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Pavithra Suryanarayan is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics, specializing in how ethnic inequality shapes institutional development and voting preferences. Her research incorporates methods from historical political economy with a focus on causal identification and spatial survey analysis, and she conducts extensive archival research. Her work focuses on ranked ethnic systems, including the relationships between state capacity and class voting, as well as cross-national party organization and institutionalization in Indian states. Her papers have been published in prestigious journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, and Comparative Political Studies. She has received multiple awards for her work, including the Heinz Eulau Award and the Mancur Olson Award. Suryanarayan has also been involved with the editorial boards of several academic journals and frequently contributes to interdisciplinary blogs on historical political economy.
Department of Economics