The State of Democracy: Some Lessons from Research on Politicians

Jointly Organized by Democracy Resource Center Nepal and Martin Chautari

Title:
The State of Democracy: Some Lessons from Research on Politicians

Speaker:
Vegard Iversen
Professor in Development Economics and Head of Livelihoods and Institutions Department, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich

Date, Time and Venue:
1 July 2025/१७ असार २०८२ (मंगलबार, दिउँसो ३ बजे)
Martin Chautari Seminar Hall, Thapathali, Kathmandu

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About the Speaker:
Vegard Iversen has a PhD from University of Cambridge and is a Professor of Development Economics and Head of the Livelihoods and Institutions Department (LID) at the Natural Resource Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich. He returned to UK academia in 2018 after 12 years in India where he was based at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Together with co-authors, he assembled and has used unique and in-depth survey and behavioural experimental data to study politicians, voters and local democracy in low-income settings, including who gets elected for office, how to measure politician quality and whether time in office changes male and female politicians differently. Other ongoing research addresses social mobility and misperceptions of and changes in (conservative) gender norms. Vegard received the annual Dudley Seers Prize for the best article in Journal of Development Studies in 2008: recent work on politicians won FulbrightNorway’s best scientific article award for 2023. He is a former editor-in-chief of Journal of South Asian Development and serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of Development Studies.

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