Indian politics is deeply complicated, and existing frames don't do it justice. Srikrishna Ayyangar joins Amit Varma in episode 453 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the deep dives he has made in the field, including with innovative methods like set theory.

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Also check out:
1. Srikrishna Ayyangar on LinkedIn, Amazon and NLSIU.
2. A Logic of Populism: India and Its States -- Srikrishna Ayyangar.
3. Administrative Analysis -- Christopher Hood.
4. The Burden of Democracy -- Pratap Bhanu Mehta.
5. The Republic of Apathy (2007) -- Amit Varma.
6. Manish Sabharwal is a Good Ancestor -- Episode 451 of The Seen and the Unseen.
7. 300 Ramayanas — AK Ramanujan.
8. Can Economics Become More Reflexive? — Vijayendra Rao.
9. Biju Rao Won't Bow to Conventional Wisdom — Episode 392 of The Seen and the Unseen.
10. Shaping the Political Arena -- Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier.
11. A Certain Idea of Europe -- Craig Parsons.
12. Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action -- Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock.
13. From Strength to Strength — Arthur Brooks.
14. The Age of the Partial Outsider — Janan Ganesh.
15. State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century — Francis Fukuyama.
16. John Collison's tweet on the world being a museum of passion projects.
17. The Structures of Everyday Life -- Fernand Braudel.
18. The Design of Everyday Things -- Don Norman.
19. What is Populism? — Jan-Werner Müller.
20. Why Both Modi and Trump are Textbook Populists (2017) -- Amit Varma.
21. The Populist Playbook — Episode 42 of Everything is Everything.
22. The Populist Zeitgeist -- Cas Mudde.
23. Populism: Its Meaning and National Characteristics -- Ghita Ionescu and Ernest Gellner.
24. The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America -- Rudiger Dornbusch and Sebastian Edwards.
25. Populism: Concepts in the Social Sciences -- Paul Taggart.
26. A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens.
27. Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Populism in Latin America: The Peruvian Case -- Kenneth Roberts.
28. Populism: What's in a Name? -- Ronaldo Munck.
29. Kiran Ahluwalia Finds Our Aam Zameen -- Episode 328 of The Seen and the Unseen.
30. Facts Don't Matter. Stories do (2016) -- Amit Varma.
31. Barack Obama roasting Donald Trump.
32. A Life in Indian Politics — Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jayaprakash Narayan).
33. Radically Networked Societies — Episode 158 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane).
34. Populism and Hindu Nationalism in India -- Ashutosh Varshney, Srikrishna Ayyangar and Siddharth Swaminathan.
35. The Logic of Social Science -- James Mahoney.
36. Ethnicity and Populist Mobilization -- Narendra Subramanian.
37. A Sixth Of Humanity: Independent India's Development Odyssey -- Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian.
38. Raja Yoga -- Swami Vivekananda.
39. Evolution of Pragmatism in India, The: An Intellectual Biography of BR Ambedkar -- Scott Stroud.

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Ep 453: Srikrishna Ayyangar Examines Populism

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Ep 453: Srikrishna Ayyangar Examines Populism