Rahul Mukherji is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg University in Germany. Current research interests include democratic recession, welfare and environmental politics, and emerging powers. Mukherji has taught at the National University of Singapore (Singapore), the Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), Hunter College (New York) and the University of Vermont (Burlington). He is a Visiting Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai) and an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Global Public Policy at Fudan University (Shanghai). Mukherji edits Indian Politics and Policy and serves on the board of journals such as India Review, Pacific Affairs and Governance. He co-edits the Oxford Institutions and Development in South Asia book series. For further details see: https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/sai/pol/team/mukherji.html .