An Interview with Professor Thibaud Marcesse

Abstract

Thibaud Marcesse is an Assistant Professor of Comparative and South Asian Politics at Boston College. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University in 2018, and his research examines how institutional change in poverty alleviation affects the strategies pursued by political parties in rural India. His recent book, The Accommodation of Democracy: A New Political Economy of Poverty Alleviation in Rural India, analyzes the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Uttar Pradesh and, through quantitative and qualitative data, reveals the existence of democratic accommodation, rather than true democratic deepening, at the local level in India.