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

Pradeep Chibber — Shallow Democracy: Political Parties and the Crisis of Representation in India

Friday, February 7, 2025

2:00pm - 5:00pm EST

Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St

Q&A and Reception with Pradeep Chibber  to Follow

Commentators:

Adam Auerbach, John Hopkins University

Gabrielle Kruks-WisnerUniversity of Virginia

Donghyun Danny ChoiBrown University

Pradeep Chhibber studies the political parties, party systems, representation, and the politics of South Asia. He has written Righteous Demagogues: Populist Politics in South Asia and Beyond, Oxford University Press, 2024 (with Adnan Naseemullah); India Tomorrow: Conversations with Next Generation Leaders, Oxford University Press, 2020 (with Harsh Shah); Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party System of India, Oxford University Press, 2018 (with Rahul Verma);  Religious Practice and Democracy in India, Cambridge University Press, 2014 (with Sandeep Shastri); The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Britain, Canada, India, and the U.S., Princeton University Press, 2004 (with Ken Kollman); and Democracy without Association: Transformation of Party Systems and Social Cleavages in India, University of Michigan Press 1999. 

Pradeep received an M.A. and an M.Phil. from the University of Delhi and a Ph.D. from UCLA. He is the Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics