Miriam Golden is Peter Mair Chair of Comparative Politics at the European University Institute, where she moved after many years as Professor of Political Science the University of California at Los Angeles. For 2024-25, she will be a visiting fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She is also an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford University. Miriam studies politicians and political representation. She has conducted field work in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America. Her research is problem-oriented. She was part of a team that studied spillovers in election fraud in Ghana, and has been involved in field experiments that partner with politicians in Pakistan. There, she is a Research Fellow in Political Economy at the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP). Her most recent book is The Puzzle of Clientelism: Political Discretion and Elections Around the World, co-authored with Eugenia Nazrullaeva, and her articles have been published in journals that include the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, and Energy Policy.
Miriam Golden is Peter Mair Chair of Comparative Politics at the European University Institute, where she moved after many years as Professor of Political Science the University of California at Los Angeles. For 2024-25, she will be a visiting fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She is also an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford University. Miriam studies politicians and political representation. She has conducted field work in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America. Her research is problem-oriented. She was part of a team that studied spillovers in election fraud in…