Research
Book Project
In my dissertation and book project, I offer a novel explanation for women’s absence at the top of political hierarchies that centers the role of women’s wings as a separate and unequal institution contributing to this process. I argue that while women’s wings act as a norm-compliant pathway for women to enter politics, bypassing patriarchal resistance to their political participation, they fail to advance women’s careers into the main party organization, which is the locus of decision-making and candidate emergence in a political party. A vast majority of women enter partisan life through the women’s wing but quickly encounter the “political glass wall” separating the women’s wing from the main wing of the party. Women’s wings act as a form of institutional discrimination, exacerbating existing sociopolitical inequalities that explain why some women enter through women’s wings while others enter through the main party organization and preventing women from breaking through the “glass wall’’ to progress forward and upward in their political careers. I provide descriptive and causal evidence from an original survey of 1,054 post-holding elites from two of the largest political parties in India, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Aam Aadmi Party.
Survey Instrument | Pre-Analysis Plan
Peer Reviewed Articles
Siwakoti, Samikshya, Yadav, Kamya, Bariletto, Nicola, Zanotti, Luca, Erdoğdu, Ulaş, and Jacob N. Shapiro. 2021. How COVID drove the evolution of fact-checking. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-69
Other Articles
Yadav, Kamya, Erdoğdu, Ulaş, Siwakoti, Samikshya, Shapiro, Jacob N., and Alicia Wanless. 2021. Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work? Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. https://doi.org/10.1080/00963402.2021.1912111
Siwakoti, Samikshya, Yadav, Kamya, Thange, Isra, Bariletto, Nicola, Zanotti, Luca, Ghoneim, Alaa, and Jacob N. Shapiro. 2021. Localized Misinformation in a Global Pandemic: Report on COVID-19 Narratives Around the World. Empirical Studies of Conflict, Princeton University.
Book Chapter
Yadav, Kamya, Wanless, Alicia, and Samantha Lai. Forthcoming. Multilateral Efforts on Information Integrity: Why Greater Definition is Needed. Springer Handbook on Disinformation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis.
Working Papers
When Gatekeepers Open the Gates: Internal Party Quotas as Reputation Building Strategies
Kinship and Women’s Collective Efficacy in Malawi (Metaketa V)
With Amanda Clayton, Amanda L. Robinson, Boniface Dulani, and Asiyati Cheweza
“It’s My Duty”: How Social Norms May Incentivize Peer-to-Peer Correction of False Claims Online
With Rachel Xu | Pre-Analysis Plan
Works in Progress
Unlocking Urban Democracy: Voter Engagement in Local Level Zambian Politics’
With Leonardo Arriola, Nicholas Dorward, and Melanie Phillips
Candidate Selection and Withdrawal in Urban Politics in Rajasthan, India
With Priyadarshi Amar, Anirvan Chowdhury, and Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra
Gatekeepers of Representation: The Role of Candidate Training Programs on Minority Candidate Supply
With Diana Da In Lee