Associate Professor of Politics
B.A. 1993, Dartmouth; Ph.D. 2000, Harvard

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Personal Homepage: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/chandra/chandra_home.html

Selected Works:

• Forthcoming, “What is Ethnic Identity and Does it Matter?”  Annual Review of Political Science 2005.

• Forthcoming, “Mechanisms and Outcomes,” Qualitative Methods Newsletter, American Political Science Association, Spring 2006

• Forthcoming, “Counting Heads” in Herbert Kitschelt and Steven Wilkinson, eds. Patronage and Clientelism (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)

• Forthcoming, “A Constructivist Dataset on Ethnicity and Institutions (CDEI).” in Rawi Abdelal, Yoshiko Herrera, Ian Johnston and Rose McDermott eds, Identity as a Variable (Under Review)

• 2005, “Ethnic Parties and Democratic Stability.”  Perspectives on Politics.  Vol 3(2): 235-252.

• 2004, Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Headcounts in India.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Cover Image]

• 2001, “Ethnic Bargains, Group Instability and Social Choice Theory.”  Politics and Society.  Volume 29 (3): 337-362.

• 2001, “Cumulative Findings in the Study of Ethnic Politics.”  APSA-CP. Vol. 12 (1): 7-11.

• 2000, “Elite Incorporation in Multi-Ethnic Societies.”  Asian Survey.  Vol XL (5): 836-855.

• 2000, “The Transformation of Ethnic Politics in India: The Decline of Congress and the Rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Hoshiarpur.”  Journal of Asian Studies.  Vol 59 (1): 26-61.

REVIEWS

• Forthcoming, Review of Paul R. Brass, The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003, Journal of Asian Studies

• 2001, “Civic Life or Economic Interdependence.”  Advance Review of Ashutosh Varshney, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life (New Haven: Yale University Press 2002), Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. Vol 39 (1): 110-118.

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