Komal @kkaur.bsky.social

Post-doc @PrincetonSPIA
Ph.D. @Cuboulder
Political behavior | Sustainability governance | Social policy

[Komal @kkaur.bsky.social @preet_komal]

🚨New Paper Alert 📢

Link: https://t.co/l9QG806bNy

How are electoral quota beneficiaries perceived for upward mobility? @andyphilips_ and I find: 1. Pipeline effect of quotas is diff for diff groups. Support for women is higher than ethnically marginalized. (1/2)

[Tanushree Goyal @goyal_tanushree]

I am hiring two to three program managers/research assistants for a large field-based research project on gender and development in India, involving survey research and fieldwork. Apply/ more info: https://t.co/PNCioFLFwd

[Rahul Verma @rahul_tverma]

Job Ad for research manager

prospective PhD applicants: excellent opportunity to work with three fantastic political scientists @BruleRachel Bhumi Purohit @AlyssaRHeinze for a project on "Training Elected Women Representatives"

See link for details: https://t.co/n0eZ8Dghpy

[Komal @kkaur.bsky.social @preet_komal]

@leightjessica I'd love to review it! Recently, I have been working on analyzing social protection frameworks from a climate resilience angle.

[Alyssa René Heinze @AlyssaRHeinze]

Thrilled this is out! I document how male elites creatively adapt to electoral reform in Indian village councils. Relevant for thinking about: 1) limits of reforms meant to equalize power, 2) (male) elite capture, 3) "proxy" representatives.

A short 🧵(full thread on bsky)

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

My favourite academia joke of all time. "The moral of this story is: The topic of your dissertation isn't really important; what's important is who your advisor is."

—Harvey Cox, When Jesus Came to Harvard

[Jon Severs @jon_severs]

Increasingly being submitted AI-written articles. Even the worst human writing has an abundance of signals about the writer in the choices they make. AI-written pieces give no signals and that is deeply weird to read. Some common features include...

[British Jnl Poli Sci @BJPolS]

NEW -

Measuring Descriptive Representation at Scale: Methods for Predicting the Race and Ethnicity of Public Officials - https://t.co/N6mNZcuPh0

- Diana Da In Lee (@DleasyPetes) & @YamilRVelez

#OpenAccess

[Maadhyam @maadhyam_engage]

Mitron, #LokSabha just passed the 500+ clause #IncomeTaxBill WITHOUT any debate, within JUST 3 MINUTES 👏👏 (Must see video👇)

But it didn't stop at that!

Immediately after that, the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2025 was also passed WITHOUT any debate, in next 1 MINUTE 👏👏

Oh, and before we forget to mention, both these Bills were introduced today itself, just 2 hours before being passed. They were added to the agenda of House through a supplementary list🤭 So, anyway, no MP would have gotten a chance to read the loooong bills, so they did away with debate altogether. Very convenient, no?

During this, in background there were protests on #SIR, #VoteChori and chants of "Loktantra ki hatya bandh karo" (stop murdering #democracy), "Shame, Shame!" could be heard!

But even this wasn't enough!

Earlier at 2pm, National #Sports Governance Bill, 2025 + National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill, 2025 were passed within JUST 34 minutes👏👏
- Combined these Bills have 45+ clauses
- Only 2 MPs spoke on the Bill
- Minister alone spoke for ~14 mins
- Voting went on for ~7 mins
- Protests were going on in background
- Opposition MPs had moved amendments, which were summarily dismissed as they were either protesting or not in House (can't be sure as Sansad TV doesn't show opposition MPs)

Isn't #Parliament so efficient and productive today?

[Milan Vaishnav @MilanV]

Apropos of the Bihar SIR/electoral roll controversy, here's my new article on the performance of India's apex election machinery, published in a special issue of "Indian Politics & Policy" (curated by @NeelanjanSircar @rahul_tverma) https://t.co/8yRb6neeAl

[CSDS, Delhi @csdsdelhi]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi invites applications for the position of Visiting Fellows under its Science, Technology and Democracy Initiative. For Details, Click https://t.co/8H3X1ssv8A

[Shubhangi Jaiswal @shubhangij_econ]

Thrilled to share my paper “Do Educated Leaders Perform Better?” is now out in Economic Modelling!
Grateful to all mentors & reviewers!

🔗 https://t.co/jTQ1KJ5o8C

[Princeton Politics @PUPolitics]

The Department of Politics is seeking applications from well-qualified individuals for a tenured or tenure track faculty position in public law.
https://t.co/hkEo1BBjD4

[Syeda ShahBano Ijaz @shahbano_ijaz]

📢New Publication!
https://t.co/bnpAXSCWjn
I've stopped using X, but wanted to announce my first ever solo-authored publication, out in Journal of Conflict Resolution this week. I had the idea for this paper as a grad student at Oxford, and began writing it in 2014 at NYU. 1/n

[Bhanu Joshi @beejoshi]

If you’re a grad worker working on South Asia, want sharp feedback & a generous travel/stay grant — please apply to Con-GRA 2025!

[Deadline: July 30]

DM/email with questions. Retweet for good karma!

https://t.co/KSkIRpAnLl

Generously funded by @SouthAsiaBrown @Watson_School

[Neelanjan Sircar @NeelanjanSircar]

Pleased to serve as a special editor alongside @rahul_tverma for an issue on the 2024 national election for Indian Politics & Policy. In the issue, we seek to interrogate how the results shift our theoretical understanding of Indian politics.

Issue: https://t.co/cP3vmV6A0E

[Marco Alcocer @Marco_Alcocer1]

In a new publication, my coauthors and I ask:

Do women mayors in Mexico address violence against women better than their male counterparts? We find that they do reduce some forms of VAW, and we probe possible mechanisms.

Read here: https://t.co/I1yDD6dbdA

[Ashwini_Deshpande @_ADeshpande]

📢🌠 @goyal_tanushree & I are looking for an RA for an exciting project on Culture, Media & AI Research. Please fill in the form (link 👇) if the description below is up your alley.

https://t.co/mAAMq58ZGL

[Komal @kkaur.bsky.social @preet_komal]

@kumar_rithika @ApurvaBamezai @KelloggInst Congratulations, Apurva!

[MaansiV @mv_meanderings]

In today's Hindustan Times, I analyse the findings and recommendations of a recent #Parliament Standing Committee report to make a case for decentralised #urbanplanning and participatory #urbangovernance!

Please read and feedback welcome - https://t.co/HwMau88A3T

[Rithika Kumar @kumar_rithika]

Since I've often posted about this project on Twitter, I wanted to share that my job market paper is now forthcoming at the Journal of Politics! This paper has been a labor of love and the source of much joy (and frustration). Excited that it found a home!