Research

My research currently focuses on both substantive and methodological interests. My substantive interests are in comparative political behavior and political economy, specifically looking at how electoral behavior is affected by economic institutions and features. I supplement this with methodological research questions focused on the ways we can improve our ability to estimate and interpret regression models with a particular emphasis on time-series, spatial, and time-series cross-sectional data.

Publications

  1. Rajan, Reshikesav, and Shane P. Singh. 2025. “Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India.” Electoral Studies 96:102951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102951.
    • See associated University of Georgia feature and ScienceBlog feature.

Works in Progress

  1. Ballot Box Blues: How Compulsory Voting Weakens the Impact of Economic Voting

  2. Rage Against the Machine: What Australian Voters Can Tell Us About Rank-Choice Voting’s Implications

  3. Visualizing the Dynamic Conditional Marginal Effects of Dynamic Regression Models with Multiplicative Interactions with Soren Jordan and Garrett N. Vande Kamp