Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC (June 2012 March 2016) Associate, South Asia Program

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1 Dr. Milan Vaishnav Senior Associate Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC Web: Recent Employment Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC (April present) Senior Associate, South Asia Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC (June 2012 March 2016) Associate, South Asia Program Center for Global Development, Washington, DC (Fall Fall 2012) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Education Columbia University, New York, NY Ph.D., Political Science, May 2012 Dissertation: The Merits of Money and Muscle : Essays on Criminality, Democracy and Elections in India Advisors: Maria Victoria Murillo (chair), Macartan Humphreys, Devesh Kapur Columbia University, New York, NY M.Phil, Political Science, 2008 Comprehensive exams: Comparative Politics (with distinction); Quantitative Methods Columbia University, New York, NY M.A., Political Science, 2007 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA B.A. (summa cum laude), International Relations, 2002 Books When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press Rethinking Public Institutions in India, co-editor with Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta. New Delhi: Oxford University Press Short of the Goal: U.S. Policy Toward Poorly Performing States, co-editor with Nancy Birdsall and Robert Ayres. Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development. Publications 1

2 2017. Introduction (with Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta) and Election Commission of India, (with E. Sridharan) in Rethinking Public Institutions in India, edited by Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Milan Vaishnav. New Delhi: Oxford University Press Why Voters Sometimes Prefer Criminals as Candidates, Governance 29.4: The Indian Administrative Service Meets Big Data, with Saksham Khosla, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Paper (September) Exploiting Survey Data, with Neelanjan Sircar, Seminar 684 (August) India, with E. Sridharan in Checkbook Elections? Political Finance in Comparative Perspective, edited by Pippa Norris and Andrea Abel van Es. New York: Oxford University Press Does Good Economics Make for Good Politics? Evidence from Indian States, with Reedy Swanson, India Review 14.3: Corruption in India: Bridging Research Evidence and Policy Options, with Sandip Sukhtankar, India Policy Forum 11: Understanding the Indian Voter, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Paper (June) Review of Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss and Craig Jeffrey, India Today: Economics, Politics and Society, Political Science Quarterly 128.3: Review of Sumit Ganguly and Rahul Mukherji, India Since 1980, Studies in Indian Politics 1.1: Economic Constraints and Presidential Agency, with Maria Victoria Murillo and Virginia Oliveros in The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, edited by Steven Levitsky and Kenneth Roberts (Johns Hopkins University Press) Electoral Revolution or Democratic Alternation? with Maria Victoria Murillo and Virginia Oliveros, Latin American Research Review 45.3: A Mismatch with Consequences: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Security-Development Nexus, with Jeremy Weinstein in Short of the Goal: U.S. Policy Toward Poorly Performing States. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development Reforming U.S. Development Policy: Four Critical Fixes, with Nancy Birdsall and Stewart Patrick in Power and Superpower: Global Leadership in the 21st Century, edited by Morton Halperin et al. New York: The Century Foundation Education and the MDGs: Realizing the Millennium Compact, with Nancy Birdsall. Journal of International Affairs 58(2): Poverty and the Social Sectors: The World Bank in Pakistan, , with Nancy Birdsall and Adeel Malik, prepared for the World Bank Operations Evaluation Department. Washington, DC: World Bank. 2

3 2004. Afghanistan: The Chimera of the Light Footprint in Winning the Peace: An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction, edited by Robert Orr. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies Sierra Leone: Making Multilateralism Work, with Bathsheba Crocker in Winning the Peace: An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction, edited by Robert Orr. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies Getting to Home Plate: Why Smarter Debt Relief Matters for the Millennium Development Goals, with Nancy Birdsall, prepared for the Helsinki Process (March). In Progress/Forthcoming Under review. Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance, with Devesh Kapur [Paper previously circulated as Quid Pro Quo: Builders, Politicians and Election Finance in India, Center for Global Development Working Paper 276.] Under review. Ethnic Identifiability: Results from a Survey of Indian Voters Digital India? An Experiment with Indian Legislators, with Saksham Khosla, Aidan Milliff, and Rachel Osnos Does Higher Turnout Hurt Incumbents? An Analysis of State Elections in India, with Johnathan Guy Core or Swing? The Role of Electoral Context in Shaping Pork Barrel, with Neelanjan Sircar Popular Commentary President Trump s Question Marks Extend to India, NDTV, November 9, 2016 BJP s Five-Layer Cake Strategy in Uttar Pradesh, Mint, November 7, 2016 Politician-Bureaucrat Ties Far More Complicated Than Perceived, (with Saksham Khosla) Hindustan Times, September 22, 2016 IAS Reforms: Cleaning Rust From the Frame, (with Saksham Khosla) Mint, September 12, 2016 India s Taxing Tax System, Foreign Affairs, August 15, 2016 Modinomics at Two, Foreign Affairs, March 8, 2016 PM s Known Unknowns, Indian Express, December 30, 2015 Modi s Reform Agenda: Change You Can Believe In? Bertelsmann Foundation, November 24, 2015 How the BJP Lost Bihar, Foreign Affairs, November 11, 2015 How Narendra Modi s Bihar Defeat Will Hit Reforms Agend, BBC, November 9,

4 Battle for Bihar, (with Saksham Khosla) Carnegie Endowment, September 30, 2015 Tackling Corruption in India, (with Sandip Sukhtankar, Mint, September 16, 2015 Where Are the Jobs Going to Come From? Rediff, July 20, 2015 Modi is Taking a Big Risk, Rediff, July 15, 2015 What Makes the Indian Voter Tick, Mint, July 6, 2015 Narendra Modi s One Year Ledger, (with Suyash Rai) Mint, May 24, 2015 One Year Into Modi Sarkar: New Rules for Indian Politics, Policy Wonks, May 19, 2015 Why a Congress-mukt Bharat Would Be Bad for BJP, Indian Express, April 7, 2015 Unsafe After Sunset, (with Neelanjan Sircar) The Hindu, February 28, 2015 A Rumble in Delhi, Foreign Affairs, February 11, 2015 The Resilience of Briefcase Politics, (with E. Sridharan) Indian Express, February 4, 2015 How Representative are India s MPs? (with Alec Sugarman) Mint, January 26, 2015 No Big Ideas in India-US Relations and That s OK, Mint, January 23, 2015 Being Middle Class in India, (with Devesh Kapur) The Hindu, December 9, 2014 Pro-Business of Pro-Consumer, (with Suyash Rai) Mint, October 13, 2014 What Kind of Reformer Will Narendra Modi Be, (with Suyash Rai) Mint, September 22, 2014 The Politics and Plumbing of Reforms, (with Suyash Rai) Mint, July 28, 2014 A New Era in Indian Politics? (with Danielle Smogard) Carnegie Endowment, June 10, Strengthening India s Rule of Law (with Devesh Kapur), Mint, May 27, 2014 India s Congress Party: Down but Not Yet Out, BBC News, May 17, 2014 A Devil Called Policy Paralysis, (with Danielle Smogard) India Today, May 17, 2014 Election Results 2014: BJP Landslide Shatters Four Electoral Myths, Times of India, May 17, 2014 Indians Expect an Economic Superman, Bloomberg View, May 12, 2014 India s Price of Victory, New York Times, May 9,

5 The Rural/Urban Divide Dies Out, (with Neelanjan Sircar) Financial Times, March 23, Percent of Indians Have No Problems Supporting Dynastic Candidates, (with Devesh Kapur and Neelanjan Sircar) Times of India, March 23, 2014 Growth Is No. 1 Poll Issue for Voters, Survey Shows, (with Devesh Kapur and Neelanjan Sircar) Times of India, March 16, 2014 NDA Makes Gains With Urban, OBC Voters, (with Devesh Kapur and Neelanjan Sircar) Times of India, March 9, 2014 India Election: Is There a Surge of Support for Narendra Modi? BBC News, February 25, 2014 The Myths of India s Rising Regional Parties, CNN, February 18, 2014 Empty Economics, Foreign Affairs, February 12, 2014 Crime but No Punishment in Indian Elections, Carnegie Endowment, January 24, 2014 (reprinted in the Times of India) Does Good Economics Mean Good Politics in India? (with Reedy Swanson) Carnegie Endowment, December 19, 2013 (reprinted in the Times of India) The Year of the Voter in South Asia, (with Frederic Grare) Carnegie Endowment, December 16, 2013 A New Party, A More Engaged Class, Indian Express, December 12, 2013 The Complicated Rise of India s Regional Parties, Carnegie Endowment, November 13, 2013 (reprinted in the Times of India) Two Theories About Gold, (with Devesh Kapur, Marla Spivack, and Arvind Subramanian) Business Standard, November 6, 2013 The Modi Debate Worth Having in India, Carnegie Endowment, October 9, 2013 (reprinted in the Times of India) Five Trends Shaping India s Voting Landscape, Carnegie Endowment, September 10, 2013 (reprinted in the Times of India) A Trickle of Small Victories, Indian Express, July 15, 2013 Elections in India: The Errors Voters Make, India in Transition, June 17, 2013 (reprinted in Hindu Business Line) Is Modi the Answer for India s Opposition, CNN, June 14, 2013 Party in the Dock, (with Christophe Jaffrelot) Indian Express, May 9, 2013 The Demand for Criminal Politicians, Oxford India Society, May 1,

6 India Needs More Democracy, Not Less, Foreign Affairs, April 11, 2013 Capitol Hill to Raisina Hill, Indian Express, March 14, 2013 A More Equal Union, Caravan, March 1, 2013 Talking Democracy in India, Foreign Affairs, January 15, 2013 After the Mourning in India, CNN, December 31, 2012 The Generation Gap of Governance, (with Reedy Swanson) Indian Express, November 14, 2012 Five Truths About India, Carnegie Endowment, November 3, 2012 Builders, Politics, Friends Forever? (with Devesh Kapur) Business Standard, October 30, 2012 Resizing the State: What if the Indian State is Actually Not Big Enough? Caravan, October 1, 2012 Not So Great Expectations, (with Nancy Birdsall and Daniel Cutherell) Foreign Affairs, August 20, 2012 Making KLB Effective, (with Nancy Birdsall and Daniel Cutherell) Dawn, August 11, 2012 India s Very Political Power Crisis, CNN, August 3, 2012 Washington s Civilian Shortcomings in Pakistan, Carnegie Endowment, July 31, 2012 The Market for India s Criminal Politicians, India in Transition, February 14, 2012 (reprinted in Hindu Business Line) Media Appearances Charlie Rose Show, National Public Radio s All Things Considered, To the Point, BBC NewsHour, Monocle Radio, Bloomberg, Bloomberg India, CNBC-India, CCTV, NDTV, ET Now, TimesNow, NewsX Teaching Experience Topics on India s Political Economy (2014-present, Foreign Service Institute, occasional lecturer) Corruption, Criminality and Money Politics (Spring 2011, Georgetown University, graduate course) Political Economy of Development (Spring 2010, George Washington University, undergraduate course) Conceptual Foundations of International Politics (Fall 2008, Columbia University, graduate course) Honors and Awards John C. Hurford Foundation grant for project on Indian Political Economy (January-December 2016) 6

7 Carnegie Corporation of New York grant for project on India s State Capacity (September 2015-March 2017) Smith Richardson Foundation grant for project on Grand Corruption in India s Democracy (August March 2015) National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (SES ; co-pi with Maria Victoria Murillo, ) CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research) Doctoral Research Grant, Columbia University, Summer 2009 Earth Institute Grant, Columbia University, Summer 2009 Cordier Fellowship, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship, Columbia University, Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies Summer Fellowship, Columbia University, 2006 Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University, Co-Valedictorian, International Relations Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2002 Dean s List, University of Pennsylvania, Presentations and Conferences The Indian Administrative Service Meets Big Data Carnegie India, October 2016 IDFC Institute, October 2016 Political Finance in India, Carnegie Endowment Workshop on Rethinking Electoral Politics in India, September 2016 Quid Pro Quo: Builders, Politicians and Election Finance in India Midwest Political Science Association, April 2012 Carnegie Endowment-University of Pennsylvania Workshop on Political Finance in India, June 2016 Modinomics at Two: Is It Working for India and Her Citizens? American Enterprise Institute, May 2016 IDFC Institute Dialogues (in conjunction with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), March 2016 Can Laws Curb Corruption in India? Virginia Journal of International Law Annual Symposium, February 2016 Assessing the Progress and Promise of Economic Reform in India, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December

8 Understanding Bihar s 2015 Election London School of Economics and Political Science South Asia Centre, November 2015 Harvard South Asia Institute, October 2015 Narendra Modi s India, Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, October Modi Returns to the United States, Brookings Institute, September 2015 New Rules for Indian Politics, IDFC Institute, June 2015 Modi s India: Change You Can Believe In? Foreign Policy Association Off the Record series, May 2015 Albuquerque International Association, January 2015 Elections 2014: Has Politics Changed Forever? MIT India Conference, May 2015 Money and Muscle in Indian Politics World Bank 1818 Society, April 2015 Brown University Gilded Ages Seminar, March 2014 Brookings India-University of Chicago, March 2014 Johns Hopkins-SAIS, December 2013 Centre for Policy Research, November 2012 Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, June 2011 Is Modi an Economic Reformer, AEI Google Hangout, April 2015 The Indian Voter in 2014 Brown-Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics, March 2015 Yale South Asia Colloquium, November 2014 Yale-National University of Singapore, March 2014 Carnegie Endowment, March 2014 Asia Society Mumbai, March 2014 CASI Political Economy of India workshop, June 2014 Can Obama s visit to New Delhi revive US-India relations? AEI Google Hangout, January 2015 Corruption, Crime and Terrorism, Carnegie Endowment, October 2014 Ignorant Voters or Credible Representatives? Why voters support criminal politicians in India American Political Science Association meeting, September 2014 Midwest Political Science Association meeting, April 2015 Midwest Political Science Association meeting, April 2014 University of Pennsylvania Comparative Politics seminar, April 2015 US-India Relations, Georgetown University, September

9 The first 100 days of the new Indian government review and outlook, Bertelesmann Stiftung, September 2014 Getting India Back on Track, Carnegie Endowment, June 2014 The Results of India s 2014 General Election, Brookings Institute, May 2014 A Billion Votes: Making Sense of India s 2014 General Election, Roosevelt House at Hunter College, May 2014 India s 2014 Elections JP Morgan US Investor Seminar, April 2014 JP Morgan Emerging Markets Asia Conference, March 2014 India s 2014 General Election: A Preview, Brookings Institute, April 2014 Can India's Broken Governance be Fixed to Restart its Economic Miracle? Asia Society New York, February 2014 Trends, Actors, and Factors in India's 2014 Elections, Atlantic Council, January 2014 Recent Political Developments in India: The Other Leadership Transition, Brookings Institute, February 2013 Does Good Economics Make for Good Politics? PRS India, December 2013 Princeton India 2030 conference, October 2013 Confronting Corruption in India, Carnegie Endowment, September 2013 Election Commission of India, Bellagio Conference on Building an Indian State for the 21 st Century, July 2013 Ethnic Identifiability: Evidence from a Survey of Indian Voters Midwest Political Science Association, April 2013 Midwest Political Science Association, April 2012 Previous Work Experience Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Spring 2011) Adjunct Professor for graduate seminar on corruption, criminality and money politics The Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, DC (Spring 2010) Adjunct Professor for undergraduate seminar on the political economy of development Columbia University, New York, NY ( ) Teaching Fellow for courses on international affairs, comparative politics, and U.S. foreign policy Columbia University, New York, NY ( ) 9

10 Research Assistant to Professor Maria Victoria Murillo for project on privatization and regulation in Latin America Center for Global Development, Washington, DC (Fall 2003-Fall 2005) Special Assistant to President Nancy Birdsall Research Assistant to Jeremy Weinstein Consultant to World Bank evaluation of social sector assistance to Pakistan Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC (Spring 2003-Fall 2003) Program Coordinator and Special Assistant to Washington Director Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, DC (Summer 2002-Spring 2003) Research Assistant for Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project Past Affiliations Visiting Senior Associate, Center for Global Development, Consultant, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Scholar, Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, Summer 2009 Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, Summer 2008 Consultant, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, Professional Activities Co-Convener, Annual Workshop on Indian Political Economy, Founder, DC India Politics Workshop, Other Languages: English, Hindi Citizenship: United States of America References Ashley Tellis Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Devesh Kapur Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania 10

11 Nancy Birdsall President, Center for Global Development Maria Victoria Murillo Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University 11