Alison Post visited Georgetown University to speak about her work on public goods and distributive politics. Post discussed her paper "From Public Service Access to Service Quality: The Distributive Politics of Piped Water in Bangalore," which focused on intermittent access to water. The lecture was followed by a 30 minute Q&A session.
This event was co-sponsored by Georgetown’s Center for Latin American Studies and the Current Research on Issues and Topics In Comparative Scholarship series (CRITICS).
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Alison Post is an associate professor of political science and global metropolitan studies and co-director of the Global Metropolitan Studies Program at University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the intersection of comparative urban politics and comparative political economy, with particular emphasis on infrastructure and urban policy in Latin America and South Asia. She is the author of Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure (2014). She holds a PhD in government from Harvard University.