Patrick Heller is an American sociologist and the director of the development research program at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.
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16 Facts About Patrick Heller
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Patrick Heller completed his bachelor's degree in Arts in Sociology and South Asian Studies from University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Patrick Heller then received an MA in Sociology from University of California, Berkeley by 1988.
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Patrick Heller completed his PhD in sociology from University of California, Berkeley in 1994.
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Patrick Heller subsequently won Chancellor's Dissertation-Year Fellowship and John L Simpson Scholarship, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
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Patrick Heller is the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences and professor of Sociology and International Studies at Brown University.
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Patrick Heller has served as a visiting fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Centre for Policy Studies, Johannesburg and as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Durban Westville.
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Patrick Heller's research focuses on the comparative study of social inequality and democratic deepening.
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Patrick Heller has collaborated for several projects with Centre for Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.
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Patrick Heller explores how democratic institutions and practices can promote more inclusive and more participatory forms of development, by focusing primarily on Brazil, India and South Africa.
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Patrick Heller considers Kerala as a case of 'radical social democracy.
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Patrick Heller argues that legacies of egalitarianism, social rights and public trust in Kerala helped the state to encounter the economic and welfare consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic successfully.
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Patrick Heller was invited as a panelist by Kerala Government for the three-day virtual global conclave that seeks to lay down the roadmap for Kerala's long-term development by factoring in perspectives from top economists, industry leaders, administrators and planners amid a changed world order due to COVID-19.
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Patrick Heller argued that rapidly growing cities of Kerala needed to be "States within States", having tremendous autonomy.
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Patrick Heller has 118 scholarly articles and book chapters in International Journals and reputed publishers.
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