Adam Auerbach
@adam_m_auerbach
Associate Professor @Yale | Cities, Local Governance, Political Economy, India, South Asia
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Are local officials sufficiently knowledgeable about how to execute their expanded portfolio of responsibilities under decentralization? In a new @apsrjournal, @shikhar_46, @tariqthachil, & I study this question in 🇮🇳's small towns. Open-access article: tinyurl.com/bdd4hbf3 🧵
So grateful for a terrific artwork that captures @OrnitShani and my argument. Out this month @penguinrandom.
Illustrated by Siddhesh Gautam (@siddheshgautam) & designed by me (Shadab Khan), the jacket of “Assembling India’s Constitution” (@itihaasnaama and @OrnitShani) layers history with design. Pantone blue grounds it with calm authority; bold serif type adds permanence.
Our new report #RebootDevelopment sets out an economic vision that decouples prosperity from degradation and places nature at the heart of development worldbank.org/en/publication…
When well-managed, nature can create jobs, drive economic growth, and build resilience. Learn about promising examples and solutions taking place around the world in the new @WorldBank report: wrld.bg/Sx7u50WP1QY #RebootDevelopment
Here is a short think piece that offers a frame for asking: how might advocacy campaigns take stock of when they are getting traction? ... The kind of traction that can last and change the way governments make decisions.... (in four languages)...
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐠: 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐀𝐝𝐝 𝐔𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲? When those in power appear to listen to citizen voices, how can advocates and policy reformers make sense of their responses? What counts as…
Long time (8 years!) in the making, but it's here! Our article on gender, policing, & institutional change is out (Open Access) in @apsrjournal! Working on this @AkshayMangla & @sandipz was a privilege, adventure & education, esp in mixed method research. tinyurl.com/yc4f6ste
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: ippjournal.org/volume-5-numbe…
The Inlaks-King's India Institute visiting PhD fellowship scheme is open again for applications (deadline August 31st). Two 3 month fellowships at King's for students in a PhD programme in Hums and Social Sciences at an Indian university @KingsIndiaInst inlaksfoundation.org/opportunities/…
My new article with @trounstine shows hundreds of city governments had organized employees by the 1930s-1950s. Despite different legal contexts before 1960, the timing & location of early public-sector organization had more in common with private-sector organization than is often…
#OpenAccess from @StudiesAPD - The Growth of Public-Sector Unions in Early Twentieth-Century America - cup.org/4m4RflI - @SarahAnzia & @Trounstine #FirstView
In @apsrjournal, @adam_m_auerbach, @shikhar_46, and @tariqthachil surveyed small town politicians in India and found that local government officials lack procedural knowledge on how to govern. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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!
New article out w/ @tanu_kumar1 on patchwork formalization, private land developers, and public service provision at the edges of India's cities. ⬇️ @JDevStudies
New paper with @adam_m_auerbach in JDS. Exploration of how cities expand outwards--it's often a citizen-led phenomenon, where people just buy up agricultural land and build on it. Can create problems for getting access to services, but citizens are also creative problem-solvers!
Very honored that our book Migrants and Machine Politics is the co-winner of the 2025 Francine Frankel Prize. Many thanks to the award committee. And many congratulations to @sandiptodg for his fabulous book! 📕📗📘📙 @PrincetonUPress @tariqthachil
A privilege to be on the Francine Frankel Prize Committee this year. Engaging with the remarkable books on South Asian Politics was truly rewarding. Many congrats to the co-winners @sandiptodg, @adam_m_auerbach & @tariqthachil for this well-deserved honor! 📚
My review of the book “Migrants and machine politics: How India’s urban poor seek representation and responsiveness” authored by @adam_m_auerbach & @tariqthachil gets published in the Journal of Urban Affairs. doi.org/10.1080/073521… @JUAurban @tandfonline @PrincetonUPress
From our new issue: "Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils" by Adam Auerbach (@adam_m_auerbach), Shikhar Singh (@shikhar_46), and Tariq Thachil (@tariqthachil). #APSRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History by @OrnitShani and @itihaasnaama is out later this year with @CambridgeUP (cover below) and @PenguinIndia cambridge.org/core/books/ass…
Presenting a chapter from my book project at @umichDemocracy (thanks to @SlaterPolitics) on the politics and practice of claim-making and accountability systems in Bihar and beyond. The inimitable @AiyarYamini will be the discussant Register here: umich.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
🌟 The Urban Expansion & the Periphery Framing Paper is live! Preemptive urban planning helps cities harness the benefits of growth. Led by @plamsonhall, this research cluster explores the policies and strategies that can guide sustainable, productive urban expansion. More 👇
New #BookReview by Ran Mei: Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China by Amy Zhang buff.ly/8uRejxi @stanfordpress
Last week the Mortara Center and Professors @DianaSueKim and @PauliinaPatana, with the help of @EuropaSaxa, hosted the Politics of Social Stratification: Global Perspectives, a workshop aimed at examining the politics of social stratification, inequality, and identity.
What will become of international development after the end of the aid paradigm? africanistperspective.com/p/what-will-be…
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