Her research focuses on the political economy of development, and employs quantitative analyses of data derived from India and other developing country contexts. Her specific substantive interests include the politics of infrastructure provision, the causes and consequences of democratic local governance and the link between climate change and local level politics. Anjali’s first book, “Democratization from Above: The Logic of Local Democracy in the Developing World” draws on empirical material from India as well as across the developing world to examine why national or state government elites democratise local institutions in some cases and not others. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, she was a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She obtained her PhD from New York University in 2010.