Anil Kumar Vaddiraju is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India. He holds M.Phil and PhD from the University of Delhi. He has completed MA in Political Science from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior to joining ISEC he has worked in the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Participatory Research in Asia, and Gandhi Peace Centre, Foundation to Aid Industrial Recovery, Indian Institute of Public Administration and the Centre for Studies in Developing Societies. His earlier books include, Sisyphean Efforts: State Policy and Child Labour In Karnataka; Peasantry Capitalism and State: The Political Economy of Agrarian Societies; Decentralized Governance and planning in Karnataka; Land, Labour and Caste: Agrarian Change and Grassroots Politics in Andhra Pradesh, among others. He has earlier published in Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy (SAGE), Studies in Indian Politics (SAGE), Journal of Asian Public Policy (Routledge) and in Economic and Political Weekly (Sameeksha Trust, Mumbai, India) among others. His main research interests are rural and urban governance, policy processes and social and political theory. Besides relying on a 'book view' or secondary data for his research, he usually conducts extensive primary work for his research and studies. His methodological preferences are towards using qualitative methodologies and though he is not against using quantitative data for research.
