The Department of Humanities & Social Sciences Presents
Is Social Democracy Finished?
A talk by
Professor John Harriss
Friday, 3rd February, 2017
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Faculty Lounge, VC’s Office
Main Academic Block
Professor John Harriss’s areas of research and teaching are political economy of development, Indian politics, political participation and civil society, social policy in ‘emerging economies’, institutional theories and agrarian change. He has a long history of research in and on South Asia, particularly in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and is currently working both on a book on Indian rural society and on a new edition of India Today: Economy, Politics and Society. He is co-editor of Reinventing Social Democratic Development: Insights from India and Scandinavian Comparisons (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2016).
Professor Harriss has served as Dean of the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia, Director of the (then) Development Studies Institute at the London School of Economics, and most recently the founding Director of the School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He served as President of the Development Studies Association in 1996-98, as a managing editor of the Journal of Development Studies (1998-2004); and as Editor-in- Chief of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies (2010-14).
