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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار

@saadgulzar.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Global Affairs, and Economics (concurrent) at Notre Dame. Study representation, development, and the environment with a focus on South Asia. saadgulzar.com

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
What an awesome lineup for our speaker series. @saadgulzar.bsky.social @na-wehl.bsky.social @marysanford.bsky.social ord.bsky.social Karolin Soontjens Femke Roosma @andrearuggeri.bsky.social @lchristensen.bsky.social Thank you, Maria and Jakob for organizing!
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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
📄 (Papers) Air Pollution Awareness in Africa / The Institutional Design of Environmental Control 📍 (Panel) Air Quality Governance - Fri, September 4, 10:00 to 11:30am EDT ✍️ (Authors) @melinaplatas.bsky.social / @saadgulzar.bsky.social & Mark Buntaine #APSA2026 #EGAPAPSA #APSA
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Rest in peace Glen Hansard. The best live performance by miles I was lucky enough to see twice (thanks NYU 💜)
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Given the air pollution in North America, it is worth thinking about the large health impacts on vulnerable populations. In our @nature.com paper @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social and I show that air pollution exposure in the sub continent significantly increases child and infant mortality.
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thank you, I'll look forward to it!
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'm on sabbatical this academic year visiting Bocconi, Milan (Sep-Dec '26) and LSE, London (Jan-June '27). Looking forward to meeting many old friends and colleagues and getting to know new ones!
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We close with open questions: when governments become responsive to environmental demands, how to coordinate across jurisdictions, the role of NGOs and citizen monitoring, organized interests, monitoring technology, and the coalitions that make conservation durable.
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Effective governance depends on institutions that align incentives, reduce information asymmetries, and match temporal horizons. These can arise in democracies, but also in autocracies.
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We argue that democracy is too coarse a category to explain environmental outcomes.What matters is whether institutions resolve nested principalagent problems in environmental governance: between citizens & politicians, central & local government, and politicians & bureaucrats
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We re-estimate the environmental Kuznets curve and its democratic variant (the DEKC) using satellite data on forest cover, PM2.5, and groundwater. We find little support for either. At best there is a weakly positive, linear association between democracy and the environment.
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New in the Annual Review of Political Science (2026), with @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social : "Democracy and the Environment." We survey decades of work asking whether democracy produces better environmental outcomes. Link to open access paper: doi.org/10.1146/annu...
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Democracy and the Environment
We survey research on the relationship between democracy and the environment. The first part of our review examines how democratic systems influence environmental outcomes. Scholars have found, at bes...
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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After Cosmic Crisp, Scientists Unveil an Apple for the Climate Change Era
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Upgrading Karachi’s electricity network from bare low-voltage wires to aerial bundled cables significantly reduced theft and feeder losses, leading to improved revenue recovery and fewer power outages. Read today's article to learn more:
Feeder level losses and revenue recovery pre- and post-conversion
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao) The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution static1.squarespace.com/static/59dc0...
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this week posted a video of himself in which he wore jeans in a hot tub, chugged a glass of whole milk and rode an exercise bike in a sauna. These activities were all performed shirtless and under the supervision of the musician Kid Rock."
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Bench Presses, Pull Ups … Kid Rock? The White House Had a Very Manly Week.
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I'm looking to hire an RA in Lahore for a project with @yasirkhan.bsky.social and Bakhtawar Ali. Please see details below.
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Periodic google search: “what sport is Super Bowl?”
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
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Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
When is India's National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6)- 2023-24 data being released?
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nicoblar.bsky.social @nicoblar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
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ISA-SAWP Colombo 2026: Call for Proposals
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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The complicated impacts of maternity leave garimasharma.com/files/matben...
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Sarah Brierley @sarahbrierley.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.
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Juan Felipe Ladino @jfladino1.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Thrilled to have presented our work with @saadgulzar.bsky.social and @juanfeliperiano.bsky.social "Pay-to-Play: Campaign Contributions and Long-term Distortions in Public Procurement" at the XLIII Political Institutions and Economic Policy Conference at Caltech piep.caltech.edu/selected-pap...
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted.
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
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California Center For Population Research @ccpratucla.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
UCLA CCPR Faculty Affiliate Professor Graeme Blair, co-director of the Deportation Data Project, highlights new ICE data showing federal crackdowns are arresting mostly immigrants with no criminal record — far more non-offenders than serious criminals. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 27/11/2025
Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings! Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk... Thread follows!
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Video: We Charted the Decline in International Students to the U.S.
The Upshot reporter Aatish Bhatia walks through a chart he created showing the decline, by country, of international students arriving to the United States this year.
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Very well said
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
POLLS ARE NOW OPEN. Find out where you early vote ⬇️ 🗳️ findmypollsite.vote.nyc
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
on.ft.com/4ovCLwn Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments Maguire… wrote that… Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.”
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Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments about Mamdani
Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about New York mayoral candidate
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
What's the book/article on to read on the farmers' movement 2020-21 in India?
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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75Hakeem Jeffries
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Suzan DelBene
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Very interesting spillover effects into other domains and within families! Congratulations!!
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
For instance, I recall that your own previous work showed (I hope I’m remembering correctly) that CP is basically European politics, with some sprinkles of work on Latin America.
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I worry that this argument assumes fixed selection into CP and AS. Why not (perhaps concurrently) broaden recruitment of area experts into CP? I think the separation will continue to encourage the terrible pipeline development we continue to see in many geographic areas of research. (1/2)
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I am curious so will try soon!
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
but why (would you think to do that)? 😅
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Just posted a new review paper I co-authored with @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social. It is prepared for the Annual Review of Political Science. Comments welcome! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ixtd6...
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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration” We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress. 🧵1/4
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Read the NYtimes piece then do yourself a favor and listen season 3 of this podcast open.spotify.com/episode/7qWV...
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Season 3, Episode 1: The Green Grass
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Did a Green Beret Unit Commit One of the Worst U.S. War Crimes in Decades?
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
FWIW I thought Adam Bonica had a good discussion in his Substack
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 27/09/2025
Przeworski says it cleanly, clearly, and convincingly. What then must we do? www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...
The Democratic establishment is clearly betting that Republicans will offer them an electoral victory while they attend the wedding parties of billionaires. The only vision for the Democratic Party originates from its left wing, which is vigorously censured by its mainstream. It may well be that the Democratic leadership is correct in thinking that the best strategy is to do nothing and waiting for MAGA to fail. But this, like MAGA, is a “back again” ideology, one of “restoring” democracy rather than transforming the conditions that generated the present disaster. To restore democracy, it needs to be reformed. This is the project we need.
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Britain, Australia and Canada Recognize a Palestinian State
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
If the eggs in the egg sandwich are not from Japan, this is going to fail!
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Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens?
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 16/09/2025
New UN Commission of Inquiry report reinforces the consensus among experts around Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. As the Israeli govt escalates its assault on Gaza City & destroys Gaza’s remaining civilian infrastructure, states have a duty under Genocide Convention to act.
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