Pradeep Chhibber
Professor of Political Science
Phone: (510) 643-5779
Office Location: 850D Barrows
Office Hours: F 10:00-12:00
Fall 2008 Course: Not teaching in Political Science this term
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Party aggregation: Party aggregation is the process by which parties link across geographic units to form either national or regional political parties. This issue was first explored in “Party Aggregation and the Number of Parties in India and the United States” American Political Science Review, 1998. This paper, co-authored with Ken Kollman, won the Jack Walker award in 2000 for the best paper published in the previous two years in the area of party politics and organizations. Party aggregation is examined in far greater detail in a book written with Ken Kollman published by Princeton University Press in 2004, entitled The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Britain, Canada, India and the United States. This book won the Leon Epstein Award in 2005 for the best book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations. It was a runner up for the Luebbert award given by the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association for the best book published in the previous two years. Party Systems: In the area of party systems most of the research focuses on the relationship of social divisions and party systems. This issue was considered in a paper co-authored with Mariano Torcal “Electoral Strategies, Social Cleavages, and Party Systems in a New Democracy: Spain” Comparative Political Studies, 1997. The paper was a runner-up for the best paper award given by the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Further investigation of this phenomenon can be found in “State Policy, Rent Seeking, and the Electoral Success of a Religious Party in Algeria” Journal of Politics, 1996 and in some of his research on India. India: The relationship between social divisions and party systems in India is examined in Democracy without Associations: Transformation of Party Systems and Social Cleavages in India. University of Michigan Press 1999. This book won the Leon Epstein Award in 2000 for the best book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations. The influence of party politics and party systems on state policy and the delivery of public goods appears in “Do Party Systems Count? The Number of Parties and Government Performance in the Indian States” forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies (with Irfan Nooruddin). The gendered nature of representation in electoral politics in India is considered in “Why Some Women Are Politically Active: The Household, Public Space, and Political Participation in India” forthcoming in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Research on the political economy of India has focused on the role of elites in economic reform. The Indian experience is compared to that of China in “Local Elites and Popular Support for Economic Reform in China and India” Comparative Political Studies, 2000 (with Samuel Eldersveld). The influence of firm ownership on firm performance is considered in a series of papers co-authored with Sumit Majumdar. One of them, entitled “State as Investor and State as Owner: Consequences for Firm Performance in India,” appeared in Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1998. Pradeep’s current research focuses on the every-day relationship of the state to the citizen in India. This research is based on a large sample survey conducted in India in 2001. An initial paper discussing the role of the state and voluntary associations is "Federal Arrangements and the Provision of Public Goods in India." He is beginning work on political parties and representation. |
 
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Pradeep Chhibber studies party systems, party aggregation, and the politics of India.
His research examines the relationship between social divisions and party competition and conditions that lead to the emergence of national or regional parties in a nation-state. Pradeep received an M.A. and an M.Phil. from the University of Delhi and a Ph.D. from UCLA. He is currently the Indo-American
Community Chair in India Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. View a