Publications and Peer Reviewed Articles
"The Micro-Politics of Vote Banks in Karnataka 1955-2009." Economic and Political Weekly XLVI (14): 71-77.
"India-Gulf Migration: Corruption and Capacity in Regulating Recruitment Agencies" Global Studies Review (October 2010).
"Vote-Buying: Is it a Threat to Democratic Policy Representation?" PS: Political Science and Politics XL (October 2007), 821.
Book Chapters
"Indian Migration and 'Temporary' Labor Programs: Select Contrasts in Policies and Trends in the European Union and the United States" is forthcoming in an Oxford University Press book edited by Mark Lopez (Pew Hispanic Center).
"Migrant Labor and Regional Policy Initiatives: Recruitment Agencies as Information Brokers."
In Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf, ed. Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Barbar. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Short Summary:
Migrant Labor Summary
"Civil Society and Foreign Aid in India: An Assessment of USAID Policy Assumptions in India." In The Role of Public Administration in Alleviating Poverty and Improving Governance, ed. Jak Jabes. New York: Asian Development Bank, 2005.
World Bank Reports
"Bangladesh: World Bank Engagement on Governance and Anticorruption." Washington, DC: World Bank, 2011. Co-authored with Clay Wescott
"World Bank Country-Level Engagement on Governance and Anticorruption: An Evaluation of the 2007 Strategy and Implementation Plan." Washington, DC: World Bank, 2011. The evaluation team was led by Navin Girishankar. I was responsible for the econometric analysis, data collection and management.
Working Papers
"Citizenship and Service Delivery: Bangalore Case Study." With Siddharth Swaminathan, Institute for Social and Economic Change
"Micropolitics of Vote Banks in Urban and Rural Service Delivery."
"Primary Education and Electoral Accountability in India's Silicon Valley: A Case in which Locally Elected Leaders Become Brokers for Securing School Resources."
"Is the World Bank Responsive to Informal Institutions?"
"Approaches to Governance and Anti-Corruption in the Primary Education Sector."
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