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Francesca R. Jensenius

University of Oslo and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
fj@nupi.no

Francesca R. Jensenius is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo and a Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). She specialises in comparative politics and comparative political economy, with a focus on India, and is the author of the book Social Justice through Inclusion: The Consequences of Electoral Quotas in India published by the Oxford University Press in 2017. 

 

Posts by Francesca R. Jensenius

India’s ‘missing girls’: Women’s education and declining child sex-ratios

Although women’s education has been proposed as a solution to the persistent issue of ‘missing girls’ in India, studies have reached contradictory conclusions on the impact of female education o...

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Caste quotas in politics and development outcomes

To guarantee the political inclusion of the historically marginalised groups, electoral quotas have been in place for them in India since 1950. Analysing the constituency-level impact of quotas for S...

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