Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Contemporary South Asia

Zuheir Desai — How do Gender Quotas Impact Accountability?

Friday, December 3, 2021

12:00pm - 1:30pm EST

Discussant:
Tanushree Goyal
Harvard University

Zuheir Desai is an assistant Professor in the School of Global and Public Affairs at IE University. His research focuses on electoral competition and political accountability. His work spans both theoretical models of elections, voting, and policymaking, as well as empirical applications of these models on developing democracies such as Brazil and India.

Previously, Desai was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University in the 2020-21 academic year. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Rochester in 2020.

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