Source Themes

Journal of Experimental Political Science (2021)
In an online survey experiment with a sample of almost 5,000 US respondents in May 2020, we find no evidence that either source cue or message framing influenced people’s responses to questions about the COVID-19 crisis. Instead, we found that ideology, type of media consumption, and age explained much of the survey response variation.

Indian Law Review (2019)
An empirical analysis of the workload of the Supreme Court of India using oral hearing time data from 2016. The analysis shows that the Supreme Court faces an unsustainable workload given existing resources and efficiency.

Studies in Indian Politics (2018)
A mixed methods case study of clientalism in Saharanpur in India. We show that it is the concentric nature of constituencies provided by the decentralized political structure which is ultimately responsible for the sustenance of intermediary networks as well as the perpetuation of clientelism in rural Saharanpur.