“Saving India’s rivers: Ecology, civil society, religion, and legal personhood,” World Development Sustainability 3 (2023) 100068.
“The Bangladesh Paradox” Journal of Democracy,” 20, 4 (2020), 138-150.
“Accountability through participatory budgeting in India: Only in Kerala?” in Shabbir Cheema, ed., Governance for Urban Services: Access, Participation, Accountability and Transparency (New York: Springer Publishing, 2020), 57-76.
“Citizen participation and political accountability for public service delivery in India: Remapping the World Bank’s routes,” Journal of South Asian Development 13 (1), 2018,1-28.
“Identity, dignity and development as trajectory: Bihar as a model for democratic progress in Nepal? Part 2. Nepal’s promise,” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 56 (2), 2018, 216-233.
“Identity dignity and development as trajectory Bihar as a model for democratic progress in Nepal? Part I Bihar s experience,” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 56 (1), 2018, 103-123.
“Party dysfunction and homeostasis in Bangladesh: The old disorder restored (or not),” in Ipshita Basu, Joe Devine, and Geof Wood, eds., Politics and Governance in Bangladesh: Uncertain Landscapes (London: Routledge, 2017), 17-38.
“Constituency development funds in India: Do they invite a political business cycle?” Economic and Political Weekly 52 (31), 5 August 2017, 99-105.
“Civil society advocacy in Bangladesh and the Philippines: A comparative exploration with the Tsukuba surveys,” in Fahimul Quadir and Yukata Tsujinaka, eds., Civil Society in Asia: In Search of Democracy and Development in Bangladesh (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2015), 143-177.
“Constituency needs, constitutional propriety and clientelist patronage: Constituency development funds in India,” in Mark Baskin and Michael L. Mezey, eds., Distributive Politics in Developing Countries: Almost Pork (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014), 167-198.
“Participatory budgeting and local governance,” in Joakim Öjendal and Anki Dellnas, eds., The Imperative of Good Local Governance: Challenges for the Next Decade of Decentralization (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2013), 145-178.
Short article on “Bangladesh” for The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, 3rd edition, Joel Krieger, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 81-83. (earlier articles on Bangladesh for previous editions in 1991 and 2001).
(co-author with Katarina Ammitzboell) “First steps in Post-conflict statebuilding: Establishing critical functions and setting priorities,” in Walter E. Feichtinger, Ernst M. Felberbauer, and Erwin A. Schmidl, eds., International Crisis Management: Squaring the Circle (Vienna: National Defence Academy, 2011), 99-124.
“Gaining state support for social accountability mechanisms,” in Sina Odugbeni and Taeku Lee, eds., Accountability through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action (Washington: World Bank, 2011), 37-52.
“Party overinstitutionalization, contestation and democratic degradation in Bangladesh,” in Paul R. Brass, ed., Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal (London: Routledge, 2010), 98-117.
“Innovations in participatory local governance,” in United Nations, Department of Economic & Social Affairs, Divison for Public Administration & Development Management, Participatory Government and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) (New York: United Nations, 2008), 77-124.
“Building and reinforcing social accountability for improved environmental governance,” in Kulsum Ahmed and Ernesto Sanchez-Triana, eds., Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies: An Instrument for Good Governance (Washington: World Bank, 2008), 127-157.
“Gauging Civil Society Advocacy: Charting Empowerment Pathways,” in Peter Burnell, ed., Evaluating Demcracy Support: Methods and Experiences (Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and Swedish International Development Authority, 2007), 171-192 & 228–239 passim.
“Rebuilding and Reforming Civil Services in Post-Conflict Societies,” in Derick Brinkerhoff, ed., Rebuilding Governance in Post-conflict Societies and Fragile States: Emerging Perspectives, Actors and Approaches (New York: Routledge, 2007) 161-184.