He is author of The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States and co-editor of Economic Reform in Three Giants: U.S. Foreign Policy and the USSR, China, and India. He has written many articles in comparative public policy and the political economy of development. His current research project is on “The Political Economy of India’s Financial Sector Reform in Comparative Perspective.” He is a member of the editorial board of Political Science Quarterly. He has served as consultant to the World Bank and USAID. He was chair of the American Political Science Task Force on Difference and Inequality in Developing Societies and treasurer of the American Institute of Indian Studies. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.