Robert S. Jenkins [email protected]

Academic Appointment

Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York (2008-present)

Associate Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY (2008-present)

Recent Activities

During 2006-2011, research and consultancy work primarily in two areas:

The UN and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding – involving a number of interrelated projects:

Research project on the UN Peacebuilding Commission: Monograph (Peacebuilding: From Concept to Commission, Routledge, in press); Commissioned papers for LSE, Carnegie Corporation and Government of Canada.

Senior consultant, UN Peacebuilding Support Office, Feb-Oct 2010: Lead author, Report of the Secretary General on Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding (S/2010/466); subject of Security Council Open Debate.

Consultant for UN interagency network convening June 2009 High-Level Colloquium on Sexual Violence & Mediation; co-chaired Right to Redress working group; developed draft guidance material for mediators; coauthored w/AM Goetz, ―Addressing Sexual Violence in Internationally Mediated Peace Negotiations,‖ International Peacekeeping, vol 17, April 2010

The Politics of Institutionalizing Rights in India – centering on three main projects:

Co-director, ‗Rights-Based Development and India‘s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act‘ (funded, 2008-2011, UK Economic & Social Research Council): examines use of rights (to information, to work) in design of world‘s largest employment program, and constraints on the exercise of these rights. Co-authored monograph in process.

Co-director, ‗The Politics of India‘s Special Economic Zones‘ (funded 2007-2010, Ford Foundation): examines assertion of rights (to property, to due process, to democratic participation) by people affected by the establishment of these highly deregulated export-processing enclaves. Co-edited volume in process.

Continued research on ‗Right to Information and Anti-Corruption Activism in India‘, including articles for the Journal of Democracy and consultancy reports and other publications for DFID, Oxfam, and the World Bank (see Research Grants, Consulting, and Publications, below).

Previous Positions

2001-2008 Professor of Political Science, University of London (UK), 2001-2008 1995-2001 Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, London, 1995-2001

Academic Fellowships

Research Associate (non-resident), Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (2007-08) – researching the Politics of Special Economic Zones.

Visiting Senior Fellow, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York (2006-08) – researching the UN Peacebuilding Commission.

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Fellow, Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, Humanities & Social Science Research Division, New York Public Library (2005-06), researching movements for federal world government in the United States and India during the mid 20th Century.

Visiting Professor, The Poverty Research Unit, School of African & Asian Studies, University of Sussex (2002-03)

Visiting Fellow, Development Policy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (Spring 1997)

Visiting Researcher, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India (1993-94)

Higher Education

University of Sussex DPhil, Institute of Development Studies, 1997

Harvard College BA, Department of Government, 1989

Research Grants

Ford Foundation (2008-2011) Economic and Social Research Council (UK) (2007-10) Economic and Social Research Council (UK) (2006-07) Globalization and Poverty Programme, Dept for International Development (UK) (2001-03) Social Science Research Unit, Dept for International Development (UK) (2002-03) Ford Foundation (1997-2000) Economic and Social Research Council (UK) (1998-2000) Department for International Development (UK) (1998-2000) British Academy (UK) and Centre Nationale de Recherché Scientifique (France) (1999-2002) Central Research Fund, University of London (UK) (1997) Nuffield Foundation (UK) (1996) British Council (UK) (1995-96) Overseas Development Administration (UK) (1993-97)

Consulting

Carnegie Corporation of New York/University of Ottawa (2010) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada (2009) World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (2008-09) UNESCO ‗Global Monitoring Report 2009: Education For All‘ (2009) UNIFEM (2008-09) Oxfam, UK (2008), co-director, ‗Survey of Oxfam Priorities in the Areas of Local Governance and the ―Right to be Heard‖‘ Saferworld, UK (2008), consultant/author, Briefing Note on ‗Prevention, Peacebuilding, and the PBC‘ The Carter Center, Emory University (2008), panelist and contributor, ‗Promoting a Global Right to Information‘ UK DFID Policy Division(March-July 2007), World Bank Institute (2005-06), ‘Governance and Public Accountability’ Policy Division, UK DFID (Jan-Sept 2004), ‘Drivers of Policy and Institutional Change’ UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ambassadorial Briefing (2003) World Bank/DFID (2002-03) United Nations Development Program (2001-02) Strategic Partnership with Africa (SPA) – World Bank-led donor consortium (2000-02) UK DFID (2000-01) Economist Intelligence Unit, India Country Report and India Country Forecast (1997-99)

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Special Programme of Assistance (SPA) for Africa—World-Bank-led donor consortium (1998) US Department of State, Ambassadorial Briefing (1997) British Council and Institute of Development Studies, ‗Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Training Course‘ (1995-97, 1999, 2000, 2001) World Bank/Swedish International Development Agency (1995-96)

Publications

In process

Peacebuilding: From Concept to Commission (Routledge) – monograph, in press (forthcoming Jan 2012)

The Politics of India’s Special Economic Zones – co-edited volume, under review.

Making Welfare Work: The Politics of India’s Right to Employment – co-authored volume, drafting in process.

Monographs and Edited Collections

Reinventing Accountability: Making Democracy Work for Human Development (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005) – co- authored with AM Goetz

Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) – sole-authored

Reassessing the Commonwealth (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs/Chatham House, 1997) – sole-authored

Where Development Meets History, Special Issue (44:1) of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (Taylor & Francis, 2006) – guest editor

Regional Reflections: Comparing Politics Across India’s States (Oxford University Press, 2004) – editor

The Politics of India’s Next Generation of Economic Reforms, Special Issue of India Review (Washington, DC), vol. 3, no. 2 (2004) – co-edited with Sunil Khilnani.

Articles and Working Papers

(co-authored with AM Goetz), ―Addressing Sexual Violence in Internationally Mediated Peace Negotiations,‖ International Peacekeeping, vol 17, April 2010

‗Access to Information and Pro-Poor Development: Lessons from Two Cases in India,‘ Working Paper (Atlanta, GA: The Carter Center, February 2008)

‗Organizational Change and Institutional Survival: The Case of the U.N. Peacebuilding Commission,‘ Seton Hall Law Review, 38:4 (2008), pp. 1327-1364.

‗Making the Most of the UN Peacebuilding Commission,‘ Briefing Note for Saferworld UK (London) for UK Parliamentary Hearing, May 2008

‗The UN Peacebuilding Commission and the Dissemination of International Norms,‘ Working Paper No. 38, Crisis States Programme, LSE (June 2008) – available at http://www.crisisstates.com/publications/phase2papers.htm

‗India‘s Unlikely Democracy: Civil Society Versus Corruption,‘ Journal of Democracy, vol. 18, no. 2 (April 2007), pp. 55-69; reprinted in Sumit Ganguly, Larry Diamond, and Marc F. Plattner (eds), The State of India’s Democracy (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), pp. 161-75.

‗Democracy, Development and India‘s Struggle Against Corruption,‘ Public Policy Research (Blackwell Publishers/Institute of Public Policy Research), vol. 13, no. 3 (Sept-Dec 2006), pp. 155-163.

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‗Collateral Benefit: The Iraq War and the Legitimacy of International Trusteeship,‘ Dissent, Spring 2006, pp. 72-75.

‗Toward a Networked Aid Structure: Why Development Assistance Should be Routed Through Transnational Networks of Government Officials from Donor and Recipient Countries,‘ Working Paper, Workshop on Politics and the New Aid Modalities, Columbia University, January 2006.

‗Reservation Politics in Rajasthan,‘ Working Paper, Crisis States Programme, LSE, December 2004.

‗Labor Policy and the Second Generation of Economic Reform in India,‘ India Review, vol. 3, no. 2 (November 2004), pp. 333-363.

‗The Limits to the Constituent Diplomacy Paradigm: India‘s States and the Making of Foreign Economic Policy,‘ Publius: The Journal of Federalism, vol. 33, no. 4 (Fall 2003), pp. 63-81.

‗How Federalism Influences India‘s Domestic Politics of WTO Engagement (And Is Itself Affected in the Process),‘ Asian Survey (University of California Press), vol. 43, no. 4 (2003), pp. 598-621.

‗International Development Institutions and National Economic Contexts: Neoliberalism Encounters Indigenous Political Traditions,‘ Economy and Society, vol. 32, no. 4 (2003), pp. 584-610.

‗Institutionalization and Malawi‘s PRSP‘ [co-authored with M Tsoka], Development Policy Review, vol. 21, no. 3 (2003), pp. 197-215.

‗India and the Trade-and-Labour-Standards-Controversy,‘ Daxiyangguo, vol. 1, no. 3 (2003), pp. 129-38.

‗Hybrid Forms of Accountability: Citizen Engagement in Institutions of Public-Sector Oversight,‘ [co-authored with AM Goetz], Public Management Review, vol. 3, no. 3 (2001), pp. 363-84.

‗Voice, Accountability and Human Development: The Emergence of a New Agenda‘ [co-authored with AM Goetz], Background Paper for UNDP, Human Development Report 2002: Deepening Democracy.

‗Bringing Citizen Voice and Client Focus into Service Delivery‘ (co-author), IDS Working Paper 138 (Brighton, UK, 2001).

‗Mainstreaming the Poverty-Reduction Agenda: An Analysis of Institutional Mechanisms to Support Pro-Poor Policy Making in Six African Countries‘ [co-authored with M Greeley], IDS Research Report 51 (Brighton, UK, 2001).

‗Reconceptualising Transparency: Grassroots Movements for Accountability to the Poor,‘ in United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), Cities In A Globalizing World: Global Report On Human Settlements, (2001), pp. 220-222.

‗Appearances and Reality in Indian Politics: Making Sense of the 1999 General Election,‘ Government and Opposition, vol. 35, no. 1 (2000), pp. 49-66.

‗Accounts and Accountability: Theoretical Implications of the Right-to-Information Movement in India‘ [co-authored with AM Goetz], Third World Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3 (1999), pp. 603-22.

‗Constraints on Civil Society‘s Capacity to Curb Corruption: Lessons from the Indian Experience‘ [co-authored with AM Goetz], IDS Bulletin, vol. 30, no. 4 (October 1999), pp. 39-49.

‗India‘s Electoral Result: An Unholy Alliance Between Nationalism and Regionalism,‘ Briefing Paper No. 42 (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, March 1998).

‗The Continued Democratization of Indian Democracy: Regionalization, Social Change, and the 1996 General Election,‘ Democratization, vol. 4, no. 1 (1996), pp. 57-72.

‗Theorising the Politics of Economic Adjustment: Lessons from the Indian Case,‘ Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. XXIII, no. 1 (1995), pp. 1-24.

‗Liberal Democracy and the Political Management of Structural Adjustment in India: Conceptual Tensions in the Good Government Agenda,‘ IDS Bulletin, vol. 26, no. 2 (April 1995), pp. 37-48.

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‗Where the BJP Survived: The Rajasthan Assembly Elections of 1993,‘ Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 29, no. 11 (12 March 1994), pp. 635-41.

Chapters in Edited Collections

‗Embedding the Right to Information: The Uses of Sector-Specific Transparency Regimes,‘ in Sina Odugbemi and Taeku Lee (eds), Accountability through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2011).

‗State Capitalism: Provincial Governance, Private Enterprise and Protest Politics in India‘s Special Economic Zones,‘ in Sudha Pai (ed), State Politics in India (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012).

‗From Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding: The United Nations and India‘s Quest for Great Power Status,‘ in Devesh Kapur (ed), The Future of India’s Foreign Policy (forthcoming).

‗The Politics of India‘s Special Economic Zones,‘ in Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Sanjay Reddy, and Sanjay Ruparelia (eds), India’s Great Transformation (New York: Routledge, 2011).

‗NGOs and Indian Politics‘, in Niraja Gopal Jayal and Pratap Bhanu Mehta (eds), The Oxford Companion to Indian Politics (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010).

‗Political Skills: Introducing Reform by Stealth,‘ in Rahul Mukherji (ed), India’s Economic Transition: The Politics of Reforms (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 170-201.

‗The Role of Political Institutions in Promoting Accountability,‘ in A Shah (ed), Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption (Washington DC: The World Bank, 2007).

‗Citizen Activism and Public Accountability: Lessons from Case Studies in India‘ [co-authored with AM Goetz], in Alnoor Ebrahim and Edward Weisband (eds), Forging Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and Public Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

‗The Political Economy of Liberalization,‘ in Stanley Wolpert (ed), Encyclopedia of India (New York: Scribner and Sons, 2006).

‗Accountability and the WTO Dispute-Settlement System,‘ in Arthur Benz and Yannis Papadopoulos (eds), Governance and Democracy: Comparing National, European and International Experiences (London: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science, 2006), pp. 252-72.

‗Civil Society: Active or Passive? – The Case of India,‘ in Peter Burnell and Vicky Randall (eds), Politics in the Developing World (Oxford University Press, 2005; revised for 2nd edition, 2008).

‗The NDA and the Politics of Economic Reform‘, in Katherine Adeney and Lawrence Saez (eds), Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism in India (London: Routledge, 2005).

‗Accountability‘ [co-authored with AM Goetz], in Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper (eds), The Social Science Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2004).

‗In Varying States of Decay: The Politics of Anti-Corruption in Maharashtra and Rajasthan,‘ in Rob Jenkins (ed), Regional Reflections: Comparing Politics Across India’s States (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 219-52.

‗The Ideologically Embedded Market: Political Legitimation and Economic Reform in India,‘ in Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann (eds), Markets in Historical Context: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 201-23.

‗Malawi‘ (co-authored with M Tsoka), in David Booth (ed), Fighting Poverty in Africa: Are PRSPs Making a Difference? (London: ODI, 2003), pp. 119-52.

‗Bias and Capture: Corruption, Poverty and the Limits of Civil Society in India‘ (co-authored with AM Goetz), in Marc Blecher and Robert Benewick (eds), Asian Politics in Development (London: Frank Cass, 2003), pp. 109-22.

‗Mistaking Governance for Politics: Foreign Aid, Democracy and the Construction of Civil Society,‘ in Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (eds.), Civil Society: History and Possibilities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 250-68.

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‗The Emergence of the Governance Agenda: Sovereignty, Neo-Liberal Bias and the Politics of International Development,‘ in Vandana Desai & Robert Potter (eds), The Companion to Development Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp 485-89.

‗La Reforme economique liberale et les diverses conceptions de la democratie en Inde,‘ in S. Mappa (ed.), Le Lien social du Nord au Sud (Paris: Karthala, 1999), pp. 328-54.

‗Rajput Hindutva: Caste Politics, Regional Identity, and Hindu Nationalism in Contemporary Rajasthan‘, in Christophe Jaffrelot and Thomas Blom Hansen (eds.), The BJP and the Compulsions of Politics in India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 101-20.

‗The Developmental Implications of Federal Political Institutions in India,‘ in Mark Robinson and Gordon White (eds.), The Democratic Developmental State: Political and Institutional Design (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 187-214.

‗The Politics of Protecting the Poor During Adjustment in India: The Case of Maharashtra,‘ in U. Thakkar and M. Kulkarni (eds.), Politics in Maharashtra (Bombay: Himalaya Publishing, 1995), pp. 195-212.

Reviews

Review of Amaney A. Jamal, Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), in Democratiya, No. 11, Winter 2007.

Review of Paul Kennedy, The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations (New York: Random House, 2006), in Democratiya, No. 7, Winter 2006.

‗Turning Princes into Subjects,‘ Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 38, no. 1 (2000), pp. 103-111.

Review of S.N. Eisenstadt, Paradoxes of Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), British Journal of Sociology, vol. 52, no. 1 (2001), pp. 181-82.

Review of A. Hoogvelt, Globalization and the Post Colonial World (New York: Macmillan, 1997), in Sociological Review, vol. 46, No. 2 (May 1998).

Review of World Bank, India: Sustaining Rapid Economic Growth (Washington, 1997) & M. Pigato et al (eds), South Asia’s Integration into the World Economy (Washington: World Bank, 1997), in Contemporary South Asia, vol. 7, no. 3 (Nov1998), pp. 384-85.

Review of Fatima Mernissi, Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World (New York: Addison-Wesley,1992), in Contemporary South Asia, vol. 5, no. 6, (November 1996).

Review of Barbara Crossette, India: Facing the Twenty-First Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), in Contemporary South Asia, vol. 5, no. 1 (March 1996), pp. 104-06.

Popular Media

‗Arab Spring, Indian Summer,‘ Christian Science Monitor, csmonitor.com, 1 August 2011

‗Women, Food Security and Peacebuilding,‘ openDemocracy.net, 28 June 2011

‗Sexual Violence as a War Tactic: Security Council Resolution 1888, Next Steps,‘ United Nations Chronicle, (co-authored with AM Goetz), vol 47, no 1. (2010).

‗Deepening Democracy by Building Gender Equality,‘ [coauthored with AM Goetz], openDemocracy.net, 18 Jan 2010.

‗The Politics of SEZs in India: Promise and Pitfalls,‘ India in Transition (CASI), 2007, online at casi.ssc.upenn.edu/iit/rjenkins

‗The Middle Classes: Unlikely Allies for Better Governance?,‘ Global Future, No. 3, 2006

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‗UN-Workable: America‘s Movements for World Government During ―The Long 1940s,‖‘ BBK Magazine, Birkbeck College, University of London, Spring 2006.

‗Voice and Accountability in Service Delivery‘ [co-authored with AM Goetz], Development Outreach (Washington, DC: World Bank Institute, March 2004).

‗Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, Oxfam,‘ The Guardian, 7 October 2002.

‗Gender-Sensitive Local Auditing: Initiatives from India to Build Accountability to Women‘ (co-authored with AM Goetz), Development Outreach (Washington, DC: World Bank Institute, Spring 2001).

‗Global Views Can be Short-Sighted,‘ Times Higher Education Supplement, 24 Nov 2000. Review of five books on globalization.

‗Indian Summer Looks Set to Become a Long Autumn,‘ Wall Street Journal, 11 September 2000.

‗The Goa Right to Information Act, One Year On,‘ [co-authored with AM Goetz] Transparency (New Delhi: National Campaign for People‘s Right to Information), March 1999.

‗Politics of Information,‘ [co-authored with AM Goetz] Business India (Mumbai), 4-17 May 1998.

Regular contributor to WorldLink magazine (World Economic Forum), 1997-2000.

‗Rajasthan Assembly Results,‘ Frontline (Chennai), 20 December 1993.

‗Green Democracy in India,‘ The Progressive, May 1990, pp. 15-16.

‗Bhopal: Five Years On,‘ In These Times, 18-31 July 1990, pp. 12-13.

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