Building Social Mobility
Cambridge Core - South Asian Government, Politics and Policy - Building Social Mobility
How can housing subsidies change the trajectory of beneficiaries’ lives?
CEGA faculty affiliate @tanukumar.com’s new book explores how subsidized home ownership in India shapes beneficiaries’ economic, social, and political behavior.
Learn more: go.cega.org/buildingsocialmobility
14.11.2025 22:04
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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.
"... 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 📚
14.08.2025 07:45
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thank you for reading and sharing!
02.07.2025 23:38
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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...
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.
02.07.2025 19:45
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To what extent do we think he’s still using the same strategy…???
26.06.2025 17:07
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Are primaries and general elections different, and primaries in places where the general will be competitive?
26.06.2025 00:24
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Sure many academic books are padded articles but also
29.05.2025 21:53
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Terps 🤩
JuJu 💔
25.03.2025 02:45
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Thanks Thiago!
07.03.2025 23:36
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Thanks Anjali!
07.03.2025 23:36
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Thanks Stuart!
07.03.2025 23:36
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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.
07.03.2025 16:02
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Thank you :)
07.02.2025 06:51
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My book, Building Social Mobility is available for preorder! shorturl.at/jlgQv
31.01.2025 16:15
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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!
06.01.2025 17:39
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Screencap showing the jump from Oct 4 to 15
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
31.12.2024 14:41
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Statement by President Jimmy Carter included on the Voyager Golden Record: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/voyager-spacecraft-statement-the-president
"We are attempting to survive our time, so we may live into yours."
14.07.2024 03:30
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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!”
You know it’s bad when even Trump is pity posting through it 💀
18.12.2024 23:05
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GLD Policy Brief No.26: "Mind the Gap: Citizen-led Efforts to Build Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Rural India."
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.
09.12.2024 13:50
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we'd really be able to boost our leverage of franklin pierce and longfellow
07.12.2024 01:07
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i bet uc berkeley goes way down once school size is accounted for
06.12.2024 21:02
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Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets.
Interstellar
Michael Kaine
05.12.2024 05:17
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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?
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...
02.12.2024 20:22
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🎉 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...
A brief summary: 1/n
29.11.2024 14:00
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Just watched ucla wbb CRUSH South Carolina. Insane!!
25.11.2024 00:06
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You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇.
t.co/aJ0SOwyCge
14.11.2024 05:45
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can you add me please? Thank you!
20.11.2024 19:45
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