Anjali Thomas is an Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology) in Atlanta, Georgia. She specializes in comparative politics and political economy with a focus on India. The substantive questions that drive her current research have to do with the politics of public service provision, local and multi-level governance, gender disparities, and distributive politics. Anjali is the author of Democratization from Above: The Logic of Local Democracy in the Developing World, published with Cambridge University Press (2016). Her recent articles have been published in The American Journal of Political Science (x2), The British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Research Quarterly. Her major ongoing projects focus on the pathways through which citizens gain formalized access to services and on the role of state actors in shaping citizens’ pro-developmental attitudes and behaviors.

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