aditya dasgupta

Aditya Dasgupta, Ph.D.

  • Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Asia, 2016-17
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Biography

Aditya Dasgupta is a 2016-17 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Asia. He completed his PhD in the Department of Government at Harvard in May 2016. His book project, The Curse of Strong Roots: Pathways of Dominant Party Collapse and Resilience in India, investigates why dominant parties sometimes collapse but in other cases remain competitive after democratization, highlighting the role of an "organizational resource curse."