Katharine Adeney is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield, where she has worked since 2004. Previously she was a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at Balliol College, University of Oxford (2001-2004) and Tutorial Fellow in Comparative Politics in the Government Department of the London School of Economics (1999-2001). She is a graduate of the Government Department of the London School of Economics. She is a member of the Political Studies Association of the UK´s Executive Committee, co-editor of Political Studies (Blackwells), and a member of the Editorial Boards of Government and Opposition (Blackwells) and Ethnopolitics (Routledge).

Her principal research interests include: the countries of South Asia, especially India, Pakistan and Afghanistan; ethnic conflict regulation and institutional design (especially federalism and power sharing institutions); the creation and maintenance of national identities; the politics of federal states, and democratisation in South Asia.  She is currently working on the relationship between Pakistan´s chequered democratic history and regionalism in Pakistan. 

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Selected Publications:

• Adeney, K. (2009). 'The limitations of non-consociational federalism - the example of Pakistan' Ethnopolitics, 8 (1): 87-106
• Adeney, K. (2009). 'The federal election in Pakistan, February 2008' Electoral Studies, 28 (1): 158-163
• Adeney, K. (2008). 'Constitutional design and the political salience of “community” identity in Afghanistan: prospects for the emergence of ethnic conflicts in the post-Taliban era', Asian Survey, 48 (4): 535-557
• Adeney, K. (2008) “Bad news makes headlines: security challenges posed by Pakistan” IPPR Commission on National Security, Background Briefing Note 1.
• Adeney, K. (2007). Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in India and Pakistan, New York: Palgrave
• Adeney, K., & Sáez, L. (eds.) (2005). Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism, London: Routledge.
• Adeney, K. (2007). “What Comes after Musharraf?” Brown Journal of World Affairs, XIV (1): 41-52..
• Adeney, K. (2007). “Democracy and Federalism in Pakistan,” in B. He et al (eds.) Federalism in Asia, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 101-123
• Adeney, K., & Sáez, L. (eds.) (2005). Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism, London: Routledge.
• Adeney, K., & Lall, M. (2005). “Institutional Attempts to build a national identity in India: internal and external dimensions,” India Review, 4 (3), 258-86
• Adeney, K., & Wyatt, A. (2004). “Democracy in South Asia: Getting Beyond the Structure-Agency Dichotomy,” Political Studies, 52 (1), 1-18
• Adeney, K. (2002). “Constitutional centring: nation formation and consociational federalism in India and Pakistan.” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 40 (3), 8-33.