Political Science

Summer 2020 Publications in Comparative Politics

Political Science comparative politics faculty published many articles about the field this summer. 

Rob Blair, Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Comments in Masks May Be Good, But the Messaging Around Them has Been Very Bad in The Verge.com.

Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Special COVID-19 Series: How Solidarity is Controlling Contagion in Kerala, India in Transition, Center for the Advanced Study of India
Comments in A Nationalist's Guide to Stepping Back from the Brink in The Atlantic
On COVID-19 and Intergroup Relations, Q&A in the American Political Science Association's Comparative Politics 2020 Spring Newsletter
Comments in Life under lockdown is brutal for India's female day laborers in ABC News
In India, protesters are singing the national anthem and waving the flag. Here's why that matters. Monkey Cage, The Washington Post

Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Associate Professor of Political  Science
Will Trump's name on stimulus checks help win him votes in November? in The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post

Ashu Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Political Science
Hindu nationalism, White supremacism threaten to morally impoverish the two democracies in The Indian Express
It is not simply the death of a black man, but yet another moment of truth for America in The Indian Express
If Shiv Sena wishes to remain in power, it can't return to ful-blooded Hindutva in The Indian Express
The new capitalism: In the foreseeable future, politics will drive economic policies, not market-based rationality in The Indian Express