Ph.D. Yale University 2007. Professor Yadav’s research focuses on the comparative study of political parties and business and religious interest-groups in developing countries, and the consequences of their interactions for governance, policy outcomes and democracy. She has a special interest in South Asian politics. Her most recent book Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties (Oxford, 2021) won the 2022 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research awarded by the International Science Council, University of Bergen and the European Consortium of Political Research and an Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Her previous books include Political Parties, Business Groups and Corruption in Developing Countries (Oxford, 2011) which won the American Political Science Association’s 2013 Epstein Best Book award and the 2012 Alan Rosenthal Book award; Democracy, Electoral Systems, and Judicial Empowerment in Developing Countries (Michigan 2014)  co-authored with Bumba Mukherjee) and The Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships (Cambridge 2016, co-authored with Bumba Mukherjee). She has also published in Comparative Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Party Politics, International Interactions, Asian Survey, Journal of Open Source Software, and Journal of Public Affairs.