu Angrish, Jason Lin, Amar Karoshi, Sara Yen, Jamsheed Mistri, and Vafa Bayat, Social Science and Medicine 276, 2021. [1st author, shared with Prashant Loyalka.] Summary is here: https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-led-study-finds-advantage-more-scientific-instruction-improve-compliance-covid-19.
"From Produce and Protect to Promoting Private Industry: The Indian State’s Role in Creating a Domestic Software Industry," in Shifting Gears in Innovation Policy: Strategies from Asia, Yong Suk Lee, Takeo Hoshi, and Gi-Wook Shin (eds.), Stanford Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and Brookings Institution Press, 2020. [Older version is here].
“Responding to COVID-19 through Surveys of Public Servants,” with Christian Schuster, Lauren Weitzman, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Jan Meyer-Sahling, Katherine Bersch, Francis Fukuyama, Patricia Paskov, Daniel Rogger, and Kerenssa Kay, Public Administration Review, 80(5): 792-796, 2020.
“A Friendly Neighborhood Hindu: Tempering Populist Rhetoric for the Online Brand of Narendra Modi,” with Joyojeet Pal and Tanya Madhani, Conference for eDemocracy and Open Government - Asia, Yokohama, Japan, 2018. [Peer-reviewed, selective conference.] Article covered in The Guardian (Dec. 17, 2018).
States in the Developing World, Edited by Miguel Angel Centeno, Atul Kohli, and Deborah Yashar, with Dinsha Mistree, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
“Party-Directed Corruption in the Developing World,” Comparative Politics, 47(3): 354-374, 2015.
“Globalization, Migration, and New Challenges to Governance,” with Nazli Choucri, Current History, 108(717): 173-79, 2009.
Mapping Sustainability, Edited with Nazli Choucri, Toufic Mezher, Farnaz Haghesta, Wallace Baker, and Carlos Ortiz, Springer Press, 2007.
“Electronic Governance: Salience, Trends, and Challenges,” Mapping Sustainability, Springer Press, 2007.
“Globalization and International Trade – Insights from Graph Theory,” with Behram Mistree, Mapping Sustainability, Springer Press, 2007.
“Global Agenda! Version 1.0,” with Christi Electris, Mapping Sustainability, Springer Press, 2007.
“The House of Security: Stakeholder Perceptions of Security Assessment and Performance,” with Stuart Madnick, Wee Horng Ang, Yang Lee, Michael Siegel, Diane Strong, and Richard Wang, FSTC Innovator: The Journal for Financial Services Technology Leaders, 1(1): 19-24, 2007. [Peer-reviewed.]
“Using System Dynamics to Model and Better Understand State Stability,” with Nazli Choucri, Daniel Goldsmith, Stuart Madnick, Bradley Morrison, Michael Siegel, Proceedings of the International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, 2007. [Peer-reviewed.]
“Understanding and Modeling State Stability: Exploiting System Dynamics,” with Nazli Choucri, Christi Electris, Daniel Goldsmith, Stuart Madnick, Bradley Morrison, Michael Siegel, and Margaret Sweitzer-Hamilton, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2006. [Peer-reviewed.]
"Governance in the Indo-Pacific Region: Opportunities for US-India Cooperation," in Strategic Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: US and Indian Perspectives, a joint publication of Hoover and ORF, September 20, 2023.
"The Folly of India's Neutrality," with Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs, June 20, 2023.
"The Solution to India's Sikh Protests Lies Abroad," with Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Policy, March 28, 2023.
"India's Congress Party is Still in Decline," with Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Policy, September 14, 2022.
"Modi is Rewriting India's National Narrative," with Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Policy, August 19, 2022.
"Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa Leadership Won't Step Down," with Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Policy, April 20, 2022.
"How Sri Lanka's Economic Crisis Has Been Decades in the Making," with Sumit Ganguly, South China Morning Post, April 6, 2022.
"Engaging India Through the Middle East," The Caravan (Hoover), March 8, 2022.
"Modi's 2021 Cabinet Reshuffle: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same," with Dibyendu Mishra, Arshia Arya, Parantak Singh, and Joyojeet Pal, Blog Post, 2021.
"Why Some Indian States Handled COVID-19 Better Than Others,” with Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Policy, May 28, 2021.
“Who is a Zoroastrian?” The Indian Express, December 22, 2017.
“Go or No-Go? Voting on the World Bank’s Proposed Legal and Judicial Reform Project in Bangladesh,” with Arjuna Dibley and Erik Jensen, Teaching Case Study, Rule of Law Program, Stanford Law School, 2017.
“Remembering Abdul Kalam: A Student’s Perspective,” for a volume on the former President of India, 2015.
“Review of The Role of Elites in Economic Development, edited by Alice H. Amsden, Alicia H. DiCaprio, and James A. Robinson,” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 48(35): 30-32, August 31, 2013.
“What Makes IITs Tick,” The Hindu (Business Line), July 1, 2013.
“More Corrupt, More Accountable,” The Indian Express, January 2, 2012.