I am a political scientist, with a PhD from New York
University.
My research interests center on gender and political
participation, with a regional focus on India. My dissertation
investigates under which conditions women turn out to vote at equal
rates to men even in the absence of individual-level resources such as
income, education and political knowledge. I show that household support
for female participation can bridge the resource gap between men and
women to close the gender turnout gap; and that clientelist parties are
most likely to incentivize household support.
I employ a variety of methodological approaches in my research,
including surveys, experiments, statistical analyses of large datasets,
and qualitative interviews and observations. My dissertation combines
several months of qualitative fieldwork with an original household-level
survey, hand-coded information on ethnic clientelist parties based on
historical newspaper archives, and a newly assembled administrative
dataset on turnout by gender to understand the factors affecting women’s
political participation in India.
You can contact me at franziska ‘at’ nyu ‘dot’ edu. My CV is
available here: