Jonathan Phillips
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. J.P. Phillips
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- j.p.phillips@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3073-1045
Jonathan Phillips is an Assistant Professor in the Politics of Development at the Institute of Political Science.
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PhD Candidates
Jonathan Phillips is an Assistant Professor in the Politics of Development at the Institute of Political Science.
His research focuses on the political economy and comparative politics of developing countries, seeking to understand the political roots of effective governance. His current research projects focus on:
- Explaining why some politicians abandon clientelism and introduce governance reforms even in poor countries, using data collected from subnational units across multiple federal countries;
- Understanding how household and village networks constrain and empower women’s political participation in India, and how recent increases in women’s participation are likely to alter practices of clientelism;
- Measuring how working for the public sector affects teachers’ political attitudes and policy preferences in Brazil;
- Investigating how the information and influences embedded in social relationships affect citizens’ willingness to accept the Covid-19 vaccine in Nigeria;
- Evaluating how income inequality affects the delivery of public services in Brazilian municipalities.
Jonathan has experience working and conducting field research in Nigeria, Brazil and India. Prior to joining the Institute of Political Science he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo. He currently teaches courses on International Development, the Politics of Public Health in Developing Countries, and a Master’s course on the Politics of Weak Institutions.
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PhD supervision
Jonathan is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:
- Politics of Development
- Comparative politics of developing countries
- Governance Reforms
- Politics of public health
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Assistant Professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
- Phillips Jonathan (2022) How Politics and Economics Work Together to Limit Development: Institutional Complementarities in Brazil. Review of: Taylor Matthew M (2020), Decadent Developmentalism: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Brazilian Political Science Review 16(2).
- Artiz Prillaman S. & Phillips J.P. (2020), How the labor force is mobilized: patterns in informality, political networks, and political linkages in Brazil. In: Lopez-Cariboni S. (Ed.), Political Economy of Informality in BRIC Countries: World Scientific Publishing. 157-191.
- Phillips J.P. (2 February 2018), O que podemos esperar de uma nova geração de políticos?. Jota.
- Grossman S., Phillips J.P. & Rosenzweig L.R. (2017), Opportunistic accountability: state–society bargaining over shared interests, Comparative Political Studies 51(8): 979-1011.
- Phillips J.P., Grossman S. & Rosenzweig L. (23 August 2016), Polio is back in Nigeria, and the next vaccination campaign may have a surprising consequence. The Washington Post.
- Dhillon R.S. & Phillips J.P. (2015), State capability and Rwanda's health gains, The Lancet Global Health 3(6): e308-e310.
- Pan J., Phillips J.P. & Chen Y. (2008), China's balance of emissions embodied in trade: approaches to measurement and allocating international responsibility, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 24(2): 354-376.
- Holt D., Horncastle A. & Phillips J.P. (2006), Capital efficiency at airports and related services, Utilities Policy 14(4): 251-261.
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