2026 Michael G. Findley: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	32	1013	915	520	449	100	4519

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

792
Citations
Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict

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

331
Citations
Rethinking Third-Party Interventions into Civil Wars: An Actor-Centric Approach

Michael G. Findley;Tze Kwang Teo

261
Citations
Promise and Pitfalls of Terrorism Research

Joseph K. Young;Michael G. Findley

261
Citations
Field experiments in strategy research

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

174
Citations
The localized geography of foreign aid : A new dataset and application to violent armed conflict

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

163
Citations
Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism

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

145
Citations
Terrorism, Democracy, and Credible Commitments†

Michael G. Findley;Joseph K. Young

142
Citations
Radicalism of the Hopeless: Refugee Flows and Transnational Terrorism

Daniel Milton;Megan Spencer;Michael Findley

135
Citations
Games Rivals Play: Terrorism in International Rivalries

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

129
Citations
More Combatant Groups, More Terror?: Empirical Tests of an Outbidding Logic

Michael G. Findley;Joseph K. Young

124
Citations
Political Exclusion, Oil, and Ethnic Armed Conflict

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

119
Citations
Can peace be purchased? A sectoral-level analysis of aid’s influence on transnational terrorism

Joseph K. Young;Michael G. Findley

114
Citations
Rumor Dynamics in Ethnic Violence

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

113
Citations
The downstream effects of combatant fragmentation on civil war recurrence

Peter Rudloff;Michael G Findley

109
Citations
Fighting Fire with Fire? How (Not) to Neutralize an Insurgency

Michael G. Findley;Joseph K. Young

98
Citations
Bargaining and the Interdependent Stages of Civil War Resolution

Michael G. Findley

98
Citations
Lootable resources and third-party intervention into civil wars:

Michael G. Findley;Josiah F. Marineau

81
Citations
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

78
Citations
Citizen preferences and public goods: comparing preferences for foreign aid and government programs in Uganda

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

72
Citations
Using Field Experiments in International Relations: A Randomized Study of Anonymous Incorporation1

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

70
Citations
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

70
Citations
Does Foreign Aid Build Peace

Michael G. Findley

52
Citations
Global Shell Games: List of Figures

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

35
Citations
Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict

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

8
Citations
Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict Supporting Information Appendix

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

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel L. Nielson Brigham Young University

Joseph K. Young University of Kentucky

Jason Campbell Sharman University of Cambridge

Nathan M. Jensen The University of Texas at Austin

Stephan Meier Columbia University

Helen V. Milner Princeton University

James A. Piazza Pennsylvania State University

Victor Asal University at Albany, State University of New York

Paul F. Diehl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Alex Braithwaite University of Arizona

External Links

Personal website of Michael G. Findley

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