Teaching
Courses
Education
- PhD, Political Science, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
- MA, Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- BA, Political Science, Bangalore University
Profile
Srikrishna is a Political Scientist with expertise in the comparative politics of developing areas, particularly around questions of populism and its place in democracies beyond the Americas and Europe. He has also been involved in the design and development of public policy programmes for many years, and has taught courses related to problem solving, policy writing and implementation analysis. He has expertise in comparative configurational methodologies, particularly in the Qualitative Comparative Analysis method.
His research works have been published in journals like the Studies in Comparative Development and Studies in Indian Politics.
He has taught at Azim Premji University for more than a decade, and prior to that, at the University of Hartford and the University of the South – Sewanee. He has also had short-term teaching appointments at New York University and at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
Publications
Books
- ‘A Logic of Populism: India and its States,’ (Cambridge, 2025)
Book Chapters
- ‘Populisms in India,’ in Three Faces of Populism in Asia: Populism as a Multi-faceted Political Practice, Shiru Wang (ed), Routledge, Hong Kong. 2024
Journal Articles
- ‘Populism and Nationalism in India’, Studies in Comparative International Development, (with Ashutosh Varshney and Siddharth Swaminathan). Volume 56, 2021
- ‘School Choice and Implementation: Survey Evidence Across India’s States,’ Studies in Indian Politics 8 (2). Pgs 170 – 185 (with Shyam Kashyap, Prateeti Prasad and Rishikesh). 2020
- ‘Populism’ in Swaminathan S., Palshikar S. (et.al), ‘Politics and Society Between Elections,’ Centre for Regional Political Economy, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. 2019. Pgs. 140 – 151
- Question Hour Activity and Party Behavior in India, Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol 21, Issue 2, 2015 [with Suraj Jacob]
- Studying the Indian Legislature: What does Question Hour Reveal?, Studies in Indian Politics, June 2014 [with Suraj Jacob]