Abhisheka Dubey

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abidubey@snu.ac.kr
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Hi! I’m a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Political Science and International Relations (PSIR) Department at Seoul National University. 

My research interests are political behavior, relative deprivation, political efficacy, and Indian politics. My dissertation examines why economically precarious individuals in India hold exclusionary outgroup competition and progressive redistributive preferences by examining the role of economic group relative deprivation and internal efficacy. I propose a two-stage theoretical framework where I argue that the type of preference depends on the status of a referent outgroup against which individuals are made to feel economic relative deprivation (stage 1); and that such comparisons become salient depending on how individuals weigh externally supplied scapegoating information against their priors, which is informed by their level of internal efficacy (stage 2). I explore my research through large-N quantitative analyses, an original in-person survey experiment, qualitative text analysis, fieldwork interviews, and in-depth interviews.

My work is supported by the Seoul National University Asia Center Fieldwork Grant, the Seoul National University PSIR 10-10 Initiative Fieldwork Grant, the Seoul National University Creative-Pioneering Researchers Program, and the Seoul National University Next Generation of Scholars Scholarship.

I earned my B.A. in International Studies from Hanyang University, Seoul, and my M.A. in International Political Economy from S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. I have previously worked at the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Korea, and a start-up, KOSAC, based in Seoul.

I will be an incoming postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS) at Charles University (Prague) from 2027.