Dishil Shrimankar

I am a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Manchester. Prior to joining the University, I was a post-doctoral research fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London.  I completed my PhD in political science from the University of Nottingham.  

My research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics, Indian politics and quantitative methods. 

I am currently conducting research on local candidates in Indian elections as part of my Leverhulme Trust funded early career research fellowship. 

My research has been published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Regional and Federal Studies, World Development, and Seminar among others. 

My doctoral dissertation explained the puzzle of why regional parties succeed in some Indian regions, but not in others. I showed that when national parties are decentralized and the regional branch is granted more autonomy, regional parties find it hard to succeed. A second component of the dissertation investigates why some regional branches of national parties have more autonomy where others do not.  

I have mainly taught comparative politics, quantitative methods and Indian politics.