Deshdeep Dhankhar

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New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

Stumbling out of the Gates: Security Strategy and Military Weakness after Revolutionary Victory Revolutionary regimes may prove durable over time, yet they are often weak and militarily ineffective after victory. How do the circumstances of victory shape these weaknesses? Where old regime sec...

Happy to have a new open access Security Studies article on why & how revolutionary regimes often struggle to balance against threats soon after taking power, undermining military effectiveness www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Many congratulations @meghnaydv.bsky.social!

Many congratulations @adityasarkar.bsky.social !

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025.

epssnet.org/belfast-2026/

@rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

Book cover for When Rebels Win: Ideology, Statebuilding, and Power after Civil Wars by Kai M. Thaler, featuring an image of people riding a military vehicle and celebrating the 1979 Sandinista revolutionary victory in Nicaragua

When Rebels Win now has a cover! Thanks to the @cornellupress.bsky.social team for work on the design. It's out December 15, & available to preorder. Please get in touch if you're interested in having me talk about the book in a seminar series or a class! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

JREP abstract discussing attitudes toward ethnic nationalism among Black and Asian Americans and its relation to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Free for a limited period from the latest issue of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics -

Ethnic Nationalism and Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement among Black and Asian Americans - cup.org/40EfjUh

- Kylie Gaines & Pei-Te Lien

#JREP10 #BLM

Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation JESPER LINDQVIST, MIKAEL PERSSON, WOUTER SCHAKEL, ANDERS SUNDELL

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@jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, W.Schakel & A.Sundell look at 🗳️ voters’ policy preferences often misalign with what they get in practice with the study showing how this “electoral connection” gap contributes to unequal outcomes

#OA

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Lessons from AR Memorialization: Artists' and Activists' Approaches to Responsible AR Development | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Together with colleagues & led by PhD students Ana Cardenas & Payton Croskey, our new paper examines how artists & activists use augmented reality technology for memorializing episodes of violence & injustices, navigating technical & ethical dilemmas. Published open access dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities ABSTRACT Some privately developed neighborhoods on the outskirts of India’s cities are formalized by urban authorities while others are not. What explains this uneven formalization and what are its...

The new paper from Adam Auerbach & @tanukumar.com, challenges the conventional understanding of urban peripheries as neglected zones & demonstrates them as crucial sites of negotiation, innovation & contestation. Indeed, future of urban India can't be shaped just in city centres but at their edges.

proud look :)

In this CASI Deep Dive IiT Interview, as CASI Director Tariq Thachil prepares to step down from his role next month, CASI Managing Editor @rohanvenkat.bsky.social speaks to him about "CASI and the Complex Challenge of Studying India in the United States" casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/casi-dee...

How do political families reproduce power: evidence from Maharashtra, India How do political families maintain their hold in local politics? While the impact of dynastic politics on economic development has received scholarly attention, the underlying mechanisms that susta...

A fascinating and carefully researched article on party politics, networks, dynastic politics and the business-politics nexus in India. #entrepreneurialpoliticians #Maharashtra
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Event - Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy

Join us on March 19 for Prof @louisetillin.bsky.social's book launch w/ Christophe Jaffrelot, @indrajitroy.bsky.social
& Sheba Tejani

Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/makin... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

The next talk under
@mwfdelhi.bsky.social #seminarseries
🗣️Sneha Annavarapu, National University of #Singapore
📆Friday, 28 March 2025
🛐Maple Hall, India Habitat Centre, Delhi
Registrations mandatory.
To register send 📩 to events@mwsindia.org by
19 March 2025

Good to have a publication out with @katadeney.bsky.social just as I set up my bsky account.

How do international audiences perceive, and respond to, gender equality reforms in autocracies? latest from @sarahbush.bsky.social @danieladonno.bsky.social & @parzetterberg.bsky.social.

#OpenAccess for now at APSA: bit.ly/3s7jjyD