HARRISS, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University

John Harriss is a leading authority on the politics of development, and on politics, society and economic change in India. His work both on caste and agrarian change in India, and on regime types and poverty alleviation, has been seminal. His interdisciplinary research speaks to the power relations upon which institutions are founded, to the concepts of social capital and civic engagement, and to the discourse on development and democracy.