Professor Yadav’s research and teaching interests lie in comparative politics, political economy, economic development, and survey research. Her research specifically focuses on the political and policy consequences of institutional choice and design, the comparative study of business and religious interest-group behaviors and, their consequences for political outcomes and policy outcomes, judicial politics in developing countries and, economic development. She is currently working on projects that study the determinants of elite preferences on institutions and economic policies across countries, the rise and consequences of populist parties in developing country democracies, the politics of adopting commercial courts and their economic and political consequences and, factors that shape lobbying practices at the national and sub-national level in India.
Books
April, 2021 Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties Oxford University Press
January, 2016. Vineeta Yadav and Bumba Mukherjee. The Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships Cambridge University Press.
2014. Vineeta Yadav and Bumba Mukherjee. Democracy, Electoral Institutions and Judicial Empowerment in Developing Countries.
University of Michigan Press.
Political Parties, Business Groups, and Corruption in Developing Countries.
Oxford University Press, 2011.
Papers
“Authoritarian Institutions and Democratic Lessons” 2022, Political Research Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912922111
Vineeta Yadav and Amanda Fidalgo “The Face of the Party: Party Leadership Selection, and the Role of Family and Faith ” 2021, Political Research Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129211011538
“Political Families and Support for Democracy in Pakistan” 2020, Asian Survey 60(6): 1044-1071
Minnie Joo, Nicolas Schmidt, Sergio Bejar, Vineeta Yadav and Bumba Mukherjee. “BayesMFSurv: An R Package to Estimate Bayesian Split-Population Survival Models With (and Without) Misclassified Failure Events” 2020 JOSS
“Studying Legislative Party Politics in Data Scarce Environments : A New Empirical Approach” 2017, Party Politics
Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Thomas Brawner, Bumba Mukherjee, and Vineeta Yadav. “Regional International Organizations and Individual Immigration Attitudes: Results from Finite Mixture Models.”
International Interactions June, 2014 40(3): 350-375, DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2014.899226
Bumba Mukherjee, Vineeta Yadav and Sergio Bejar. “Electoral Particularism, Bank Concentration, and Capital Account Liberalization in Developing Democracies” Comparative Political Studies 2014 47(6): 851-877
Bumba Mukherjee, Vineeta Yadav, and Sergio Bejar. “Candidate-centered systems, public banks and equity market restrictions in developing democracies” Review of International Political Economy 2014 21(3): 670-709
“Legislative Institutions and Corruption in Developing Country Democracies.” Comparative Political Studies. August, 2012. 45 (8): 1027-58.
“Business lobbies and policy making in developing countries: The contrasting cases of India and China.” Journal of Public Affairs. February, 2008. Volume 8:67-82.
Chapters
“The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones in India” in Internal Migration: Challenges in Governance & Integration, Editors William Ascher and Shane Barter, Peter Lang Publishers. 2019
“Pressure Groups” in Encyclopedia of Political Science, CQ Press, 2010.
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