Anjali Thomas is an Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology) in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 2004, she was a Non-Resident Fellow at the Governance and Development Institute in Gothenburg, Sweden. Anjali specializes in comparative politics and political economy with a focus on India. The substantive questions that drive her current research have to do with the politics of public goods provision, distributive politics, local governance, and gender disparities. Anjali is the author of Democratization from Above: The Logic of Local Democracy in the Developing World‚ (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Her recent articles have been published in The American Journal of Political Science, The British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies and Political Research Quarterly. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and from the EGAP Metaketa program. Anjali’s major ongoing projects focus on the pathways through which citizens gain formalized access to services, on the role of citizen-state engagement in shaping internal migration, and on the role of state actors in shaping citizens’ pro-developmental attitudes and behaviors.
Anjali Thomas is an Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology) in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 2004, she was a Non-Resident Fellow at the Governance and Development Institute in Gothenburg, Sweden. Anjali specializes in comparative politics and political economy with a focus on India. The substantive questions that drive her current research have to do with the politics of public goods provision, distributive politics, local governance, and…