Kanchan Chandra Professor of Politics B.A. 1993, Dartmouth; Ph.D. 2000, Harvard Email: Office Address:  NYU Department of Politics, 19 W. 4th Street, New York, NY 10012 Office Room Number:  412 Personal Homepage For a full list of my work, see my Vita.

Areas of Research/Interest: Comparative Ethnic Politics, Democratic Theory, Political Parties and Elections, Violence, Comparative Research Methods, Political Economy

Select Publications:
BOOKS

• Constructivist Theories of Ethnic Politics (Forthcoming 2012: Oxford University Press).  Download introduction here.
  
• Why Ethnic Parties Succeed (Cambridge University Press: 2004). Download introduction here.
  

• 2011, “What is an Ethnic Party.”  Party Politics, March 2011
• 2009, “Designing Measures of Ethnic Identity: The Problems of Overlap and Incompleteness.” Qualitative Methods Newsletter, Spring 2009
• 2009, “A Constructivist Dataset on Ethnicity and Institutions (CDEI).” in Rawi Abdelal, Yoshiko Herrera, Ian Johnston and Rose McDermott eds, Identity as a Variable (Cambridge University Press)
• 2009, “Why Voters in Patronage-Democracies Split Their Tickets: Strategic Voting for Ethnic Parties in Patronage-Democracies.”  Electoral Studies (2009)
• 2008, “Making Causal Claims About Ethnic Politics” in Mark Lichbach and Alan Zuckerman eds, Comparative Politics (Cambridge University Press: 2008)
• 2008, “Ethnic Invention: A New Principle for Institutional Design in Multi-Ethnic Democracies”  James Johnson, Jack Knight, Margaret Levi and James Johnson eds, Mobilizing Democracy (Jointly published by the American Political Science Association and the Russell Sage Foundation).
• 2008, “Measuring the Effect of Ethnicity” (with Steven Wilkinson). Comparative Political Studies (April 2008)
• 2007, “Counting Heads” in Herbert Kitschelt and Steven Wilkinson, eds. Patronage and Clientelism (Cambridge University Press) 
• 2006, “What is Ethnic Identity and Does it Matter?”  Annual Review of Political Science. Vol. 9: 397-424
• 2006, “Mechanisms and Outcomes,” Qualitative Methods Newsletter, American Political Science Association, Spring Issue.
• 2005, “Ethnic Parties and Democratic Stability.”  Perspectives on Politics.  Vol 3(2): 235-252.
• 2001, “Ethnic Bargains, Group Instability and Social Choice Theory.”  Politics and Society.  Volume 29 (3): 337-362.
• 2001, “Cumulative Findings in the Study of Ethnic Politics.”  APSA-CP. Vol. 12 (1): 7-11.
• 2000, “Elite Incorporation in Multi-Ethnic Societies.”  Asian Survey.  Vol XL (5): 836-855.
• 2000, “The Transformation of Ethnic Politics in India: The Decline of Congress and the Rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Hoshiarpur.”  Journal of Asian Studies.  Vol 59 (1): 26-61.
• 1999, “The Ethnification of the Party System in Uttar Pradesh and its Consequences,” in Indian Politics and the 1998 Election, Ramashray Roy and Paul Wallace, eds., New Delhi: Sage Publications, pgs 55-104.
• 1997, “Party Strategies in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 1996.” (with Chandrika Parmar), in Economic and Political Weekly, February 1 1997.
  

• 2006. Review of Paul R. Brass, The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003, Journal of Asian Studies
• 2001, “Civic Life or Economic Interdependence.”  Advance Review of Ashutosh Varshney, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life (New Haven: Yale University Press 2002), Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. Vol 39 (1): 110-118.
  

Fellowships/Honors: National Science Foundation (2009-11, 2005-9), United States Institute of Peace (2009-11), Guggenheim Fellow (2009-10), Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences (2009-10), Carnegie Fellow (2008-10), Russell Sage Fellow (2005-6), Radcliffe Institute Fellowship 2005-6 (Declined), Harvard Academy Fellow (1999, 2001), SSRC-Macarthur Dissertation Fellow in International Peace and Security (1996-98).