Publications
Book
2016
Nepal Transition to Peace: A Decade of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (2006-2016), Kathmandu: NTTP Institute. (Lead Editor, co-edited with Subhash Ghimire and Vidyadhar Mallik)
Journal Articles and book reviews
2022
Election Pledge Fulfilment in India and Western Democracies: A Comparative Analysis (with Robert Thomson and Sania Mariam), Journal of Contemporary Asia, Accepted.
Election Pledges in Valence and Identity Politics with Evidence from India (with Robert Thomson and Sania Mariam), Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 60(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2022.2087356
2021
"We will reduce taxes": Identifying Election Pledges with Language Models across Time, Parties, and Countries (with Tommaso Fornaciari, Elin Naurin, Dirk Hovy, Julia Runeson and Robert Thomson), Findings of Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 3406. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.301
2021 Review of the book Party Mandates and Democracy: Making, Breaking, and Keeping Election Pledges in Twelve Countries, by E. Naurin, T. J. Royed, and R. Thomson (Eds.), Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 59(3), 340-342 https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2021.1959847
Book chapters and reports
2016
“Dissecting an Endogenous Peacebuilding Mechanism in Nepal: Informal Dialogues and Nepal Transition to Peace Process” (with Simon Richards) in Pankaj Adhikari, Subhash Ghimire & Vidyadhar Mallik (Eds.). Nepal Transition to Peace: A Decade of the Comprehensive Peace Accord 2006-2016 (pp. 372-385). Kathmandu: NTTP Institute.
2016
“Introduction” (with Subhash Ghimire and Vidyadhar Mallik) in Pankaj Adhikari, Subhash Ghimire & Vidyadhar Mallik (Eds.). Nepal Transition to Peace: A Decade of the Comprehensive Peace Accord 2006-2016 (pp. 1-4). Kathmandu: NTTP Institute. [URL for full access]
2014
“Nepal Peace Support Project: Creating Consensus” (With Simon Richards and Indra Adhikari). Final Evaluation Report, United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
2014
“Monitoring Nepal’s Peace Process and Constitution Drafting Process” (With David Timberman and Krishna Hachhethu) Final Evaluation Report, United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Work in Progress
Book Project
The Politics of Election Pledges in India
Journal Articles
Issues, Rhetorics and Promises in Indian Election Manifestos.
Policy Content, Choice and Promises in Election Manifestos in Nepal (with Sulav Niraula)