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, FirstView (2021): 1-21. doi:10.1017/S0898588X21000018 [ungated]
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
Public scholarship
3Streams blog
Chicago Democracy Project
- What’s the matter with Illinois? The Fair Tax Fails (co-authored with Tom Ogorzalek and Jacob Wu), March 2021
- A View from Downballot: Fractures in Cook County’s Democratic Coalition (co-authored with Tom Ogorzalek and Bianca Varlesi), January 2021
- The Racial Divide in Chicagoland’s Experiences of Policing (co-authored with Matt Nelsen and Tom Ogorzalek), June 2020
- Breaking Down Kim Foxx’s Win in the 2020 Primary (co-authored 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 (co-authored with Tom Ogorzalek), March 2019
LSE United States Politics and Policy blog
- Immigrants are far more engaged in politics than what you may expect (co-authored with Natalie Masuoka and Jane Junn), February 2020
Political Science Now
I wrote eight 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 eight pieces here.
Other Writing
APSA Educate blog
- Playing Politics: Using Games to Help Students Prepare for Final Assessments (co-authored with Justin Zimmerman), June 2021
Miscellaneous
Prior to graduate school, I dabbled in political journalism. You can find this early work at the Somerville Journal, ThinkProgress, the Tufts Observer, and the Tufts Daily.
