Professor

Office:  1703 Hunter West Bldg
Email:  robert.jenkins@hunter.cuny.edu
Office Hours:  By appointment.

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Recently Published

• Politics and the Right to Work: India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Oxford University Press, 2017) - co-authored with James Manor
• "The Judiciary and India's Democracy," National Herald (Delhi), 26 July 2017
• "India's Costly Embrace of Israel," The Diplomat, 3 July 2017
• "India's Democracy: Ill but Not Illiberal," Washington Post, op-ed, 31 March 2017
• "Democracy and the Political Durability of Social and Economic Rights in India: Electoral Outcomes and the Fate of Recently Adopted Legislation in India," in P. Burnell, L. Rakner, and V Randall (eds), Politics in the Developing World, 5th Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), online resource center "think piece"
• "Regrettably, America's Foreign Aid Program Must Exit the Democracy-Promotion Business," Trump's First 100 Days: What to Expect, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, January 2017
• "Advice and Dissent: The Federal Politics of Reforming India's Land Acquisition Legislation," in R. Nagaraj and S. Motiram (eds), Political Economy of Contemporary India (Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 307-330
• "Agency and Accountability: Promoting Women's Participation in Peacebuilding," Feminist Economics, vol. 22, no. 1 (2016), pp. 211-236 - co-authored with Anne Marie Goetz
• Review of Tariq Thachil, Elite Parties, Poor Voters (Cambridge University Press), in Pacific Affairs, vol. 89, no. 2 (June 2016), pp. 461-463
• "Statement and Testimony to the Parliament of Canada," House of Commons, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, RE: Employment-Creation and Inclusive Peacebuilding, Ottawa, 3 May 2016
• "A Grassroots Revolution, The Hindu, 1 March 2016
• "Gender, Security, and Governance: The Case of Sustainable Development Goal 16," Gender and Development, vol. 24, no. 1 (2016), pp. 27-37 - co-authored with Anne Marie Goetz
• "Politics of Social Protection: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh," in Louise Tillin, Rajeshwari Deshpande, and K.K. Kailash (eds), Politics of Welfare: Comparisons Across Indian States (Oxford University Press, 2016) - co-authored with James Manor
• "When and Why Do States Respond to Women's Claims? Understanding Gender-Egalitarian Policy Change in Asia," UNRISD Working Paper No. WP2016-13 (Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, November 2016 - co-authored with Anne Marie Goetz
• "The Practical is the Political: The UN's Global Study on Women, Peace and Security," Peace Operations Review (New York: NYU Center on International Cooperation, November 2015)
• "Missed Opportunities: Gender and the UN's Peace Operations and Peacebuilding Reviews," Peace Operations Review (New York: NYU Center on International Cooperation, July 2015) - co-authored with Anne Marie Goetz
• Review of Sarbeswar Sahoo, Civil Society and Democratization in India: Institutions, Ideologies, and Interests (Routledge 2013), in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 53, no. 2 (2015), pp. 226-228
• "Special Economic Zones: Interrogating the Nexus of Land, Development, and Urbanization," Environment and Urbanization Asia, vol. 6, no. 1 (2015), pp. 1-17 - co-authored with Loraine Kennedy, Partha Mukhopadhyay, and Kanhu C. Pradhan
• 'Is Narendra Modi India's Reagan or Nixon?'ForeignPolicy.com, 29 April 2014.
• 'What will a Modi-led govt do with MGNREGA?',Times of India, 13 April 2014
• 'Is "Programmatic Politics" Possible in the Absence of Party Programmes? Assessing the Alleged Demise of Patronage Politics in India", Ballots and Bullets (University of Nottingham), 2 April 2014
• Power, Policy, and Protest: The Politics of India's Special Economic Zones (Oxford University Press, 2014), coedited with L Kennedy & P Mukhopadhay. 
• Review of Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries (PublicAffairs, 2013); and Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Princeton University Press, 2013), in Studies in Indian Politics, vol. 2, no. 1 (Sage, June 2014)

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

• Politics and political economy of India
• International and comparative politics of development
• The UN and post-conflict peacebuilding

COURSES

• PolSc 360 - Democracy and Development in a Globalizing World
• PolSc 356 - India's Democratic Experiment
• PolSc 372.43 - Post-War Peacebuilding and State-Building
• PolSc 250 - Comparing Countries: Foundations of Comparative Political Analysis
• PolSc 100 - Introduction to Politics: Democracy, Anarchy, and the State

HIGHER EDUCATION

• B.A., Harvard University
• D.Phil., Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (UK)

CURRENT AFFILIATIONS

• Faculty Associate, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, CUNY
• Senior Fellow, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY
• Editorial board member: Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics; Jindal Journal of Public Policy; Studies in Indian Politics.
• Advisor: Freedom House, Freedom in the World Survey Team
  

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

• Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2013)
• Senior Consultant, United Nations Secretariat, Peacebuilding Support Office (2010). Lead author, Report of the Secretary General on Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding (S/2010/466)
• Visiting Scholar, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (2007-08)
• Professor of Political Science, University of London (1995-2008)
• Fellow, Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library (2005-06)
• Visiting Professor, The Poverty Research Unit, School of African & Asian Studies, University of Sussex (2002-03)
• Visiting Fellow, Development Policy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (1997)
• Visiting Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India (1993-94)