Amy Basu

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PhD Student

Amy Basu is a PhD student in Political Science at Yale University. Her primary research interests lie in the political economy of state capacity development, bureaucracy in mature and emerging economies, and gender representation in advanced democracies (particularly those of Western Europe). Currently, she is working on a project to construct a formal theory of the adoption of gender quotas in advanced democracies.

Department: 
Political Science
Fields of Interest: 
Advanced democracies, state capacity development, gender representation in developed economies
Geography Focus: 
Western Europe
Period Focus: 
Recent