ALICE Colloquium
ALICE Colloquium_Panel II: [10] Peter DeSouza
2014-09-19

Peter Ronald deSouza is Professor at the CSDS since 2003. He was on leave from Dec 2007 to March 2014, when he went on deputation as Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) till July 2013 and as Interim Director of the International Centre of Human Development (IC4HD), a project of IIAS and UNDP which he established. In addition to numerous articles that he has published he has also edited three books, Contemporary India: Transitions (2000) and India's Political Parties (with E. Sridharan, 2006), and Indian Youth in a Transforming World (with Sanjay Kumar and Sandeep Shastri, 2009). He was one of the three principal investigators of a five nation study on the State of Democracy in South Asia OUP, 2006. He has also taught Political Science at Goa University. He has written on Panchayati Raj and the 'second wind' of democracy in India, party hopping and the party system in India, electoral violence and its sources, Dalits and discrimination, trust and political institutions. His abiding interest is in threats to freedom of expression in democratic polities. As a political theorist he is interested in puzzles of Indian Democracy.