Welcome!
I am Tariq Basir, a political economist and currently affiliated as a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at The Murphy Institute at Tulane University. Previously, I was an assistant professor of economics at Kabul University and a Research Scholar at the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh.
My primary research interests lie in political economics and formal theory with applications to revolutions, collective action problem, democratization processes and non-democratic politics. Substantively, I am interested in the study of democratization movements in the MENA region as well as the political economy of governance in Afghanistan.
My work uses tools of economics and game theory, incorporating mathematics and formal modeling to explain political processes like democratization and regime changes. The driving factor behind my research is to understand political processes in undemocratic regimes and identify the conditions needed to transition into a democracy.
Email: tbasir@tulane.edu