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Michael G. Findley publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael G. Findley sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 100 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Michael G. Findley D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael G. Findley sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael G. Findley is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Development, General Health Professions, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their work addresses a range of topics including:

  • International Development and Aid
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Natural Resources and Economic Development

Michael G. Findley has contributed to several recent papers, among them:

  • External Validity (2021) published in Annual Review of Political Science
  • Do Natural Resources Really Cause Civil Conflict? Evidence from the New Global Resources Dataset (2022) published in Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • Vulnerability in research ethics: A call for assessing vulnerability and implementing protections (2024) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Electoral Institutions and Electoral Cycles in Investment Incentives: A Field Experiment on Over 3,000 U.S. Municipalities (2020) published in American Journal of Political Science
  • 'The Swarm Principle': A Sub-National Spatial Analysis of Aid Targeting and Donor Coordination in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020) published in Stability International Journal of Security and Development

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Daniel Nielson
  • Michael Callen
  • Miguel Fajardo-Steinhäuser
  • Tarek Ghani
  • J. C. Sharman

Michael G. Findley's research has appeared in various publication venues, with multiple contributions to the following:

  • American Journal of Political Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Studies Quarterly
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Annual Review of Political Science

Best Publications

  • More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData

    Michael J. Tierney;Daniel L. Nielson;Darren G. Hawkins;J. Timmons Roberts

  • Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict

    Richard A. Nielsen;Michael G. Findley;Zachary S. Davis;Tara Candland

  • Rethinking Third-Party Interventions into Civil Wars: An Actor-Centric Approach

    Michael G. Findley;Tze Kwang Teo

  • Promise and Pitfalls of Terrorism Research

    Joseph K. Young;Michael G. Findley

  • Field experiments in strategy research

    Aaron K. Chatterji;Michael Findley;Nathan M. Jensen;Stephan Meier

  • The localized geography of foreign aid : A new dataset and application to violent armed conflict

    Michael G. Findley;Josh Powell;Daniel Strandow;Jeff Tanner

  • Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism

    Michael G. Findley;Daniel L. Nielson;Jason Campbell Sharman

  • Terrorism, Democracy, and Credible Commitments†

    Michael G. Findley;Joseph K. Young

  • Radicalism of the Hopeless: Refugee Flows and Transnational Terrorism

    Daniel Milton;Megan Spencer;Michael Findley

  • Games Rivals Play: Terrorism in International Rivalries

    Michael G. Findley;James A. Piazza;Joseph K. Young

  • More Combatant Groups, More Terror?: Empirical Tests of an Outbidding Logic

    Michael G. Findley;Joseph K. Young

  • Political Exclusion, Oil, and Ethnic Armed Conflict

    Victor Asal;Michael Findley;James A. Piazza;James Igoe Walsh

  • Can peace be purchased? A sectoral-level analysis of aid’s influence on transnational terrorism

    Joseph K. Young;Michael G. Findley

  • Rumor Dynamics in Ethnic Violence

    Ravi Bhavnani;Michael G. Findley;James H. Kuklinski

  • The downstream effects of combatant fragmentation on civil war recurrence

    Peter Rudloff;Michael G Findley

  • Fighting Fire with Fire? How (Not) to Neutralize an Insurgency

    Michael G. Findley;Joseph K. Young

  • Bargaining and the Interdependent Stages of Civil War Resolution

    Michael G. Findley

  • Lootable resources and third-party intervention into civil wars:

    Michael G. Findley;Josiah F. Marineau

  • Who Controls Foreign Aid? Elite versus Public Perceptions of Donor Influence in Aid-Dependent Uganda

    Michael G. Findley;Adam S. Harris;Helen V. Milner;Daniel L. Nielson

  • Citizen preferences and public goods: comparing preferences for foreign aid and government programs in Uganda

    Helen V. Milner;Daniel L. Nielson;Michael G. Findley

  • Using Field Experiments in International Relations: A Randomized Study of Anonymous Incorporation1

    Michael G. Findley;Daniel L. Nielson;Jason Campbell Sharman

  • Can Results-Free Review Reduce Publication Bias? The Results and Implications of a Pilot Study:

    Michael G. Findley;Nathan M. Jensen;Edmund J. Malesky;Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • Does Foreign Aid Build Peace

    Michael G. Findley

  • Global Shell Games: List of Figures

    Michael G. Findley;Daniel L. Nielson;J. C. Sharman

  • Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict

    Michael Findley;Rich Nielsen;Tara Candland;Daniel L. Nielson

  • Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict Supporting Information Appendix

    Richard A. Nielsen;Michael G. Findley;Zachary S. Davis;Tara Candland

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel L. Nielson
Daniel L. Nielson Brigham Young University
Joseph K. Young
Joseph K. Young University of Kentucky
Jason Campbell Sharman
Jason Campbell Sharman University of Cambridge
Helen V. Milner
Helen V. Milner Princeton University
Nathan M. Jensen
Nathan M. Jensen The University of Texas at Austin
Stephan Meier
Stephan Meier Columbia University
James A. Piazza
James A. Piazza Pennsylvania State University
Aaron K. Chatterji
Aaron K. Chatterji Duke University
Victor Asal
Victor Asal University at Albany, State University of New York
Paul F. Diehl
Paul F. Diehl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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