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Chitralekha Basu

@chitbazoo.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of Empirical Democratic Theory, University of Cologne. 🇮🇳 🇸🇬 🇬🇧 www.chitralekhabasu.com

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Chitralekha Basu @chitbazoo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A few weeks ago, while shepherding two small kids out of a park, I was unexpectedly informed that I & Matthew Knowles @cityeconomics.bsky.social (also father of said kids) had been awarded the Elinor Ostrom prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Theoretical Politics in 2025! 🧵👇 (1/7)

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Chitralekha Basu @chitbazoo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

1. In line with expectations, we find that support for democratization was partisan, not consensual. (8/10)

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Chitralekha Basu @chitbazoo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Building on Bateman et al. (2017), we develop an imputation procedure that allows us to interpret MPs' ideal points in terms of % men enfranchised. (7/10)

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Chitralekha Basu @chitbazoo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📢 Thrilled to finally see this out after almost a decade's work! Now in @worldpolitics.bsky.social (w/ @cboix.bsky.social, Sonia Giurumescu & Paulo Serôdio). 🧵👇

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Chitralekha Basu @chitbazoo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

See below vs. last local election results for the borough en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Ri...

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Chitralekha Basu @chitbazoo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Ri... vs.

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Chitralekha Basu @chitbazoo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"AfD advances in the poorest parts of the west (FT)" -- I see this framing a lot, and I just don't get it. AFAICS, the AfD's list vote in wide swathes of (as far as I know, affluent?) Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria is comparable to, if not higher than, its vote in the Ruhr?

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Chitralekha Basu @chitbazoo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My impression is it varies within Germany too. Terrible in NRW. Have rarely been on a DB train that was delayed less than 30 mins in the last five years. Sign boards like this a routine experience in Köln. Have heard it’s better near Berlin…

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