Research Expertise and Interest

political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India

Research Description

Pradeep Chhibber studies the political parties, party systems, representation, and the politics of South Asia. He has written Righteous Demagogues: Populist Politics in South Asia and Beyond, Oxford University Press, 2024 (with Adnan Naseemullah); India Tomorrow: Conversations with Next Generation Leaders, Oxford University Press, 2020 (with Harsh Shah); Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party System of India, Oxford University Press, 2018 (with Rahul Verma);  Religious Practice and Democracy in India, Cambridge University Press, 2014 (with Sandeep Shastri); The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Britain, Canada, India, and the U.S., Princeton University Press, 2004 (with Ken Kollman); and Democracy without Association: Transformation of Party Systems and Social Cleavages in India, University of Michigan Press 1999. 

Pradeep is the Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.