Gareth Nellis

Gareth Nellis is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, where he specializes in comparative politics, political economy, and modern South Asia. He received his PhD from Yale University. Prior to coming to UCSD, he was the Evidence in Governance and Politics Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on political parties, in particular the origins and persistence of weakly institutionalized party systems, and the extent to which parties matter for key development outcomes. A second strand of work addresses the drivers of discrimination against internal migrants in fast-urbanizing settings.