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Deshdeep Dhankhar
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PhD Student in Political Science @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social | Affiliated Fellow @mwfdelhi.bsky.social, Max Weber Shifting | Prev. SAISHopkins, @casipenn.bsky.social | Democracy and Opposition Politics | Institutions, Party Politics and Local Governance
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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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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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!
September 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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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...
October 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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
July 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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📘 64.4

@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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Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation
JESPER LINDQVIST, MIKAEL PERSSON, WOUTER SCHAKEL, ANDERS SUNDELL
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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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/...
Lessons from AR Memorialization: Artists' and Activists' Approaches to Responsible AR Development | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
dl.acm.org
July 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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.
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...
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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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...
CASI Deep Dive: Tariq Thachil on CASI and the Complex Challenge of Studying India in the United States | Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)
casi.sas.upenn.edu
May 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
March 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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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
March 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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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
March 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Good to have a publication out with @katadeney.bsky.social just as I set up my bsky account.
Honoured to be publishing in Studies in Indian Politics. Wilfried Swenden & I are looking at India's federation in comparison to multinational multilevel systems from the Global North including #UK, #Belgium and #Spain

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November 21, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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
International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies | American Political Science Review...
International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies
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October 28, 2023 at 1:19 PM