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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Aug 14

"... shows how a different form of public policy-subsidized home ownership-can transform poor people's lives by bolstering not just wealth but also agency and civic participation."

'Building Social Mobility' by @tanukumar.com.

Coming Soon - 📚 cup.org/3Hu4o9k 📚

Cover of the book 'Building Social Mobility: How Subsidized Homeownership Creates Wealth, Dignity, and Voice in India,' part of the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series. The illustration features a detailed cross-section of an apartment building with various people engaged in daily activities.

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Jul 2

thank you for reading and sharing!

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Deshdeep Dhankhar @deshdeep.bsky.social · Jul 2

The new paper from Adam Auerbach & @tanukumar.com, challenges the conventional understanding of urban peripheries as neglected zones & demonstrates them as crucial sites of negotiation, innovation & contestation. Indeed, future of urban India can't be shaped just in city centres but at their edges.

Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities

ABSTRACT Some privately developed neighborhoods on the outskirts of India’s cities are formalized by urban authorities while others are not. What explains this uneven formalization and what are its...

doi.org

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Jun 26

To what extent do we think he’s still using the same strategy…???

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Jun 26

Are primaries and general elections different, and primaries in places where the general will be competitive?

Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · May 29

Sure many academic books are padded articles but also

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · Apr 9

Really grateful to be receiving McCourt's Tech & Public Policy grant---with @tanukumar.com and @gabikw.bsky.social---to study how citizen-generated information influences civic action for governance in India! Other fantastic projects funded here:

mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/tech-pu...

Tech & Public Policy program awards $1.5M in grants to 24 Georgetown researchers - McCourt School of Public Policy

Tech & Public Policy program awards $1.5M in grants to support research in AI, digital governance and ethics of emerging technologies.

mccourt.georgetown.edu

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Mar 25

Terps 🤩

JuJu 💔

Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Mar 7

Thanks Thiago!

Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Mar 7

Thanks Anjali!

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Mar 7

Thanks Stuart!

Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Mar 7

I'll be starting at the World Bank as a Governance Specialist in the Public Institutions and Data Analytics Unit in May. Excited to work with a great team on important work, and to be back in my hometown is a dream. Thanks to everyone at CGU for all you've taught me.

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Feb 7

Thank you :)

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Jan 31

My book, Building Social Mobility is available for preorder! shorturl.at/jlgQv

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Jan 6

Hello! I work in development, studying governance from the perspective of local officials and citizen interactions. Focus on India. Thanks for highlighting all of this cool work!

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · Dec 31

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

Screencap showing the jump from Oct 4 to 15

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Mike Raphone @cheatlines.co · Jul 14

"We are attempting to survive our time, so we may live into yours."

Statement by President Jimmy Carter included on the Voyager Golden Record: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/voyager-spacecraft-statement-the-president

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Dec 19

ICYMI Ryan Atwood from the OC wrote a bestselling book on crypto

www.amazon.com/Easy-Money-C...

Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

Amazon.com: Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud: 9781419766398: McKenzie, Ben, Silverman, Jacob: Books

www.amazon.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Dec 18

You know it’s bad when even Trump is pity posting through it 💀

Tweet from Trump that says: “Really too bad that AOC lost the Battle for the Leadership Seat in the Democrat Party.
She should keep trying. Someday, she will be successful!”

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Governance and Local Development Institute @gldinstitute.bsky.social · Dec 9

How can citizens drive accountability in resource-strained bureaucracies? 🌍 GLD Policy Brief No.26 explores how community efforts, empathy, and mobilization improve service delivery in rural India. Read the brief to learn more! bit.ly/4feVFm1

By Gabi Kruks-Wisner, @tanukumar.com, Jessica Mayberry.

GLD Policy Brief No.26: "Mind the Gap: Citizen-led Efforts to Build Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Rural India."

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Dec 7

we'd really be able to boost our leverage of franklin pierce and longfellow

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Dec 6

i bet uc berkeley goes way down once school size is accounted for

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Dec 5

Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets.

Interstellar

Michael Kaine

Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · Dec 5

Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets.

Taxi Driver

Only keep DeNiro as Travis Bickle

wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · Dec 5

Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets.

Full Metal Jacket
Only keep Cowboy

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Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · Dec 2

Policy brief on my work with Gabi Kruks-Wisner and Video Volunteers on how citizens can demand responsiveness from bureaucrats who are overburdened and not formally accountable to them:

gld.gu.se/en/publicati...

GLD

Why are some communities able to provide secure environments, good education, adequate healthcare, and other factors that promote human development, while others fail to do so?

gld.gu.se

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Mathias Poertner @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social · Nov 29

🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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