Professional Bio

Bumba Mukherjee (Ph.D.; Columbia University, 2004) is a Professor at Penn State University. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professor at Florida State University, a visiting research scholar at Princeton University, and a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame. His research interests include studying the political economy of populism, political violence, civil conflict and development. He also conducts research in statistical methodology, especially spatial statistics, machine learning and causal inference.

His work has been published in several journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Experimental Economics, Journal of Politics, International Organization, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Mathematics, Political Analysis, and the R Journal, among others.

He is the author of several books including Globalization, Democracy and Trade Policy in the Developing World published by the University of Chicago Press, The Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships (with Vineeta Yadav) published by Cambridge University Press, The Politics of Mass Killing in Autocratic Regimes (with Ore Koren) published by Palgrave Macmillan, Democracy, Electoral Institutions and Judicial Empowerment in Developing Countries (with Vineeta Yadav) published by the University of Michigan Press, Principles of International Political Economy (with Jeff Kucik and Mark Hallerberg) published by Oxford University Press.

His other books include The Rise of Right-Wing Populist Parties and Reversal of Economic Reforms published by Rowman & Littlefield, The IMF, Financial Crisis, and Repression of Human Rights (with Vineeta Yadav) published by Palgrave Macmillan and Economic Nationalism and Democracy in Uncertain Times (Edward Elgar Press). He is currently working on his ninth book Varieties of Populism and the Future of Globalization (with Vineeta Yadav) which is under contract at Cambridge University Press as well as papers on civil conflict and development, and political methodology.