Zainab Firdausi

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ISPS 
Graduate Policy Fellows

Zainab Firdausi

Title 
ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025

Zainab Firdausi is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Theory. She is currently writing her dissertation which investigates plural conceptions of political legitimacy of the administrative state. A strong believer of the need to interact policy with theory, her research interests span democratic theory, economic inequality, modern US history, and legal history. Through ISPS, Zainab seeks to study the quality of democratic participation in administrative policymaking.

Discipline 
Political Science