Pratik Mahajan

What a year for cinema. From the ashes of COVID, we get our best year yet since 2019.

Was great to be in Beautiful British Columbia to present and think about research!

And Feyaad will present the other paper on an exciting Theme Panel about Parties and Democracy in India.
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At @apsa.bsky.social next week, I want to invite everyone to our panel where I present one of two papers from new joint work with @feyaadallie.bsky.social on non-partisan CSOs as distinct intermediaries linking parties and voters. We have an excellent panel on electoral politics and inclusion!

Officially matriculated at Yale! Excited for the years of learning ahead with my poli sci cohort!

It would be interesting to see these disaggregated by subfield/open positions. I have no priors for this but it seems as though the number of CP positions has plummeted

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library How do parties in multiethnic societies shape voter attitudes toward female candidates? We address this question, focusing on parties with ideologies that contain ethnonationalist gender norms—patria...

Ethnonationalist Gender Norms: How Parties Shape Voter Attitudes toward Female Candidates in India - Thomas - 2024 - American Journal of Political Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Did the number of positions REDUCE over the past month from June 2025 to July 2025? Or is that just the total number of positions added each month rather than the cumulative number of positions posted?

And here is the link for the dataset available on Harvard Dataverse: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... (4/4)

Here is the link for the dataset on SHRUG's User Contribution page: devdatalab.org/shrug_downlo... (3/4)

The LGD codes allow me to achieve 90% accuracy in linking SHRUG village identifiers with their corresponding GPs, and above 95% accuracy in most Indian states. Hope it will be of use to those trying to combine village and GP level datasets. (2/4)

New dataset alert 🚨 Using LGD codes assigned by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj in India, I link villages across India with SHRUG (@devdatalab) identifiers to their corresponding Gram Panchayats, allowing for GP level analysis of census and other village-level data. (1/4)

This is the best and the worst Dall-E update ever. Did Studio Ghibli agree to this?

I have learned a lot from:

Saad Gulzar Who Enters Politics and Why

Kate Baldwin Traditional Authorities around the world

Pavithra Suryanarayan Endogenous State Capacity

Thank you so much Bhumi!

Congratulations Mathias, have learnt so much from your scholarship as a student! Looking forward to presenting at APSA at the same panel in Vancouver!

Thank you so much Saad!

Thank you again for your generosity Danny!

The poli sci community is generous, welcoming and I couldn't be more thrilled to become a very junior member of it. I hope to do justice to the faith shown in me by so many whose work continues to inspire me (14/n)!

Finally, I am grateful to @saadgulzar.bsky.social, Tanushree Goyal, @bhumi.bsky.social, Shikhar Singh, @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social, Prerna Singh, @dhdannychoi.bsky.social, Steven Wilkinson, Deborah Yashar, Kate Baldwin, and Adam Auerbach for guidance at various stages this past year. (13/n)!

Researching political ambition with Rahul Verma has sparked my own ambition to someday have knowledge of Indian politics as widely and deeply as he does! His encouragement helped calmed nerves during the uncertainty of the PhD admissions process (12/n).

In Alyssa Heinze I found a fellow political scientist working in Maharashtra. Her insights into managing field projects eased the pain of overseeing 30 enumerators. She is a remarkable academic of gender and climate and I am lucky to collaborate with and learn from her (11/n)

I am forever grateful that @feyaadallie.bsky.social took a chance on me based on a cold email at the end of my MA and mentored me through my transition from a consumer to a producer of research. I hope to pay forward his selflessness in giving me intellectual space in our collaboration (10/n)

I am also grateful to the generous funding and intellectual space provided by @ISID_McGill and @CAnD3_PG, which made me a better student of development and population change respectively (9/n).

I am grateful to the friends I made @McGillPoliSci, particularly John Hicks and Danielle Bohonos, who were a calming presence during my time at McGill and I am grateful to them for reading multiple drafts of my PhD applications (8/n)

I continue to be in awe of @dietlinds.bsky.social, who as a senior scholar with multiple admin roles generously mentors students. Her weekly labs provided me a space to learn and present research with my peers, fostering a strong sense of community that.helped me through difficult days (7/n)

@aaronerlich.bsky.social graciously took me on as a student and demanded a level of rigour and initiative, which made me a better researcher. He opened doors for me at @CSDC_CECD, a community of students and faculty with whom I found my home while working on my MA thesis. (6/n)

I was lucky to have Narendra Subramanian as a constant mentor and interlocutor on everything to do with politics and society in India. He wrote recommendations for me at a day’s notice, and showed faith in my potential as a scholar which got me through my MA. (5/n)

Elissa Berwick introduced me to questions political scientists ask and struggle to answer, beginning my pivot toward the discipline. She taught me the rigorous nature of research while retaining the joy in pursuing questions I cared about. (4/n)

6 years ago when I started my undergrad at @mcgill.ca, I was a teenager full of questions about why the world isn’t the way it ought to be. I found my place in Chris Howard’s lectures on ethics, lighting an intellectual spark that still keeps me going today. (3/n)