- Dalit Sarpanches Matter: Political Reservations and the Evolution of Untouchability in Rural India
- “India in Transition” column (CASI, PENN). Also published as” “Panchayati Raj and Untouchability,” Simon Chauchard. The Hindu: Business Line. June 6, 2012
- Hindi version (translated by V.K. Malhotra): https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/sites/casi.sas.upenn.edu/files/iit/%28Hindi%29%20Dalit%20Sarpanches%20Matter%20-%20Simon%20Chauchard.pdf#overlay-context=iit/sundararaman
- “Criminal Politics”: A Byproduct of Ethnic Voting?
- Op-ed published on the Oxford India Policy Blog. May 9, 2013.
- In India, some voters care more about caste, religion than criminality, study finds.
- Write-up of an experiment on caste and criminality in The Star. Feb 28, 2014.
- Why Voters Elect “Criminals”
- Column published in The Indian Express. March 24, 2014.
- The Difficulty of Clientelism in Urban India
- India in Transition” column (CASI, PENN).
- Also published as “Urban India is a Hard Place to Fight Elections,” The Hindu: Business Line. March 29, 2016
- Hindi version: भारत के शहरों में ग्राहकवाद की दिक्कतें)
- Want to Fight Corruption? Work on Campaign Finance Reforms (With Angad Kapur)
- Op-ed published in the Hindustan Times on September 09, 2016.
- Small candidates and ‘vote-cutting’ in Indian elections (With Hanmant Wanole)
- Op-ed published in Mint on February 12, 2018.
- Why Bribes Usually Don’t Buy Votes For Politicians
- Write-up of a recent article on BBCnews (Soutik Biswas).
- The Strategic Logic of Money Flows in Indian Elections
- Post on Ideas for India, July 2018.
- Why are elections getting more expensive in India?
- Op-Ed in Hindustan Times, July 2018.
- Do Indian voters mind their representatives getting rich in office?
- Post on Ideas for India, August 2018.
- Also on Bloomberg/Quint here.
- Why India’s Election Is Among the World’s Most Expensive
- Article on Bloomberg.com by Archana Chaudhary and Jeanette Rodrigues, with input from me. March 11, 2019.
- Is the BJP Better at Misinformation? What the Data Tell Us.
- Op-ed with DJ Flynn and Ritubhan Gautam at The Print, July 2019.
- Is there a way to counter fake news on WhatsApp?
- Op-ed with Sumitra Badrinathan in Hindustan Times, January 28 2020.
- A matter of fact: New study shows how Indians respond to (mis)information on WhatsApp
- Article about co-authored paper with Sumitra Badrinathan. Scroll.in, February 06 2020.