糖心原创

School of Politics and International Relations
 

Image of Katharine Adeney

Katharine Adeney

Professor of Comparative Politics, Faculty of Social Sciences

Contact

Biography

Professor Katharine Adeney is a leading scholar in Comparative Politics with a particular focus on South Asia. She joined the 糖心原创 in 2013, following academic appointments at Sheffield, Balliol College Oxford, LSE, and SOAS. Her research explores majoritarianism in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; ethnic conflict regulation and institutional design; national identity formation; federalism; and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. She is currently co-authoring a monograph on Majoritarian Nationalisms in South Asia with Prof Wilfried Swenden.

Katharine is a dedicated and innovative educator with a strong commitment to inclusive teaching practices. Her modules-ranging from the Politics of Ethnic Conflict, Introduction to Comparative Politics, How Voters Decide, and the International Politics of the Asia Pacific-are deeply informed by her research on South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan. At the same time, she actively draws on the diverse national contexts and lived experiences of her students, encouraging them to critically engage with theoretical frameworks through their own perspectives.

She is a passionate advocate for decolonising the curriculum and was a member of the Faculty of Social Sciences group that produced the Guide for Reflection and Action. In recognition of this work, the group received a Lord Dearing Award in 2023 for excellence in Learning and Teaching. Katharine has also been nominated multiple times for a Staff Oscar and in 2024-25 was nominated for a Lord Dearing Award for exceptional student support. Her engagement with pedagogical research spans over a decade, beginning with her 2008 ESRC-funded project with Dr Sean Carey on

You can follow her on and .

Expertise Summary

Majoritarianism in South Asia, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Democracy in South Asia, Ethnic conflict in South Asia, Comparative federalism, Inclusiveness of Assessments in HE, Innovative Assessments in HE.

Teaching Summary

Her primary teaching commitments have been to modules relating to questions of ethnic conflict, nationalist movements and institutional design, as well as the International Politics of the Asia… read more

Research Summary

Majoritarianism in South Asia

She is currently co-authoring a monograph on Majoritarianisms in South Asia with Professor Wilfried Swenden (Edinburgh) building on their joint paper on whether India can be understood as a and her framework in for assessing degrees of ethnic democracy in different countries, applied to India as a case study. Their framework for understanding different types of majoritarian nationalisms was recently published in a .

De/Centralization Dataset

She has created an open access dataset on in collaboration with Dr Filippo Boni (Open University). This dataset produces annual codes through expert analysis of levels of de/centralization in Pakistan's federation between 1956 and 2020 (also covering East Pakistan until 1971). It includes three politico-institutional measures, the legislative and administrative autonomy of 22 policy areas and five fiscal areas. The first research paper appearing from this dataset appeared in in 2022. A further paper, situating Pakistan within other federations with a chequered democratic history appeared in . Both are free to view, open access papers.

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

Together with Dr Filippo Boni (Open University) she has been publishing on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor since 2020 when the paper on CPEC and Federalism appeared in . In 2021 they co-authored a report on for the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace's China Local/Global project. See her participating in a Carnegie panel discussion on this report In 2024 they published an article in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics on , which is free to access and download.

Selected Publications

  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and SWENDEN, WILFRIED, 2024. Studies in Indian Politics. 12(2), 164-182
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and BONI, FILIPPO, 2024. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. 62(3), 275-95
  • KATHARINE ADENEY and FILIPPO BONI, 2023. Regional and Federal Studies. 33(5), 725-753
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2021. Nations and Nationalism. 27(2), 393-411

Ph.D. supervision

I am interested in supervising students working on the following areas:

Linguistic nationalism in India or Pakistan, either at the national or the state/provincial level.

Majoritarianism in India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka.

Areas of current Ph.D. supervision

Raian Hossain Small powers in South and East Asia

Supervision as first supervisor of successfully completed Ph.D. theses

Citizenship and Kashmiris (Dr Tusharika Deka)

Economic Diplomacy in Pakistan: Relations with China (Dr Khalid Jarral)

Party competition and fractionalization in India (Dr Dishil Shrimankar)

What do Sino-Pakistani Relations tell us about civil-military Relations in Pakistan? (Dr Filippo Boni)

The impact of sectarianism on democratic consolidation in Iraq (Dr Sangar Mantki)

Bottom-up and Top Down Nationalism in China (Dr Oana Burcu)

A comparison of the use of religious rhetoric in Iraq 2004-5 (Dr Simon Staffell)

Supervision as second or joint supervisor of successfully completed Ph.D. theses

One party dominance and federalism in Malaysia (Dr Tricia Yeoh)

The Evolution of Counter-Insurgency Doctrine in Pakistan (Dr Khurrum Siddiqui)

Counter Cultures in Israel (Dr Veronika Poniscjakova)

Rising China and India: Peace or Threat? (Dr Lan-Shu Tseng)

The Women's Movement in Brazil

Politics and the Party System of Bangladesh

Her primary teaching commitments have been to modules relating to questions of ethnic conflict, nationalist movements and institutional design, as well as the International Politics of the Asia Pacific, Comparative Politics, How Voters Decide and Global Asia. All these modules are informed by her previous and current research on the countries of South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan. However, she is interested in learning more about the countries of her students as they relate to questions raised on the modules.

She was a member of the Decolonising the Curriculum Faculty of Social Sciences group involved in producing a . In 2023 this group won a Lord Dearing award, celebrating excellence in Learning and Teaching.

In addition to her Lord Dearing Award she has been nominated for a Staff Oscar multiple times and is a committed teacher, having gained teaching experience at four other institutions (Sheffield, Oxford, LSE and SOAS). She has completed an HEA accredited Certificate in Learning and Teaching and is keen to develop her students' analytical skills. She uses Problem Based Learning in her undergraduate and postgraduate teaching - and has produced a Game of Thrones inspired guide to constitutional design in divided societies as well as to electoral systems. You can view her YouTube video of five different electoral systems applied to the world of Westeros .

Past Research

Her doctoral research at the LSE was a comparative analysis of federalism and ethnic conflict regulation in India and Pakistan. Building on that research enabled her to publish more widely on national identity in India, and on the politics of identity in the constitution making process in Afghanistan.

She has also published on understanding the different outcomes of democratisation in South Asia, together with Andrew Wyatt at the University of Bristol.

She has most recently engaged with developments in the federal system of Pakistan, after the 18th Amendment passed in 2010. This was informed by her engagement with the program in the country as Lead Consultant.

She was a key member of the Leverhulme funded network: ''. This project ran between 2014 and 2016 and was in collaboration with the Universities of Edinburgh and Bristol in the UK and the University of Delhi, Hyderabad University and Burdwan University in India.

She organised and edited the blog through the Ballots and Bullets blog, founded and is a regular media commentator.

Future Research

AI in Assessments

How Assessments can be made more inclusive.

  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and SWENDEN, WILFRIED, 2025. Ethnicities.
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and BONI, FILIPPO, 2024. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. 62(3), 275-95
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and SWENDEN, WILFRIED, 2024. Studies in Indian Politics. 12(2), 164-182
  • LEE, DON S, CASAL B脡RTOA, FERNANDO and ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2024. Political Research Exchange. 6(1),
  • KATHARINE ADENEY and FILIPPO BONI, 2023. Regional and Federal Studies. 33(5), 725-753
  • DARDANELLI, PAOLO, KINCAID, JOHN, ADENEY, KATHARINE, MOSCOVICH, LORENA, OLMEDA, JUAN CRUZ, SCHLEGEL, ROGERIO, SUBERU, ROTIMI, BONI, FILIPPO and EUSSLER, SANTIAGO LACROIX, 2023. Regional & Federal Studies. 33(5), 577-606
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2022. Seminar Magazine. 754, 25-30
  • KATHARINE ADENEY and FILIPPO BONI, 2022. UK Data Service.
  • SWENDEN, WILFRIED and ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2021. Democracy and Federalism in India: Mutually Reinforcing?. In: BENZ, ARTHUR and SONNICKSEN, JARED, eds., Federal Democracies at Work. Varieties of Complex Government University of Toronto Press. 218-238
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2021. Nations and Nationalism. 27(2), 393-411
  • KATHARINE ADENEY and FILIPPO BONI, 2021. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • BONI, FILIPPO and ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2020. Asian Survey. 60(3), 441-465
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and SWENDEN, WILFRIED, 2019. Swiss Political Science Review. 25(4), 450-75
  • KATHARINE ADENEY and HARIHAR BHATTACHARYYA, 2018. Regional and Federal Studies. 28(4), 409-425
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2018. Available at: <http://50shadesoffederalism.com/federalism-conflict/divide-rule-federal-innovation-lack-south-asia/>
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2017. Democratization. 24(1), 119-137
  • KATHARINE ADENEY, 2017. India Review. 16(1), 125-148
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2015. Representation. 50(1), 7-21
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and TAGGART, PAUL, 2015. Government and Opposition. 50(3), 325-335
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and TAGGART, PAUL, 2015. Government and Opposition. 50(3), 325-548
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2015. Political Insight. 6(1), 28-31
  • ADENEY, K., 2012. Publius: The Journal of Federalism. 42(4), 539-565
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and WYATT, ANDREW, 2010. Contemporary India Palgrave.
  • ADENEY, K., 2009. Ethnopolitics. 8(1), 87-106
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2009. Electoral Studies. 28(1), 158-63
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and CAREY, SEAN, 2009. Politics. 29(3), 193-200
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and CAREY, SEAN, 2009. . In: PAYNE, G and WILLIAMS, M, eds., Teaching Quantitative Methods: Counting on the Social Sciences Sage. 85-98
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2009. Nationalism. In: MCLEAN, I and MCMILLAN, A, eds., The Concise Dictionary of Politics Third. OUP. 357-359
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and CAREY, SEAN, 2009. At: University of Essex, Department of Government National Centre for Social Research
  • CAREY, SEAN and ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2009.
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and CAREY, SEAN, 2009.
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2008. Asian Survey. 48(4), 535-557
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and WYATT, ANDREW, 2008. Ethnicity, Identity and Nationalism in Developing Countries. In: DESAI, VANDANA and POTTER, R, eds., The Companion to Development Studies, Second Edition Hodder Arnold. 481-85
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2008. ippr Commission on National Security: Background Briefing.
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2007. Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in India and Pakistan Palgrave.
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2007. Ethnopolitics. 6(1), 117-120
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2007. Newsbrief (Royal United Services Institute). 27(6), 65-67
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2007. XIV(1), 41-52
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2007. . In: HE, B, GALLIGAN, B and INOGUCHI, T, eds., Federalism in Asia Edward Elgar. 101-123
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2005. . In: ADENEY, KATHARINE and S脕EZ, LAWRENCE, eds., Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism Routledge. 97-115
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and LALL, MARIE, 2005. India Review. 4(3-4), 258-86
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and SAEZ, LAWRENCE, eds., 2005. Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism Routledge.
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2004. . In: SCHNECKENER, U and WOLFF, S, eds., Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts: Comparative Perspectives from Africa, Asia, and Europe Hurst. 161-75
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and WYATT, ANDREW, 2004. Political Studies. 52(1), 1-18
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2003. The Global Review of Ethnopolitics. 2(2), 57-9
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2003. Centrifugal and Centripetal Elements of Indian Federalism. In: MITRA, SUBRATA and RILL, BERND, eds., Indien heute: Bennpunkte seiner Innenpolitik (India Today: Domestic Priorities) http://www.hss.de/downloads/internetargu41.pdf. Hans Seidel Stiftung. 47-54
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE, 2002. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. 40(3), 8-33
  • ADENEY, KATHARINE and WYATT, ANDREW, 2001. . In: HAYNES, JEFF, ed., Towards Sustainable Democracy in the Third World Palgrave. 113-40

School of Politics and International Relations

Law and Social Sciences building
糖心原创
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

Contact us