Adam Auerbach is an Associate Professor in the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on local governance, urban politics, and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on South Asia and India in particular. He is the author of Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and co-author of Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness (Princeton University Press, 2023). During the 2022-2023 academic year, Auerbach was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the World Bank.

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