Bharatee Bhusana Dash | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University

Bharatee Bhusana Dash

Associate Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for the Study of the World Economy

School of International Studies

Room No

324, SIS-I

bharateedash[at]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, bharatee.dash[at]gmail[dot]com

Personal Webpage

https://sites.google.com/view/bharateebhusanadasheconomics/home

Qualifications

Ph.D. (Economics)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Political Economy of Development, Public Economics, Indian Economic Development

Experience

September 2023 – Present: Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of the World Economy, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

July 2022 – September 2023: Associate Professor, Xavier University.

June 2018 – June 2022: Assistant Professor, Xavier University.

March 2014 – June 2018: Assistant Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.

June 2011 – March 2014: Economist, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.

Awards & Honours

Shastri Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2016-17 (School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa)

Visiting Scholar (Research), Canada-India Centre, Carleton University, Ottawa, 2014

International Collaboration/Consultancy

What is the quality of governance across Indian states, and does it matter? (With Stanley L. Winer, J. Stephen Ferris, and Pinaki Chakraborty). Sponsors: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada (Grant period: June 2013 – May 2015).

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Political competitiveness and the private–public structure of public expenditure: a model and empirics for the Indian States (with Stanley L. Winer, J. Stephen Ferris and Pinaki Chakraborty), International Tax and Public Finance, 28(6): 1430-1471, 2021.
Economic performance and electoral volatility: Testing the economic voting hypothesis on Indian states, 1957–2013 (with J. Stephen Ferris), Party Politics, 27(6): 1105-1119, 2021.
The measurement of electoral competition, with application to Indian states (with J. Stephen Ferris and Stanley L. Winer), Electoral Studies, 62 (102070), 2019.
Expenditure visibility and voter memory: a compositional approach to the political budget cycle in Indian states, 1959–2012 (with J. Stephen Ferris), Economics of Governance, 20(2): 129-157, 2019.
Political competition and human development: Evidence from the Indian states (with Sacchidananda Mukherjee), Journal of Development Studies, 51(1): 1-14, 2015.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Between election rivalry and the agency costs of government: the effectiveness of party competition across Indian States, 1957 – 2018 (with J. Stephen Ferris), Public Finance Review, 52 (3): 314-344, 2024.
On the measurement of electoral volatility (with Sandip Sarkar), Mathematical Social Sciences, 126: 119-128, 2023.
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states (with J. Stephen Ferris and Marcel-Cristian Voia), Public Choice, 194 (3-4): 325-346, 2023.
On the structure of the political party system in Indian states, 1957–2018 (with J. Stephen Ferris), Constitutional Political Economy, 34 (1): 1-35, 2023.
Does a swing voter model with voter turnout reflect the closeness of Indian state elections: 1957 – 2018? (with J. Stephen Ferris), Applied Economics, 55 (6): 594-602, 2023.

Patents (if any)