Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Co-Director, South Asia Studies Program
Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481-8203
781-283-2197 (phone)
781-283-3644 (fax)
ccandlan@wellesley.edu

from September 2009 to May 2010:
Fellow
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1 Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027
202-691-4000 (phone)
christopher.candland@wilsoncenter.org

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Course Syllabi

POL 202 Comparative Politics

POL 204 Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment

POL 211 Politics of South Asia

ENG 289 / POL 289 Literature and Politics of South Asia

POL 309 Seminar: Ethnicity, Nationalism, Religion, and Violence

POL 310 Seminar: Politics of Community Development

Select Publications

RELIGION AND DEVELOPMENT

"Women's Empowerment through Islamic Organizations: The Role of Indonesia's Nahdlatul Ulama in Transforming a Government Birth Control Program into a Family Welfare Program," in Wendy Tyndale, ed., Visions of Development: Spiritually Inspired Initiatives, Aldershot: Ashgate, (2006)

"Pakistan's Recent Experience in Reforming Religious Education" in Robert Hathaway, ed., Education Reform in Pakistan: Building for the Future, Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2006)

reprinted in Jamal Malik, ed., Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching Terror?, Abingdon: Routledge (2007)

"Madaris, Education, Violence, and Failures of the State," in Charles Kennedy and Cynthia Botteron, eds., Pakistan: 2005, Karachi: Oxford University Press, (2005)

"Faith as Social Capital: Religion and Community Development in Southern Asia," in Policy Sciences, 33: 3, (winter 2001) reprinted in John Montgomery and Alex Inkeles, eds., Social Capital as a Policy Resource, Boston: Kluwer,(2001)

LABOR AND DEVELOPMENT

International Labor Review

Book: Labor, Democratization, and Development in India and Pakistan, Abingdon: Routledge (2007)

Contents and Introduction: Wealth, Wellbeing, and Social Institutions
Chapter One: Organized Labor and Democratic Consolidation
Chapter Two: The State and Economic Development
Chapter Three: Organized Labor and Economic Reform
Chapter Four: Reorganizing Industry, Disorganizing Workers
Chapter Five: Organized Labor, Democracy, and Development
Notes
Bibliography
Index

"Workers' Organizations in Pakistan: Why No Role in Formal Politics?" Critical Asian Studies (2007)

"The Political Element in Economic Reform: Labor Institutions and Privatization Patterns in South Asia," in Linda Cook and Marsha Pripstein Posusney, eds., Labor and Privatization: Responses and Consequences in Global Perspective, Brookfield: Edward Elgar, (2002)

"The Cost of Incorporation: Labor Institutions, Industrial Restructuring, and New Trade Union Strategies in India and Pakistan" in The Politics of Labor in a Global Age: Continuity and Change in Late-Industrializing and Post-Socialist Economies, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2001)

Book: The Politics of Labor in a Global Age: Continuity and Change in Late-Industrializing and Post-Socialist Economies, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2001)

"Can Corporate Codes of Conduct Promote Labor Standards? Evidence from the Thai Apparel and Footwear Industries", Bangkok: Thai Labour Campaign, (2000)

"New Social and New Political Unionism: Labour, Industry, and the State in India and Pakistan" in Peter Waterman and Ronaldo Munck, eds., Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation, Basingstoke: Macmillan (1998)

POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT

"The U.S. Greater Middle East Initiative: Implications for Persian Gulf Economies and Polities," Iranian Journal of International Affairs, (Spring 2007)

"Institutional Impediments to Human Development in Pakistan," in Amita Shastri and A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, eds., The Post-Colonial States of South Asia: Democracy, Development, and Identity, London: Curzon Press, (2001)

"Indonesia After Wahid: The New Authoritarianism," Royal Institute of International Relations, Briefing Paper, with Siti Nurjanah, (November 2001)

"Civil Society" in Joel Krieger, ed., Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, New York: Oxford University Press, (2001)

"Social Capital" in Joel Krieger, ed., Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, New York: Oxford University Press, (2001)

Select Conference and Workshop Papers

"How Are International Labor Standards Advanced?" Council on Foreign Relations, New York, October 29, 2004

"Anti-Americanism in Indonesia and Pakistan" Duke University Workshop on Anti-Americanism, Durham, February 21, 2004

"What Do Codes Do?" American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 3, 2004