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Overview

Matthew S. Winters is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences with a specialization in areas such as sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and development. Additional fields of study include economics and econometrics as well as safety research.

The main topics of their scholarly work focus on international development and aid, religion, society, and development, poverty, education, and child welfare, electoral systems and political participation, local government finance and decentralization, economic growth and development, and political conflict and governance.

Winters has contributed to several academic journals, frequently publishing in venues such as World Development, Political Research Quarterly, Harvard Dataverse, Studies in Comparative International Development, and The Review of International Organizations.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Winters include:

  • Foreign Aid and State-Society Relations: Theory, Evidence, and New Directions for Research (2020), published in Studies in Comparative International Development
  • How Do Different Forms of Foreign Aid Affect Government Legitimacy? Evidence from an Informational Experiment in Uganda (2020), published in Studies in Comparative International Development
  • Influencing the Means but Not the Ends: The Role of Entertainment-Education Interventions in Development (2020), published in World Development
  • Donor Competition and Public Support for Foreign Aid Sanctions (2020), published in Political Research Quarterly
  • Foreign Pressure and Public Opinion in Target States (2023), published in World Development

Collaborations are a significant part of Winters's research activities. Frequent co-authors include Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Masaru Kohno, Gabriella R. Montinola, Kate Baldwin, and Alice Iannantuoni, reflecting recurring partnerships across multiple studies.

Best Publications

  • Lacking Information or Condoning Corruption: When Do Voters Support Corrupt Politicians?

    Matthew S. Winters;Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro

  • The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid

    Joseph Wright;Matthew Winters

  • Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, and Domestic Government Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

    Simone Susanne Dietrich;Minhaj Mahmud;Matthew S. Winters

  • Choosing to Target: What Types of Countries Get Different Types of World Bank Projects

    Matthew Stephen Winters

  • Accountability, Participation and Foreign Aid Effectiveness

    Matthew Stephen Winters

  • The Role of Governance in Determining Foreign Aid Flow Composition

    Matthew S. Winters;Gina Martinez

  • Foreign Aid and Government Legitimacy

    Simone Susanne Dietrich;Matthew S. Winters

  • Can Citizens Discern? Information Credibility, Political Sophistication, and the Punishment of Corruption in Brazil

    Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro;Matthew Stephen Winters

  • Political Participation and Quality of Life

    Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro;Matthew S. Winters

  • Political Participation and Quality of Life

    Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro;Matthew S. Winters

  • Public Service Provision under Conditions of Insufficient Citizen Demand: Insights from the Urban Sanitation Sector in Indonesia

    Matthew Stephen Winters;Abdul Gaffar Karim;Berly Martawardaya

  • The Link Between Voting and Life Satisfaction in Latin America

    Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro;Matthew Stephen Winters

  • An Obsolescing Bargain in Chad: Shifts in Leverage between the Government and the World Bank

    John A. Gould;Matthew S. Winters

  • Foreign Aid and State-Society Relations: Theory, Evidence, and New Directions for Research

    Robert A. Blair;Matthew S. Winters

  • Targeting, Accountability and Capture in Development Projects

    Matthew Stephen Winters

  • How Do Different Forms of Foreign Aid Affect Government Legitimacy? Evidence from an Informational Experiment in Uganda

    Kate Baldwin;Matthew S. Winters

  • Aiding the Virtuous Circle? International Development Assistance and Citizen Confidence in Government in Bangladesh

    Matthew S. Winters;Simone Susanne Dietrich;Minhaj Mahmud

  • Lacking Information or Condoning Corruption: When Will Voters Support Corrupt Politicians?

    Matthew S. Winters;Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro

  • The Obstacles to Foreign Aid Harmonization: Lessons from Decentralization Support in Indonesia

    Matthew S. Winters

  • Partisan Protesters and Nonpartisan Protests in Brazil

    Matthew S. Winters;Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro

  • Who’s in Charge Here? Direct and Indirect Accusations and Voter Punishment of Corruption

    Matthew S. Winters;Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro

  • Influencing the means but not the ends: The role of entertainment-education interventions in development

    Christopher Grady;Alice Iannantuoni;Matthew S. Winters

  • Overseas Credit Claiming and Domestic Support for Foreign Aid

    Simone Dietrich;Susan D. Hyde;Matthew S. Winters

  • Betting on Oil: The World Bank's Attempt to Promote Accountability in Chad

    Matthew S. Winters;John A. Gould

  • Political Corruption and Partisan Engagement: Evidence from Brazil:

    Matthew S. Winters;Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro

  • Petroleum Blues: The Political Economy of Resources and Conflict in Chad

    John A. Gould;Matthew Stephen Winters

Frequent Co-Authors

Seongseop Sam Kim
Seongseop Sam Kim Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright Pennsylvania State University

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