CURRENT PROJECTS:
Collaborative Projects:
I am working on several collaborative projects with amazing co-authors at Kennesaw State University. These include several projects based on twitter data on Masking during the Pandemic, an article on Coalition Failures in the MENA and Teaching Modes and Diversity.
Book Project
My book project focuses on autonomy demands. I place autonomy demands made by groups on a spectrum from recognition at the low end to cultural, economic and political rights all the way to secession. Most of the existing literature focuses on secession, at the high end of the spectrum as secessionist demands are associated with violence. I argue that focusing at this high end alone misses the early bargaining stages of the government-group interaction and thus limits our understanding of group demands and how these can be addressed effectively and without groups resorting to violent means. Focusing on why groups change their demands from lower levels of autonomy to higher levels and associated changes in means may help us better address these demands when they are placed and prevent them from escalating and being associated with violent means. Towards this end, my students and I have painstakingly collected data on about 60 minority groups across Asia measuring levels of demands between 1950-present. I also include three case studies from India, based on fieldwork, archival research and interviews, onn the regions of Assam (Bodo movement), Uttarakhand movement and Telangana movement) in India.
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Peer-Reviewed Publications
Bhasin, T. (2021). Book Chapter. Designing A Research Methods Course for a Skeptical Classroom. In Julia M. Hellwege, Daniel J. Mallinson and Eric Loepp. Pedagogy Through the Research Process. Palgrave. Forthcoming.
Bhasin, T. and C. Butcher (2021). Teaching Effective Policy Memo Wiriting and Infographics in A Policy Programme. European Political Science (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-021-0030-0 Published Online in Advance of Print (March 2021). Impact Factor of 1.429 (2019)
Bhasin, T., Butcher C.K., Gordon E., Hallward, M.G., LeFebvre, R. 2020 Does Karen Wear a Mask? The Gendering of Covid-19 Masking Rhetoric. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 40(9/10), 929-937. Scopus Cite Score of 1.6 (2020)
Ethnicity and Confidence in Government: The Case of Turkish-Minority Relations. Coauthored with Charity Butcher and Deniz Gemustekin. Journal of Turkish Studies. Vol 19. No.1. January 2018. Abstract
Taking the Fight to Them: Neighborhood INGOs and Domestic Protest. Coauthored with Sam Bell, Amanda Murdie and Chad Clay. British Journal of Political Science. Vol 44. No. 4 October 2014. Abstract
Timing and Targeting of State Repression in Authoritarian Elections. Coauthored with Jennifer Gandhi. Electoral Studies. Vol. 32. No. 4 December 2013. PDF. Abstract
Hamas as a Political Party: Democratization in the Palestinian Territories. Coauthored with Maia Hallward. Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 25. No. 1. January 2013. PDF. Abstract.
Aiding and Abetting? An Events Data Study of the Impact of International NGOs on Domestic Anti-Government Protest. Coauthored with Amanda Murdie. Journal of Conflict Resolution. April 2011. Vol 55. No. 2. Google Scholar reports 29 citations for this article. PDF. URL to Abstract.
Invited Publications Invited Book Review. Reputation and Civil War: Why Separatists Are So Violent, by Barbara Walter. Journal of Politics. Vol 72. No. 1. January 2012. URL
Invited Book Review. “Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy: A Paradoxical Legacy” by Clair Apodaca in the International Studies Association – South Newsletter, November 2006.
Invited Blogpost. Hamas as a Political Party. Extremis Project (A global platform for evidence-based analysis of extremism and terrorism). May 10, 2013.
Dissertation
Democracy and Dissent. I studied the effects of democratic institutional choices on dissent and state repression. One of the findings in the book is that more inclusive institutions (those that encourage parties to form and participate in government) experience less violent dissent and more nonviolent dissent. Another is that states use accommodation and repression simultaneously - these strategies are not substitutes for each other. I adopt a mixed methods approach to study political dissent in democracies using the three cases of the movements for Bodoland, Uattarakhand and Telangana, a quantitative chapter using time-series data on India and two broader comparative analyses, one each of dissent and repression across all democracies from 1990-2008.
Collaborative Projects:
I am working on several collaborative projects with amazing co-authors at Kennesaw State University. These include several projects based on twitter data on Masking during the Pandemic, an article on Coalition Failures in the MENA and Teaching Modes and Diversity.
Book Project
My book project focuses on autonomy demands. I place autonomy demands made by groups on a spectrum from recognition at the low end to cultural, economic and political rights all the way to secession. Most of the existing literature focuses on secession, at the high end of the spectrum as secessionist demands are associated with violence. I argue that focusing at this high end alone misses the early bargaining stages of the government-group interaction and thus limits our understanding of group demands and how these can be addressed effectively and without groups resorting to violent means. Focusing on why groups change their demands from lower levels of autonomy to higher levels and associated changes in means may help us better address these demands when they are placed and prevent them from escalating and being associated with violent means. Towards this end, my students and I have painstakingly collected data on about 60 minority groups across Asia measuring levels of demands between 1950-present. I also include three case studies from India, based on fieldwork, archival research and interviews, onn the regions of Assam (Bodo movement), Uttarakhand movement and Telangana movement) in India.
Download CV in .pdf format
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Bhasin, T. (2021). Book Chapter. Designing A Research Methods Course for a Skeptical Classroom. In Julia M. Hellwege, Daniel J. Mallinson and Eric Loepp. Pedagogy Through the Research Process. Palgrave. Forthcoming.
Bhasin, T. and C. Butcher (2021). Teaching Effective Policy Memo Wiriting and Infographics in A Policy Programme. European Political Science (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-021-0030-0 Published Online in Advance of Print (March 2021). Impact Factor of 1.429 (2019)
Bhasin, T., Butcher C.K., Gordon E., Hallward, M.G., LeFebvre, R. 2020 Does Karen Wear a Mask? The Gendering of Covid-19 Masking Rhetoric. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 40(9/10), 929-937. Scopus Cite Score of 1.6 (2020)
Ethnicity and Confidence in Government: The Case of Turkish-Minority Relations. Coauthored with Charity Butcher and Deniz Gemustekin. Journal of Turkish Studies. Vol 19. No.1. January 2018. Abstract
Taking the Fight to Them: Neighborhood INGOs and Domestic Protest. Coauthored with Sam Bell, Amanda Murdie and Chad Clay. British Journal of Political Science. Vol 44. No. 4 October 2014. Abstract
Timing and Targeting of State Repression in Authoritarian Elections. Coauthored with Jennifer Gandhi. Electoral Studies. Vol. 32. No. 4 December 2013. PDF. Abstract
Hamas as a Political Party: Democratization in the Palestinian Territories. Coauthored with Maia Hallward. Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 25. No. 1. January 2013. PDF. Abstract.
Aiding and Abetting? An Events Data Study of the Impact of International NGOs on Domestic Anti-Government Protest. Coauthored with Amanda Murdie. Journal of Conflict Resolution. April 2011. Vol 55. No. 2. Google Scholar reports 29 citations for this article. PDF. URL to Abstract.
Invited Publications Invited Book Review. Reputation and Civil War: Why Separatists Are So Violent, by Barbara Walter. Journal of Politics. Vol 72. No. 1. January 2012. URL
Invited Book Review. “Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy: A Paradoxical Legacy” by Clair Apodaca in the International Studies Association – South Newsletter, November 2006.
Invited Blogpost. Hamas as a Political Party. Extremis Project (A global platform for evidence-based analysis of extremism and terrorism). May 10, 2013.
Dissertation
Democracy and Dissent. I studied the effects of democratic institutional choices on dissent and state repression. One of the findings in the book is that more inclusive institutions (those that encourage parties to form and participate in government) experience less violent dissent and more nonviolent dissent. Another is that states use accommodation and repression simultaneously - these strategies are not substitutes for each other. I adopt a mixed methods approach to study political dissent in democracies using the three cases of the movements for Bodoland, Uattarakhand and Telangana, a quantitative chapter using time-series data on India and two broader comparative analyses, one each of dissent and repression across all democracies from 1990-2008.