[Reader-list] `Analysis of the Karnataka Election Results’- James Manor, CSDS, 1st August, 2:30 PM

[Rajesh Ramakrishnan]

Friday, 1st August, 2008

You are invited to a talk on:


`Analysis of the Karnataka Election Results'

By James Manor

at 2:30 PM in the Seminar Hall, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi – 110 054


Professor James Manor is Emeka Anyaoku Chair in Commonwealth Studies
at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study,
University of London. Earlier, he was a Professorial Fellow at the
Institute of Development Studies at Sussex, and VKRV Rao Endowment
Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change in
Bangalore. He has held positions at the Universities of Leicester,
London, Harvard, Sussex and Yale. He was the Director of the Institute
of Commonwealth Studies for four years during the 1990s.

Professor Manor specialises in the study of politics and state-society
relations, mainly in South and East Asia. He has published several
books including Aid that Works: Successful Development Programs in
Fragile States (World Bank, 2006), Democracy & Decentralisation in
South Asia & West Africa: Participation, Accountability and
Performance (with Richard Crook) (Cambridge University Press, 1998),
Nehru to the Nineties: the Changing Office of Prime Minister in India
(Penguin/Hurst, 1994), Power, Poverty and Poison: Disaster and
Response in an Indian City (Sage: 1993) and Rethinking Third World
Politics (Longman, 1991). A forthcoming book is (with Marcus Melo and
Njuguna N'gethe) Against the Odds: Politicians, Institutions and the
Struggle against Poverty.