Professor

Office: 1718A HW
Phone: 212-772-5503
Email:robert.jenkins@hunter.cuny.edu

Office Hours (Spring 2009)
Tuesday/Friday: 10:00 - 11:00 AM

• Politics and Political Economy of Contemporary India
• Domestic Coalitions
• Trade Policy
• Economic Liberalizaton
• Movements against Corruption
• New Forms of Federalism
• Electoral Politics
• Governance Reform in Developing Countries (particularly as relates to the construction of non-traditional accounting systems)
• Politics of International Development Assistance
• Shifts in Channels through which Aid is Distributed
• Reform of Multi-Lateral Institutions (particularly the World Trade Organization and the United Nations post-conflict reconstruction and state-building apparatus)

• PolSc 272.21: Democracy and Development
• PolSc 272.22: Politics of India since Independence

Education:
Ph.D. Sussex
B.A. Harvard

• Reinventing Accountability: Making Democracy Work for Human Development (London: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2005), co-authored with Anne Marie Goetz.
• Democratic Politics and Reform in India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
• Reassessing the Commonwealth (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs/Chatham House, 1997).
• Where Development Meets History, Special Issue (vol. 44, no. 1) of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (Taylor and Francis, 2006), sole editor.
• Regional Reflections: Comparing Politics Across India's States (Oxford University Press, 2004), sole editor.
• The Politics of India's Next Generation of Economic Reforms, Special Issue of India Review (Washington, DC), vol. 3, no. 2 (2004), co-edited with Sunil Khilnani.