Tanushree Goyal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1168356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanushree Goyal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanushree |
| FAMILY NAME | Goyal |
| SIGNATURE | GOYAL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3436-3542 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Is Ethnic Violence Self-Perpetuating? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Hindu-Muslim Riots in India
Ethnic riots tend to occur in the same places over time. We study whether this serial correlation exists because ethnic riots tend to be self-perpetuating or because both past and future riots are caused by the same underlying factors that persist through time. To answer this question, we leverage the fact that the timing of major Hindu festivals in India is exogenously determined by the lunar calendar and that when a major Hindu festival happens…
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India
What drives the career advancement of female politicians in opaque selection environments where party activists hold sway? I argue that women's higher presence in local politics not only improves party elite responsiveness to greater talent supply (top‐down mechanism) but also expands women's capacity to organize grassroots activist networks to influence party‐nomination decisions (bottom‐up mechanism). Using the natural experiment of gender quot…
Do Citizens Enforce Accountability for Public Goods Provision? Evidence from India’s Rural Roads Program
Representation from Below: How Women's Grassroots Party Activism Promotes Equal Political Participation
Extensive research investigates the impact of descriptive representation on women's political participation; yet, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This article develops a novel theory of descriptive representation, arguing that women politicians mobilize women's political participation by recruiting women as grassroots party activists. Evidence from a citizen survey and the natural experiment of gender quotas in India confirm that women …
Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil
This article highlights a new way in which descriptive representation enhances democracy through inclusive party building. We theorize that parties retain and promote incumbents based on gendered criteria, disproportionately incentivizing women to recruit party members. However, gendered resource inequalities lower women's access to the patronage required for recruitment. Women respond by recruiting more women members, as it lowers recruitment co…
Representation from Below: How Women's Grassroots Party Activism Promotes Equal Political Participation
Extensive research investigates the impact of descriptive representation on women's political participation; yet, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This article develops a novel theory of descriptive representation, arguing that women politicians mobilize women's political participation by recruiting women as grassroots party activists. Evidence from a citizen survey and the natural experiment of gender quotas in India confirm that women …
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India
What drives the career advancement of female politicians in opaque selection environments where party activists hold sway? I argue that women's higher presence in local politics not only improves party elite responsiveness to greater talent supply (top‐down mechanism) but also expands women's capacity to organize grassroots activist networks to influence party‐nomination decisions (bottom‐up mechanism). Using the natural experiment of gender quot…
Do Citizens Enforce Accountability for Public Goods Provision? Evidence from India’s Rural Roads Program
Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil
This article highlights a new way in which descriptive representation enhances democracy through inclusive party building. We theorize that parties retain and promote incumbents based on gendered criteria, disproportionately incentivizing women to recruit party members. However, gendered resource inequalities lower women's access to the patronage required for recruitment. Women respond by recruiting more women members, as it lowers recruitment co…
Do Citizens Enforce Accountability for Public Goods Provision? Evidence from India’s Rural Roads Program
Representation from Below: How Women's Grassroots Party Activism Promotes Equal Political Participation
Extensive research investigates the impact of descriptive representation on women's political participation; yet, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This article develops a novel theory of descriptive representation, arguing that women politicians mobilize women's political participation by recruiting women as grassroots party activists. Evidence from a citizen survey and the natural experiment of gender quotas in India confirm that women …
Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil
This article highlights a new way in which descriptive representation enhances democracy through inclusive party building. We theorize that parties retain and promote incumbents based on gendered criteria, disproportionately incentivizing women to recruit party members. However, gendered resource inequalities lower women's access to the patronage required for recruitment. Women respond by recruiting more women members, as it lowers recruitment co…
Is Ethnic Violence Self-Perpetuating? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Hindu-Muslim Riots in India
Ethnic riots tend to occur in the same places over time. We study whether this serial correlation exists because ethnic riots tend to be self-perpetuating or because both past and future riots are caused by the same underlying factors that persist through time. To answer this question, we leverage the fact that the timing of major Hindu festivals in India is exogenously determined by the lunar calendar and that when a major Hindu festival happens…
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India
What drives the career advancement of female politicians in opaque selection environments where party activists hold sway? I argue that women's higher presence in local politics not only improves party elite responsiveness to greater talent supply (top‐down mechanism) but also expands women's capacity to organize grassroots activist networks to influence party‐nomination decisions (bottom‐up mechanism). Using the natural experiment of gender quot…
Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Representation (politics (3 works) · Democracy (2 works)