Emmanuel Teitelbaum

Emmanuel Teitelbaum is Assistant Professor at the Elliott School of International Studies, George Washington University. He will focus his work at USIP on the study of economic transformations and democratic governance in India. In particular, his work will explore how reforms were sequenced to avoid political resistance; how they generated synergistic ties between the state and organized labor; how they have reduced poverty; and how they have affected caste rigidities and inter-caste violence.

Teitelbaum’s teaching and research interests include comparative politics, South Asian politics, development, the political economy of labor, and political violence. He has published articles in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Development Studies and Critical Asian Studies, and his research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. Professor Teitelbaum's doctoral dissertation, "Mobilizing Restraint: Unions and the Politics of Economic Development in South Asia" was awarded the American Political Science Association's Gabriel A. Almond Award for best dissertation in comparative politics.

Teitelbaum received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and his B.A. from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Publications:

• "Was the Indian Labor Movement Ever Co-opted? Evaluating Standard Accounts,” in Rina Agarwala and Ronald Herring, Eds., Whatever Happened to Class? Reflections from South Asia. New York: Routledge, 2008.
• “In the Grip of a Green Giant: How the Rural Sector Tamed Organized Labor in India.” Comparative Political Studies 40 (6), 2007.
• “Does a Developing Democracy Benefit from Labor Repression? Evidence from Sri Lanka.” Journal of Development Studies 43 (5), 2007.