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Overview

Devesh Kapur is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research expertise lies primarily within the Social Sciences, particularly concentrating on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, and Law. The breadth of their work encompasses Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies, South Asian Studies and Conflicts, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Income, Poverty, and Inequality, as well as Politics and Society in Latin America and Political Conflict and Governance.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "The Three Faces of the Indian State," 2021, Journal of Democracy
  • "Rethinking the Study of Electoral Politics in the Developing World: Reflections on the Indian Case," 2021, Perspectives on Politics
  • "Who Rallies around the Flag? Nationalist Parties, National Security, and the 2019 Indian Election," 2021, American Journal of Political Science
  • "The Rise of India's Second Republic," 2024, Journal of Democracy
  • "What Is Women's Work? Reflections from Four North Indian Urban Clusters," 2021, Urbanisation

Devesh Kapur has frequently collaborated with several scholars, including Madhav Khosla, Neelanjan Sircar, Jamie Hintson, and Adam Michael Auerbach.

Their work has appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • Urbanisation
  • Journal of Democracy
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • American Journal of Political Science
  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

In addition to articles, Kapur has published books with Yale University Press, including the title "When Crime Pays" (2020).

Best Publications

  • Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World

    Devesh Kapur

  • Diaspora, Development, and Democracy

    Devesh Kapur

  • How do spatial and social proximity influence knowledge flows? Evidence from patent data

    Ajay Agrawal;Devesh Kapur;John McHale

  • Brain drain or brain bank? The impact of skilled emigration on poor-country innovation

    Ajay Agrawal;Devesh Kapur;John McHale;Alexander Oettl

  • Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India

    Devesh Kapur

  • Remittances : the new development mantra?

    Devesh Kapur

  • The World Bank : its first half century

    Devesh Kapur;John Prior Lewis;Richard Charles Webb

  • Diasporas and Technology Transfer

    Devesh Kapur

  • India's emerging competitive advantage in services

    D. Kapur;R. Ramamurti

  • Rethinking inequality: dalits in Uttar Pradesh in the market reform era.

    Devesh Kapur;C. B. Prasad;Lant Pritchett;D. S. Babu

  • Migration's New Payoff

    Devesh Kapur;John McHale

  • Improving Data Quality: Actors, Incentives, and Capabilities

    Yoshiko M. Herrera;Devesh Kapur;Devesh Kapur

  • The Other One Percent: Indians in America

    Devesh Kapur;Sanjoy Chakravorty;Nirvikar Singh

  • The fiscal impact of high-skilled emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S.

    Mihir A. Desai;Devesh Kapur;John McHale;Keith Rogers

  • The causes and consequences of India's IT boom

    Devesh Kapur

  • (When) Do Antipoverty Programs Reduce Violence? India's Rural Employment Guarantee and Maoist Conflict

    Aditya Dasgupta;Kishore Gawande;Devesh Kapur

  • The Political Economy of Bureaucratic Overload: Evidence from Rural Development Officials in India

    Aditya Dasgupta;Devesh Kapur

  • Indian Higher Education Reform: From Half- Baked Socialism to Half-Baked Capitalism

    Devesh Kapur;Pratap Bhanu Mehta

  • Sharing The Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows

    Mihir A. Desai;Devesh Kapur;John McHale

  • Quid Pro Quo: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India

    Devesh Kapur;Devesh Kapur;Milan Vaishnav

  • Governance-related conditionalities of the international financial institutions

    Devesh Kapur;Richard Webb

  • The IMF: A Cure or a Curse?

    Devesh Kapur

  • Political Effects of International Migration

    Devesh Kapur;Devesh Kapur

  • Ideas and Economic Reforms in India: The Role of International Migration and the Indian Diaspora

    Devesh Kapur

  • Social Protection in India: A Welfare State Sans Public Goods?

    Devesh Kapur;Prakirti Nangia

  • Processes of change in international organizations

    Devesh Kapur

  • Public institutions in India : performance and design

    Devesh Kapur;Pratap Bhanu Mehta

  • Indian Higher Education

    Devesh Kapur

  • Higher Education and MOOCs in India and the Global South

    Brandon Alcorn;Gayle Christensen;Devesh Kapur

  • climate change: india's o ptions

    Devesh Kapur;Devesh Kapur;Radhika Khosla;Pratap Bhanu Mehta

  • Who Gets to Run the World

    Devesh Kapur

  • Mortgaging the Future? Indian Higher Education

    Devesh Kapur;Pratap Bhanu Mehta

  • Public Opinion and Indian Foreign Policy

    Devesh Kapur

  • Higher Education Reform in China and India: The Role of the State

    Devesh Kapur;Elizabeth J. Perry

  • Decentralization in Nepal: Perspectives of Local Development Officers

    Henry S. Bienen;Devesh Kapur;Jimi Parks;Jeffrey Riedinger

  • The Skills They Want: Aspirations of Students in Emerging India

    Megha Aggarwal;Devesh Kapur;Namrata Tognatta

Frequent Co-Authors

Ajay Agrawal
Ajay Agrawal University of Toronto
Nirvikar Singh
Nirvikar Singh University of California, Santa Cruz
Arvind Subramanian
Arvind Subramanian Center for Global Development
Mihir A. Desai
Mihir A. Desai Harvard University
John P. Lewis
John P. Lewis Victoria University of Wellington
Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett London School of Economics and Political Science
Richard N. Cooper
Richard N. Cooper Harvard University

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