Comparative Politics

Research Interest

Philip Rogers

Graduate Student
Political Science

Philip Rogers is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of California, who studies political economy with a focus on China. His research draws upon the nexus of law, policy, and business to study corporate regulation and technological innovation in domestic and international contexts. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked on transnational corporate law cases as a paralegal at the Shanghai office of Zhong Lun Law Firm.

Varsha Venkatasubramanian

Graduate Student
History

Varsha Venkatasubramanian is a graduate student in the History Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the history of dams in the United States and the World as it relates to foreign policy, policy history, environmental movements, and legal history. Her dissertation focuses on U.S.-India relations and infrastructure projects during the 1950s to the 1980s.

Shelley Liu

Assistant Professor
Goldman School of Public Policy

Shelley Liu is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on conflict and development in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on how governments develop the state after conflict, how citizens respond to development policies, and how access to education and information mediates the relationship between citizens and their government.

Cecilia Mo

Associate Professor
Political Science

Cecilia Mo is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies behavioral political economics, comparative political behavior, the political economy of development, and social policy research, focusing on the intersection of political science, economics, and psychology.

Alison Post

Associate Professor
Political Science
Center on the Politics of Development

Alison Post is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the intersection of comparative urban politics and comparative political economy in Latin America and South Asia, with a particular focus on the regulation and provision of infrastructure services.

Andrew Little

Assistant Professor
Political Science

Andrew Little is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies authoritarian politics, communication and information manipulation, and conflict, exploring the causes and political consequences of "nonstandard" belief formation with the use of formal models.

Jennifer Bussell

Associate Professor
Political Science
Goldman School of Public Policy

Jennifer Bussell is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the foundations of democratic politics in economically developing states, with an emphasis on the political economy of development, democratic representation, and governance, principally in South Asia and Africa.