Biography
Sarah Shair-Rosenfield is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of York. Her research investigates the way that political actors are constrained by rules and institutions, how actors may subsequently affect the structure of those institutions in pursuit of specific policies and outcomes, and whether certain traits or characteristics of political actors, whether groups or individuals, can affect the interdependent relationship between actors’ choices and the institutions in which they operate. She is a collaborator on the Regional Authority Index, a widely-used measure of decentralised governance from 1960 to 2018, has been invited to consult with the United Nations and United States Agency for International Development. She is joint Editor-in-Chief of Political Studies, has recently convened multiple early career training programmes funded by the British Academy, American Political Science Association, and Political Studies Association, and is a co-founder of the Women in Southeast Asian Social Sciences (WiSEASS) network. Relevant publication: Electoral Reform and the Fate of New Democracies: Lessons from the Indonesian Case (2019 University of Michigan Press)
1P Mixed Methods Research – Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
