Rate My Professor Jennifer Bussell

Bussell's research focuses on comparative politics and the political economy of development, democratic representation, and governance outcomes, principally in South Asia, particularly India, and Africa. Her work examines the effects of formal and informal institutions such as corruption, coalition politics, and federalism on policy outcomes, including eGovernment reforms, constituency service in patronage democracies, and disaster preparedness. She is the author of two books: Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies (Oxford University Press, 2019), which uses elite and citizen surveys, interviews, qualitative shadowing, and experiments to analyze public service delivery in India and elsewhere; and Corruption and Reform in India: Public Services in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, 2012), based on fieldwork across sixteen Indian states and parts of South Africa and Brazil. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in journals including Political Analysis, Governance, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, and Economic and Political Weekly. Bussell has received major awards, including the Giovanni Sartori Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association's Qualitative and Mixed Methods Section in 2020 for Clients and Constituents, the Virginia M. Walsh Best Dissertation Award from APSA's Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section, and the Best Published Article Award from APSA's Information Technology and Politics Section in 2012.