Miriam Golden is Research Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. From 2019 to 2024, she held the Peter Mair Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute. A Guggenheim Fellow, 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). She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Capacity Gaps: Reelection and Governance Around the World. 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 Research Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. From 2019 to 2024, she held the Peter Mair Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute. A Guggenheim Fellow, 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…