Alexander Lee
Associate Professor of Political Science. South Asia, Historical Political Economy, blueberries.
- A lot has been written on the causes of polarization, but Avidit Acharya, Theo Serlin and I wanted to ask a different question: How Polarization *Ends* Paper link and 🧵 tinyurl.com/jp2pk4rt 1/10
- Congratulations to @simonchauchard.bsky.social, @sumitra.bsky.social, and Niloufer Siddiqui, who received the 2025 Rajni Kothari Award for best paper on South Asian Politics for "Misinformation and support for vigilantism: An experiment in India and Pakistan" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Do you have a recently published book or article on South Asia? Submit your work for the APSA South Asian section prizes! Details below.
- The @apsa.bsky.social South Asian Politics Section is soliciting nominations for the Frankel Prize for best book (last two years) and Kothari Prize for best article (past year). Self nominations are fine. The deadline for both prizes is February 1st. Submission details below.
- Reupping a post that got lost in the holidays: The South Asian politics section of APSA now has prizes for best book and best article on South Asia. Please nominate work you admire (even your own).
- The South Asian Politics section of APSA would like to announce two new prizes. Please send nominations (including self-nominations) to the committee by February 1st. If you’re the author of a book, you can ask your editor to send copies.