Pankaj Adhikari

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Welcome to my website! I am a doctoral researcher at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University, with ten years of experience in research, teaching and public scholarship, specializing in comparative politics and public policy. I have worked in policy analysis and evaluation research, with a focus on democracy and governance in South Asia.

My doctoral research includes comparative analysis of policy issues, themes and promises in political party campaigns. My long-term research program includes work on party competition and problems of policy-making using qualitative and mixed-methods. Broadly, I am interested in political representation, party politics, government performance, democratization and democratic backsliding.