Jennifer Bussell

Jennifer Bussell, (Visiting Assistant Professor of South Asian Politics), is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on comparative politics, the political economy of development, and South Asia. Her book, Corruption and Reform In India: Public Services in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, 2012), draws on fieldwork in seventeen Indian states, as well a citizen survey and field experiment. Her previous research has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Studies in International Development, and is forthcoming in Economic and Political Weekly. She received a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. During the fall 2012 semester, she taught a seminar for undergraduate and graduate students titled “The Political Economy of Natural Disasters,” with emphasis on natural disasters in South Asia.