Reposted by Tanu KumarCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 09/09/2026Building Social Mobility by Tanu Kumar wins the APSA Francine Frankel Best Book Award. Congratulations! cup.org/3UGgx19 #APSA2026 #SouthAsianPolitics #PolSky 142
Reposted by Tanu KumarCenter for Effective Global Action @cega-uc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025How can housing subsidies change the trajectory of beneficiaries’ lives? CEGA faculty affiliate @tanukumar.com’s new book explores how subsidized home ownership in India shapes beneficiaries’ economic, social, and political behavior. Learn more: go.cega.org/buildingsocialmobilitygo.cega.orgBuilding Social MobilityCambridge Core - South Asian Government, Politics and Policy - Building Social Mobility 011
Reposted by Tanu KumarCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 14/08/2025"... shows how a different form of public policy-subsidized home ownership-can transform poor people's lives by bolstering not just wealth but also agency and civic participation." 'Building Social Mobility' by @tanukumar.com. Coming Soon - 📚 cup.org/3Hu4o9k 📚 053
Reposted by Tanu KumarDeshdeep Dhankhar @deshdeep.bsky.social · 02/07/2025The new paper from Adam Auerbach & @tanukumar.com, challenges the conventional understanding of urban peripheries as neglected zones & demonstrates them as crucial sites of negotiation, innovation & contestation. Indeed, future of urban India can't be shaped just in city centres but at their edges.doi.orgPolitics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s CitiesABSTRACT Some privately developed neighborhoods on the outskirts of India’s cities are formalized by urban authorities while others are not. What explains this uneven formalization and what are its... 172
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 26/06/2025To what extent do we think he’s still using the same strategy…??? 010
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 26/06/2025Are primaries and general elections different, and primaries in places where the general will be competitive? 000
Reposted by Tanu KumarBhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Really grateful to be receiving McCourt's Tech & Public Policy grant---with @tanukumar.com and @gabikw.bsky.social---to study how citizen-generated information influences civic action for governance in India! Other fantastic projects funded here: mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/tech-pu...mccourt.georgetown.eduTech & Public Policy program awards $1.5M in grants to 24 Georgetown researchers - McCourt School of Public PolicyTech & Public Policy program awards $1.5M in grants to support research in AI, digital governance and ethics of emerging technologies. 062
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 07/03/2025I'll be starting at the World Bank as a Governance Specialist in the Public Institutions and Data Analytics Unit in May. Excited to work with a great team on important work, and to be back in my hometown is a dream. Thanks to everyone at CGU for all you've taught me. 2160
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 31/01/2025My book, Building Social Mobility is available for preorder! shorturl.at/jlgQv 170
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 06/01/2025Hello! I work in development, studying governance from the perspective of local officials and citizen interactions. Focus on India. Thanks for highlighting all of this cool work! 030
Reposted by Tanu Kumar👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 31/12/2024In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change 611740509
Reposted by Tanu KumarSansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 14/07/2024"We are attempting to survive our time, so we may live into yours." 121292415
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 19/12/2024ICYMI Ryan Atwood from the OC wrote a bestselling book on crypto www.amazon.com/Easy-Money-C...amazon.comEasy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of FraudAmazon.com: Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud: 9781419766398: McKenzie, Ben, Silverman, Jacob: Books 020
Reposted by Tanu KumarAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024You know it’s bad when even Trump is pity posting through it 💀 1854379092125
Reposted by Tanu KumarGovernance and Local Development Institute @gldinstitute.bsky.social · 09/12/2024How can citizens drive accountability in resource-strained bureaucracies? 🌍 GLD Policy Brief No.26 explores how community efforts, empathy, and mobilization improve service delivery in rural India. Read the brief to learn more! bit.ly/4feVFm1 By Gabi Kruks-Wisner, @tanukumar.com, Jessica Mayberry. 031
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 07/12/2024we'd really be able to boost our leverage of franklin pierce and longfellow 100
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 06/12/2024i bet uc berkeley goes way down once school size is accounted for 220
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 05/12/2024Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets. Interstellar Michael Kaine 010
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 02/12/2024Policy brief on my work with Gabi Kruks-Wisner and Video Volunteers on how citizens can demand responsiveness from bureaucrats who are overburdened and not formally accountable to them: gld.gu.se/en/publicati...gld.gu.seGLDWhy are some communities able to provide secure environments, good education, adequate healthcare, and other factors that promote human development, while others fail to do so? 000
Reposted by Tanu KumarMathias Poertner @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/us/universit... A brief summary: 1/n 1115542
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 26/11/2024theprint.in/ground-repor...theprint.inYoung Bihari women are India’s brave new coders. Bengaluru is their dreamAs the women work on their coding tasks at the residential school, the trainer plays music from her phone to keep the atmosphere lively. Only English pop—to help them learn the language. 032
Reposted by Tanu KumarChristopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 14/11/2024You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇. t.co/aJ0SOwyCge 02830
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 13/11/2024yes but who will have their starter packs followed and who gets on them 000
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 13/11/2024Love how in lotr people are like “be back with the other fighters in two days” and correctly estimate so people are always in time for the war 010
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 12/11/2024can someone explain to me how relying on starter packs to discover people to follow is different from pre-twitter forms of information dissemination where it was hard for people not central in networks to be seen? 283
Reposted by Tanu KumarJohannes Boehm @johannesmboehm.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Great paper showing how flood risk information affects housing choices. Connects well with our finding (w/ Balboni, Waseem: jmboehm.github.io/Pakistan_Flo...) that agents are imperfectly informed about flood risks. Clear evidence that better information can help adaptation to climate risks.jmboehm.github.io 062
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 10/11/2024Also important: how much the relative wealth of the bottom 50% increased 2016-2020 020
Reposted by Tanu KumarDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Seems important: a policy to remove undocumented migrants reduced not just their employment, but also those of citizens. 513050
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 10/11/2024Some casual shocking stats on wealth inequality in the US. Today, bottom 50% holds 2.5 percent of wealth compared to top .1% holding 13.5, top 1% holding almost 30%. www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...federalreserve.govThe Fed - Table: Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989 The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC. 131
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 08/11/2024Policies to assist with homeownership give access to an important asset and also improve status. I show this in my book in India, with applications elsewhere too. Read a sample and my chapter on dignity here: t.co/lqLmCHSDqdt.cohttps://tanukumar.com/Book/ 011
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 08/11/2024which policies build enduring social mobility? My take: those that 1) give beneficiaries a sense of agency and control and 2) not only improve econ. outcomes, but social status as well. Most welfare policies do not do 1, and virtually none do 2. Exception: housing (1/2) 121
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 07/11/2024Perhaps suggestions that unpopularity can extend to an entire party? Either because people mentally equate parties and candidates or because the platform/vision itself is unpopular. 000
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 11/10/2024perennial plea to APSA/MPSA/SPSA to consider adding someone with expertise outside the US and Europe to the editorial boards of the APSR/AJPS/JOP, our discipline's top general interest journals. 021
