"Books in My Life" a Tuesday Talk - Peter Mayer

Peter Mayer is Associate Professor and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

He received his education in the United States but has been a South Australian for over 50 years.

A specialist in contemporary India, he has written on many aspects of Indian politics, international relations, economics, history, anthropology and sociology — especially the sociology of suicide. His recent publications have examined issues including: why elections in India appear to defy Duverger's Law of party competition; the declining rate of massacres of India's Dalits; the causal relationship between disease and democracy, and the multiple causes of murder for dowry in India's states.

Although none of these will form part of his talk, he does promise to reveal the secrets of "Mayer's Law".