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Anirudh Krishna, Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science

Anirudh Krishna
Contact Info:
Office Location:  212 Sanford Institute
Office Phone:  (919) 613-7337
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Teaching (Fall 2009):

Teaching (Spring 2010):

Education:

PhD, Cornell University, 2000
M.P.S., Cornell University, 1995
M.A., Delhi School of Economics, 1980
B.A. (Honors), St. Stephens College, Delhi University, India, 1978
Specialties:

Comparative Politics
Research Interests: Poverty and Democracy in Developing Countries

Current projects: Making and Unmaking Poverty, Connecting Democracy with the People: Institutions in the Middle, Why Do People Vote? Examining Motivations and Influences

ANIRUDH KRISHNA (Ph.D. in Government, Cornell 2000; Masters in Economics, Delhi 1980) is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research investigates how poor communities and individuals in developing countries cope with the structural and personal constraints that result in poverty and powerlessness. For the past seven years, he has been examining poverty dynamics at the household level, tracking movements into and out of poverty of over 35,000 households in a varied group of nearly 400 communities of India, Kenya, Uganda, Peru and North Carolina, USA. He has published more than forty journal articles and book chapters. Books include Poverty, Participation and Democracy: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Active Social Capital: Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2002); Changing Policy and Practice From Below: Community Experiences in Poverty Reduction (United Nations Press, 2000); Reasons for Success: Learning From Instructive Experiences in Rural Development (Kumarian Press, 1998), and Reasons for Hope: Instructive Experiences in Rural Development (Kumarian Press, 1997). Before turning to academia, Krishna worked for 14 years in the Indian Administrative Service, where he managed diverse initiatives related to rural and urban development.

Areas of Interest:

Poverty dynamics
Inter-generational mobility
Participation in Democracy
Social Capital

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. A. Krishna, Introduction: Poor People and Democracy, in Poverty, Participation and Democracy: A Global Perspective, edited by A. Krishna (2008), Cambridge University Press .
  2. A. Krishna, Do Poor People Care Less for Democracy? Testing Individual-Level Assumptions with Individual-Level Data from India, in Poverty, Participation and Democracy: A Global Perspective, edited by A. Krishna (2008), Cambridge University Press .
  3. A. Krishna and J.A. Booth, Conclusion: Implications for Pollicy and Research, in Poverty, Participation and Democracy: A Global Perspective, edited by A. Krishna (2008), Cambridge University Press .
  4. A. Krishna and J. Lecy, “The Balance of All Things: Explaining Household Poverty Dynamics in 50 Villages of Gujarat, India”, International Journal of Multiple Research Methods, vol. 2 no. 2 (2008), pp. 160-75 .
  5. A. Krishna, “Why Don’t ‘the Poor’ Make Common Cause? The Importance of Subgroups.”, Journal of Development Studies, vol. forthcoming (2008) .