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Tanushree Goyal
Tanushree Goyal is a doctoral candidate in comparative government at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Before beginning her Ph.D. programme, Tanushree completed her first degree in computer science and engineering in New Delhi, and a second (research) Master's degree in politics at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her research interests include questions of democratic accountability, state capacity and the political economy of development, with a focus on South Asia.
In her Ph.D. research, she examines how within-party politics influences the allocation of bureaucratic capacity, and shapes public goods provision across regions within India. In another ongoing project, she analyses how new parties organise themselves by studying the unusual and fast-paced rise of the urban anti-corruption party, the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) in India. This research based on her Master's thesis builds on several years of fieldwork and engagement with the AAP since the party’s formation. In several other ongoing papers, she examines problems of democratic accountability, such as, vote buying, corruption, and political selection, with a geographical interest in South Asia. In all these projects, she combines evidence from quantitative analysis with in-depth fieldwork.
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क्या ग्रामीण भारत में सड़कों से वोट मिलते हैं?
भारत में 2001 में जिन गांवों में पक्की सड़क नहीं थी, ऐसे दो-तिहाई से भी अधिक गांवों को एक बड़े पैमाने के ग्रामीण सड़क कार्यक्रम के तहत सड़कें उपलब्ध कराई गई हैं। क्या कनेक्टिविटी और कल्याण में इन सुधारों के लिए नागरिक चुनावों में सत्ताधारी सरकारों को पुरस्कृत करते हैं? चुनावों और सड़कों के प्रावधान के 2000 से 2017 तक के आंकड़ों का उपयोग करके इस लेख में बताया गया है कि नीति के प्रावधान के बारे में अच्छी जानकारी होने के बाद भी नागरिक नीति के आधार पर मतदान नहीं करते हैं।
Do roads bring votes in rural India?
A large-scale rural roads programme in India has provided access to over two-third of villages that lacked a paved road in 2001. Do citizens reward incumbent governments electorally for these improvements in connectivity and well-being? Using data from elections and roads provision for 2000-2017, the article suggests that citizens do not vote on the basis of policy even when they have access to rich information about the policy’s provision.
The power of enforcement: State capacity and child marriage in India
In an attempt to deter child marriage, a recent Supreme Court verdict has criminalised sexual relations between a man and minor wife. Worldwide, more than 700 million women alive today were married before their 18th birthday, and one in three child brides are in India. Analysing data from the India Human Development Survey, this article demonstrates that strong State capacity can play a significant role in reducing child marriage.