Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California. Previously, during the academic year 2022-23, I was the inaugural Gerhard Casper Postdoctoral Fellow in Rule of Law at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in Stanford University. I obtained my PhD in political science at the University of Rochester in 2022. 

My primary research interest lies in the political economy of development. I use an institutional lens and a wide range of methods to analyze bias and...