Rabia Mailk is a Research Fellow at CERP. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, since July 2020. Prior to this she was a Post-Doctoral Associate at New York University Abu Dhabi and has spent a year at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) as an Assistant Professor in Political Science. Dr Rabia’s research focuses on comparative politics in developing countries with a particular interest in distributive politics and development, political accountability, clientelism, gender, and political participation in the context of Pakistan, and other South Asian countries. She has been published in the Journal of Politics, The British Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Rochester in 2016.