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Overview

Pradeep Chhibber is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities. Their research emphasizes Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, and Philosophy, with additional interests in Visual Arts and Performing Arts as well as Economics and Econometrics.

Their scholarly output revolves around topics such as South Asian Studies and Conflicts, Social and Economic Development in India, Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East, Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies, South Asian Cinema and Culture, Indian History and Philosophy, and Politics and Society in Latin America.

Recent publications include the following:

  • Privileging One's Own? Voting Patterns and Politicized Spending in India, 2022, Comparative Political Studies
  • Bureaucratic connections and local development: A study of Palwal district in India, 2022, Regional & Federal Studies
  • The temporary and partial personalization of political parties in India: A comparison of Indira Gandhi's INC and Narendra Modi's BJP, 2024, Social Science Quarterly
  • Economic Ideology in Indian Politics: Why Do Elite and Mass Politics Differ?, 2023, Studies in Indian Politics
  • Replication Data for: Privileging one's own? Voting patterns and politicized spending in India, 2022, Harvard Dataverse

Their book publications feature a title released by Oxford University Press:

  • India Tomorrow, 2020

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Harsh Shah
  • Francesca R. Jensenius
  • Pranav Gupta
  • B. E. Leake
  • Rahul Verma

Their research has been published in venues such as:

  • Studies in Indian Politics
  • Comparative Political Studies
  • Regional & Federal Studies
  • Social Science Quarterly
  • Harvard Dataverse

Best Publications

  • Foreign Ownership and Profitability: Property Rights, Control, and the Performance of Firms in Indian Industry*

    Pradeep K. Chhibber;Sumit K. Majumdar

  • The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States

    Pradeep K. Chhibber;Ken Kollman

  • Capital structure and performance: Evidence from a transition economy on an aspect of corporate governance

    Sumit K. Majumdar;Pradeep Chhibber

  • Party Aggregation and the Number of Parties in India and the United States

    Pradeep Chhibber;Ken Kollman

  • Do Party Systems Count?: The Number of Parties and Government Performance in the Indian States

    Pradeep Chhibber;Irfan Nooruddin

  • Unstable Politics: Fiscal Space and Electoral Volatility in the Indian States

    Irfan Nooruddin;Pradeep Chhibber

  • Elite Strategy, Social Cleavages, and Party Systems in a New Democracy Spain

    Pradeep Chhibber;Mariano Torcal

  • Why the Poor Vote in India: “If I Don’t Vote, I Am Dead to the State”

    Amit Ahuja;Pradeep Chhibber

  • Why are Some Women Politically Active? The Household, Public Space, and Political Participation in India:

    Pradeep Chhibber

  • Ideology and identity

    Pradeep K. Chhibber;Rahul Verma

  • The Formation of National Party Systems

    Pradeep Chhibber;Ken Kollman

  • Federal Arrangements and the Provision of Public Goods in India

    Pradeep Chhibber;Sandeep Shastri;Richard Sisson

  • Party organization and party proliferation in India

    Pradeep Chhibber;Francesca Refsum Jensenius;Pavithra Suryanarayan

  • The Puzzle of Indian Politics: Social Cleavages and the Indian Party System

    Pradeep K. Chhibber;John R. Petrocik

  • Political parties, electoral competition, government expenditures and economic reform in India

    Pradeep Chhibber

  • State as Investor and State as Owner: Consequences for Firm Performance in India

    Pradeep Chhibber;Sumit K. Majumdar

  • Duvergerian Dynamics in the Indian States Federalism and the Number of Parties in the State Assembly Elections

    Pradeep Chhibber;Geetha Murali

  • The Rise of the Second Dominant Party System in India: BJP’s New Social Coalition in 2019:

    Pradeep Chhibber;Rahul Verma

  • Dynastic parties: Organization, finance and impact

    Pradeep Chhibber

  • The BJP’s Fragile Mandate: Modi and Vote Mobilizers in the 2014 General Elections:

    Pradeep K. Chhibber;Susan L. Ostermann

  • Democracy without Associations

    Pradeep K. Chhibber

  • Party Aggregation and the Number of Parties in India and the

    Pradeep Chhibber

  • State Policy, Rent Seeking, and the Electoral Success of a Religious Party in Algeria

    Pradeep K. Chhibber

Frequent Co-Authors

Sumit K. Majumdar
Sumit K. Majumdar The University of Texas at Dallas
Peter C. Ordeshook
Peter C. Ordeshook California Institute of Technology
Nancy Bermeo
Nancy Bermeo University of Oxford
Mariano Torcal
Mariano Torcal Pompeu Fabra University

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