Tanushree Goyal, an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Princeton University, conducts research at the intersection of comparative politics, development, gender, and political economy, with a particular focus on India and Brazil. Her work examines critical questions about the dynamics of institutions, culture, and policy, including: What drives inequalities in political access? Can decentralizing political institutions inadvertently enhance accountability, foster collective action, and drive systemic change to improve human welfare? How does culture shape policy outcomes, and conversely, can policy drive cultural change?
Her research employs a variety of causal designs and data sources, including natural, survey, and field experiments, large-scale and long-form surveys, in-depth qualitative fieldwork, and high-resolution administrative data. Previously, she was a post-doctoral scholar at the Harvard Academy and a non-resident visiting fellow with the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her PhD in Political Science in 2021 at the University of Oxford, where she was a member of Nuffield College.
Tanushree Goyal, an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Princeton University, conducts research at the intersection of comparative politics, development, gender, and political economy, with a particular focus on India and Brazil. Her work examines critical questions about the dynamics of institutions, culture, and policy, including: What drives inequalities in political access? Can decentralizing political institutions inadvertently enhance accountability, foster collective action, and drive systemic change to improve human welfare? How does culture shape policy outcomes, and conversely, can policy drive cultural change? Her research employs a variety of causal designs and data sources, including natural, survey,…