Katharine Adeney

Introduction

Professor Katharine Adeney is Professor of Comparative Politics at University of Nottingham, having previously held positions at the University of Sheffield, Balliol College, Oxford and the London School of Economics. She is co-editor of the new Palgrave Series on the Politics of South Asia.

Professor Adeney’s principal research interests include elections and democracy in South Asia, especially India and Pakistan; the politics of majoritarianism in South Asia; the historical and contemporary evolution of federal systems in South Asia; and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. She was a key member of the Leverhulme funded project on continuity and change in Indian federalism, particularly on the management of ethnic diversity in India over the last 20 years. She is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for Multilevel Federalism in New Delhi and has been a Visiting Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Australia National University. She was the Lead Consultant for the Forum of Federations’ programme in Pakistan which ran between 2009 and 2011, funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Among Professor Adeney’s publications are Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in India and Pakistan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Contemporary India (with Andrew Wyatt) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) as well as numerous journal, articles in leading journals such as Democratization, Publius, Asian Survey, Nations and Nationalism and India Review.

Her Twitter handle is @katadeney.

Areas of Interest and Expertise

• Majoritarianism in South Asia
• The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
• Federal Evolution in South Asia
• Democracy in South Asia