“Prerna Singh’s book...presents a radically new and original argument....It provides powerful and novel ideas about how to think about policy and promises to have the same sort of impact on political science that Robert Putnam’s book, Making Democracy Work, has had.”
“Singh’s book struck us as an example of wonderful comparative-historical analysis that directly challenges our core ideas about where variations in national welfare state-efforts come from. She starts with a compelling empirical puzzle and develops a plausible theory, tested both through deep case-based analysis and an appropriately modestly interpreted quantitative analysis.”
Routledge (2013)
Co-edited with Atul Kohli
“The committee for the Luebbert Article Award had our work cut out for us because we had a very large number of nominations. There were 36 submissions in all. After much discussion and deliberation—as we assessed the articles according to a range of criteria including originality, innovativeness, importance for the field, quality of argument, sophistication of theory and quality empirics—we made our choice.”