Academic writing
Peer-reviewed articles
Ramanathan, Kumar. “From Civil Rights to Social Policy: The Political Development of Family and Medical Leave Policy.” Studies in American Political Development 35, no. 2 (2021): 173-193. doi:10.1017/S0898588X21000018 [ungated version]
Masuoka, Natalie, Kumar Ramanathan, and Jane Junn. “New Asian American Voters: Political Incorporation and Participation in 2016.” Political Research Quarterly 72, no. 4 (2019): 991-1003. doi:10.1177/1065912919843342
Special issue publications
Ramanathan, Kumar. “Reinvigorating American Political Development Scholarship through Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction.” Studies in American Political Development, FirstView (2022). doi:10.1017/S0898588X22000062 [ungated version]
Book reviews
Review of “The Civil Rights Lobby: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction” by Shamira Gelbman. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, FirstView (2022). doi:10.1017/rep.2021.43
Public scholarship
Gender Policy Report
The Anti-Discrimination Roots of “Family and Medical Leave”, November 2021
3Streams blog
The Civil Rights Origins of “Family and Medical Leave”, April 2021
LSE United States Politics and Policy blog
Immigrants are far more engaged in politics than what you may expect (with Natalie Masuoka and Jane Junn), February 2020
Chicago Democracy Project
What’s the matter with Illinois? The Fair Tax Fails (with Tom Ogorzalek and Jacob Wu), March 2021
A View from Downballot: Fractures in Cook County’s Democratic Coalition (with Tom Ogorzalek and Bianca Varlesi), January 2021
The Racial Divide in Chicagoland’s Experiences of Policing (with Matt Nelsen and Tom Ogorzalek), June 2020
Breaking Down Kim Foxx’s Win in the 2020 Primary (with Tom Ogorzalek), March 2020
How Did Chicago’s Segregated Neighborhoods Vote in the Mayoral Election?, March 2019
Toni Preckwinkle and Lori Lightfoot’s Overlapping Bases (with Tom Ogorzalek), March 2019
Political Science Now
I wrote seven public-facing summaries of American Political Science Review research articles for PoliticalScienceNow.com, through the American Political Science Association’s Public Scholarship Program. You can find these pieces here.
Other Writing
APSA Educate blog
Playing Politics: Using Games to Help Students Prepare for Final Assessments (with Justin Zimmerman), June 2021
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