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Dr. Sameen A. Mohsin Ali
Assistant Professor
Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences
sameen.ali@lums.edu.pk
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Sameen A. Mohsin Ali is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Mushtaq Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS). She completed her PhD in Politics and International Studies from SOAS University of London in 2018. Her doctoral work focused on bureaucratic politics and patterns of governance in Pakistan, with a particular focus on the education and irrigation bureaucracies in Punjab.

Her wider research and teaching interests include state capacity, bureaucratic performance, and party politics in South Asia, public health governance, and the politics of donor engagement in LMICs. Her work has been published in World Development and Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, and she has also contributed a book chapter to an edited volume published by Georgetown University Press. 

Dr Ali is currently working on a project titled “Understanding Pakistan’s Immunization Problem: A transactional approach”, with public health expert Dr Samia W. Altaf. The project is funded by the Shahid Hussain Foundation's Public Health Research Grant 2018-19 and 2019-20, and by the LUMS Faculty Initiative Fund 2020. She is co-PI on a project with women's rights NGO Shirkat Gah. and is also working on a project on women in public service.

Dr Ali is a faculty lead at the Technology for People Initiative (TPI), a non-profit applied research centre based at LUMS, and a fellow of the Mahbub-ul-Haq Research Centre.

Refereed Journal Publications

Ali, S. (2020). Party patronage and merit-based bureaucratic reform in Pakistan. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 58 (2), 184-201.

Ali, S. (2020). Driving participatory reforms into the ground: The bureaucratic politics of irrigation management transfer in Pakistan. World Development.

Book Chapters

Ali, S. (2020). Governance amid Crisis: Delegation, Personal Gain, and Service Delivery in Pakistan, Published. Mariam Mufti, Sahar Shafqat, and Niloufer Siddiqui (Eds.), Pakistan's Political Parties: Surviving between Dictatorship and Democracy, (pp. 178-194), Georgetown University Press.

Presentations

Ali, S. (2020). Networks of effectiveness? The impact of politicization on bureaucratic performance in Pakistan. Development Studies Association, Virtual, Virtual.

Ali, S. (2019). Delivering 'Good Governance': The Politicisation of Bureaucratic Appointments in Pakistan. AAS-in-Asia 2019 Annual Conference, Bangkok, Thailand.

Ali, S. (2019). Party patronage and merit-based bureaucratic reform in Pakistan. MPSA, Chicago, United States of America.

Ali, S. (2019). Party Patronage and Merit-based Bureaucratic Reform in Pakistan. Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference (ESID), Global Development Institute, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Ali, S. (2019). 'Party Patronage and Merit-based Bureaucratic Reform in Pakistan'. Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference (ESID), Global Development Institute, Manchester 2 Sameen A. Mohsin Ali September 2019. Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Ali, S. (2019). Party Patronage and Merit-based Bureaucratic Reform in Pakistan. Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference (ESID), Global Development Institute, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Ali, S. (2019). 'Party Patronage and Merit-based Bureaucratic Reform in Pakistan'. Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference (ESID), Global Development Institute, Manchester 2 Sameen A. Mohsin Ali September 2019. Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Ali, S. (2017). 'Patronage and Bureaucratic Discretion: From Localities to Lahore'. White Rose South Asia Network Graduate Workshop, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.

Ali, S. (2017). '"Wolves of the Antechamber": Bureaucratic Politicisation and the Politics of Delivery in Punjab, Pakistan'. British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS), University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Ali, S. (2016). 'Bureaucratic Politicization & Governance in Punjab, Pakistan'. Development Studies Association (DSA) Annual Conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Ali, S. (2016). 'Bureaucratic Politicization & Governance in Punjab, Pakistan'.. State, Society, and Democracy in the Post Colony Conference, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan.

Ali, S. (2014). 'Election Management & Party Decision Making in Pakistan'. European Conference on South Asian Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Ali, S. (2014). 'Election Management & Party Decision Making in Pakistan'. Political Studies Association 2014 Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Ali, S. (2014). 'Politicization of the bureaucracy and political inequality in Pakistan'. Pakistan Workshop – Bureaucracy, State, Society, and Networks, Lake District, United Kingdom.

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