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Alyssa Heinze

@alyssarheinze.bsky.social
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Postdoc @ Stanford King Center on Global Development/Assistant Professor of Political Science UC-Davis (2027). PhD UC-Berkeley. alyssaheinze.github.io

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Alyssa Heinze @alyssarheinze.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Excited that our paper is accepted at LSQ! One might have expected COVID to expand women legislators' influence, given domain expertise in health. Instead, male leaders reframed the crisis around issues where they hold authority. A case of male elite adaptation, here in the context of crisis.
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Alyssa Heinze @alyssarheinze.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We are looking for a full-time Research Manager based in Hyderabad! Please apply/share with your networks! tinyurl.com/telanganaRM
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Research Manager_Peer Mentorship Project.docx
RESEARCH MANAGER POSITION Project: “Training Elected Women Representatives on Ecological Commons” Lead Researchers Dr. Rachel Brulé (Boston University, USA) Dr. Bhumi Purohit (Georgetown University...
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Alyssa Heinze @alyssarheinze.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Graduated! + So indebted to my family, friends, and advisors at Berkeley for their support. Very excited to join Stanford's King Center on Global Development for a postdoc (26-27) before starting at the University of California, Davis as an Assistant Professor of Political Science in 2027! 🌲💛💙
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Alyssa Heinze @alyssarheinze.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Attending EPSS + researching South Asia? Apply before May 13th to attend the pre-conference workshop!!
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Alyssa Heinze @alyssarheinze.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We are organizing a pre-conference workshop at EPSS on the Politics of South Asia. To present, discuss, or attend, please submit your info by May 13th: forms.gle/pXaKtTLifJAY... Please circulate widely! If questions, contact me, @aliz-toth.bsky.social or @simonchauchard.bsky.social!
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Alyssa Heinze @alyssarheinze.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Thrilled that this is out at the APSR! 😀 I document how male elites creatively adapt to electoral reform in Indian village councils. Relevant for how we think about: 1) limits of reforms meant to equalize power, 2) (male) elite capture, 3) the "proxy" representative debate. A (late) 🧵
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
New study finds the current heat wave in the West would be "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate pollution. We're on the verge of breaking an all-time March heat record for the US today/tmrw. www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/w...
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The US is on the verge of an all-time heat record for March. Yes, it’s climate change. | CNN
The impending US heat record is an alarming signal of how hot the planet is getting and how fast it’s happening.
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Tiffany Barnes @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
New article out in World Development! 🚨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (ungated if u click now) With Rachel Brulé and @alyssarheinze.bsky.social, we explain and document some of the paradoxical (and actually inequality-building) consequences of India´s extensive gender quota system.
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Inclusive reforms as levers for social exclusion: The paradoxical consequences of quotas for women in rural India
Why do radical institutional changes to democratize who accesses power fail to change who realizes power in practice? We argue that disjunctures betwe…
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Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We wrote on the topic of proxyism and (male) elite capture in rural Indian for the @thejop.bsky.social blog! (with @alyssarheinze.bsky.social & Rachel Brulé) See post here: ubwp.buffalo.edu/jopblog/ Full article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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The Journal of Politics Blog – Southern Political Science Association
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