Abhit Bhandari

Assistant Professor @VandyPoliSci studying business and politics in Africa.

[Florian Hollenbach 🤷🏻‍♂️ @fhollenbach]

Come to Copenhagen and work with me and @DavidFortunato on our @DFF_raad funded project on legislative capacity. We are hiring for a 2 year postdoc: research only, no teaching. Salary is very good, colleagues and city are great. Ad is here: https://t.co/YofJojIgup 1/2

[Abhit Bhandari @abhitbhandari]

Many thanks to my colleagues and participants in Senegal, to the committee (@ClintPeinhardt, @desireedesierto, @ByungwonWoo, @amypond_ps), and to the too-many-to-name people who provided feedback!

[Abhit Bhandari @abhitbhandari]

Surprised and honored to have received the Michael Wallerstein Award for Best Article in Political Economy from @APSAPolEconomy!

“Political Determinants of Economic Exchange: Evidence from a Business Experiment in Senegal” is available @AJPS_Editor here: https://t.co/ZfMRrMyPle

[Abhit Bhandari @abhitbhandari]

…to show that connections change expectations of judicial enforcement and thus patterns of economic exchange. This can segment markets and intensify broader political and economic inequalities.

[Mogens K. Justesen @mkjustesen]

🚨 Job alert 🚨. We're hiring a 2-year postdoc in Business & Government to work on the project “Tycoon Candidates: Why Wealthy Business Candidates Get Elected for Office and How it Matters” at EGB @CBScph. https://t.co/vJZaqtWjQ0

[Abhit Bhandari @abhitbhandari]

I’m going to miss my students and colleagues at Temple, where I wrapped up my final semester today. It’s been a wonderfully supportive place to be junior faculty, and I’m so lucky that I was able to start my career there.

[Abhit Bhandari @abhitbhandari]

Very happy to share that I’ll be joining @VandyPoliSci as an assistant professor this fall! Beyond excited to join this amazing community of scholars and to return to my home state.

[Abhit Bhandari @abhitbhandari]

What motivates firms to do business when enforcement is uncertain? I conducted a survey and conjoint experiment with nearly 2400 Senegalese formal and informal firms to find out. Online now at CPS: https://t.co/GASHTzCDKg

[Abhit Bhandari @abhitbhandari]

@dhdannychoi @BrownUPoliSci @BrownUniversity Congrats, Danny!

[Alexandra Guisinger @A_Guisinger]

Hey, fellow political scientists. Come work with me. Temple University just announced two tenure-track, Assistant-level positions. 1)Quantitative American https://t.co/cHnUbJOpZk APSA Job # 9423 and 2) American Politics and Political Theory https://t.co/ayogIDIZN0 APSA Job # 9425

[Yang-Yang Zhou 周泱泱 @yangyang_zhou]

🚨🚨🚨 My paper w. @AndrewCShaver is out @apsrjournal! #polisciresearch
Does hosting refugees increase conflict & violence?
No! Using new data on where refugees are located, we find no effects & in some cases, conflict reduction.
@UBCpolisci @CIFAR_News @CEGA_UC @womenalsoknow

[Andreas Wiedemann @abwiedemann]

New paper out now at @AJPS_Editor. Why are some households more indebted than others? I show that the structure of social policies and financial markets shapes patterns of indebtedness across countries.

➡️ https://t.co/OapSsKlU0o

[Joan Ricart-Huguet @ricarthuguet]

Just accepted @ISQ_Jrnl!! @The_RickMc & I go beyond the repression vs. concession dichotomy to argue that weak states may instead disengage. Evidence from colonial #Africa. Thank you for comments/discussions to those tagged & others! Paper: https://t.co/UiNJgpCFUv

[Horacio Larreguy @HLarreguy]

Just published with @abhitbhandari and John Marshall! https://t.co/PMQ73LIjNH

[Noah Nathan @noahlnathan]

Excited to see my experiment on social networks and cooperation with @atwellpaul published online at @AJPS_Editor!

https://t.co/sYic6bTpU0

Paul has a great thread below summarizing our findings:

[Abhit Bhandari @abhitbhandari]

Thrilled to see this paper in early view at AJPS! How do political connections and contracts affect everyday commerce in uncertain trading environments? I created a business in Senegal to find out.

[AJPS @AJPS_Editor]

Political Determinants of Economic Exchange: Evidence from a Business Experiment in Senegal by Abhit Bhandari is now available in Early View. @abhitbhandari https://t.co/2P6lju59Hm

[Rachel Beatty Riedl @BeattyRiedl]

WGAPE Rapid Research Grants to support junior African researchers (for projects that can be executed rapidly using secondary data, or that use primary data collected in accordance with restrictions on in-person contact (e.g., phone surveys). https://t.co/Mzcrn4XNfX

[Leonard Wantchekon @lwantchekon]

Friends,
35 yrs ago (May 6, 85), I was part a major student uprising, a foundational moment for democracy in Benin and West Africa. Would like to share with you a pic and Ch 7 of my book on the event and its aftermath. Intense.

https://t.co/jt4Kov7P9Z

https://t.co/khUwP6x4Ye