How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India
“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.”
Woodrow Wilson Award
Best Book on Government, Politics, or International Affairs in 2015
American Political Science Association
“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.”
Barrington Moore Prize
Best Book Published in Comparative Historical Sociology in 2015
American Sociological Association
Handbook of Indian Politics
Routledge (2013)
Co-edited with Atul Kohli
Subnationalism and Social Development: A Comparative Analysis of Indian States
World Politics Vol. 67, No. 3 , July 2015
“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.”
Luebbert Award
Best Article published in Comparative Politics in the last two years
American Political Science Association
Special Issue: Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision
Comparative Political Studies September 2016; 49 (10) and September 2016; 49 (11)
Co-edited with Matthias vom Hau