Anirudh Krishna

About

Anirudh Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is also a professor of Political Science, an affiliate of the Duke Global Health Institute, and an affiliate of the Duke Center for International Development. Professor Krishna's work explores issues related to public policy, development, and political science, with a particular focus on how talent ladders can help individuals and nations, especially in developing societies. He has delivered a TEDx Talk on this subject, emphasizing the importance of talent development for societal progress.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Economics
• Law
• Geography
• Business
• Marketing
• Demography
• Political economy
• Socioeconomics

Selected publications

• Precarious gains: Social mobility and volatility in urban slums

  World Development · 2020 · 41 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Local Order, Policing, and Bribes

  World Politics · 2020 · 40 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  ABSTRACT Day-to-day policing represents a fundamental interface between citizens and states. Yet even in the most capable states, local policing varies enormously from one community to the next. The authors seek to understand this variation and in doing so make three contributions: First, they conceptualize communities and individuals as networks more or less capable of demanding high-quality policing. Second, they present original survey data and semistructured interviews on local policing from…

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• Negotiating Informality– Ambiguity, Intermediation, and a Patchwork of Outcomes in Slums of Bengaluru

  The Journal of Development Studies · 2020 · 27 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  In developing countries, procedural ambiguity due to bureaucratic overlap and political discretion gives rise to divergence between law and practice. In this context of pervasive informality, it is important to consider how local negotiations produce disparate outcomes. We examine these local negotiations to explain how informal property rights are acquired and how markets operate in the slums of Bengaluru, India. Drawing on original interview and survey data, we describe how at least 18 types o…

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• A threat to life and livelihoods: examining the effects of the first wave of COVID-19 on health and wellbeing in Bengaluru and Patna slums

  Environment and Urbanization · 2021-11-19 · 14 citations

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  Taking advantage of our existing dataset of 6,721 slum households in two Indian cities, we undertook six rounds of follow-up phone interviews on the impact of COVID-19 between July and November 2020 with three key informants in each of 40 diverse slums. These cities showed contrasting health effects resulting from the first major wave of the COVID-19 pandemic – no deaths and nearly no illnesses were reported in Patna, while there was widespread low-intensity sickness and a cluster of deaths in B…

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• A Range of Informality Across Cities and Slums: Understanding Precarity in Patna’s Slums Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Journal of South Asian Development · 2023-05-11 · 5 citations

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  This article proposes a framework for understanding why slum residents are particularly vulnerable to economic downturns. We centre evidence from Bihar’s capital city, Patna, to examine how downturns are experienced more severely in some cities and slums than others. We argue slums are zones of pervasive informality, remaining largely disconnected from formal institutions and dependent on discretionary supports. But the extent of informality, and vulnerability, varies within and across cities. R…

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Frequent coauthors

• Dan Poenaru

  Montreal Children's Hospital

  104 shared

• Emily R. Smith

  Duke Institute for Health Innovation

  67 shared

• Tessa Concepcion

  66 shared

• Henry E. Rice

  Duke University

  66 shared

• Edna Adan Ismail

  Edna Adan Maternity Hospital

  65 shared

• Mubarak Mohamed

  65 shared

• Shugri Dahir

  Edna Adan Maternity Hospital

  49 shared

• Abdullah Saleh

  48 shared

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