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  • 2014 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Miriam A. Golden is affiliated with the European University Institute in Italy. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences with a focus on political science and international relations. The scholar's work extensively covers topics including corruption and economic development, politics and society in Latin America, political influence and corporate strategies, electoral systems and political participation, social policy and reform studies, international development and aid, and advanced causal inference techniques.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Miriam A. Golden are:

  • Politics in Poor Places? Clientelism and Elections in Democracies, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Gathering, Evaluating, and Aggregating Social Scientific Models, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Other publications related to Golden's collaborative projects include:

  • Inaccurate forecasting of a randomized controlled trial, 2023, Journal of Experimental Political Science
  • The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World's Democracies, 2025, British Journal of Political Science
  • Replication Data for: Inaccurate Forecasting of a Randomized Controlled Trial, 2023, Harvard Dataverse

Frequent coauthors contributing alongside Golden include:

  • Matteo Francesco Ferroni
  • Raymond Fisman
  • Eugenia Nazrullaeva
  • Mats Ahrenshop
  • Saad Gulzar

Golden's work has appeared repeatedly in several academic venues, reflecting focused research activity. Main publication outlets include:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • British Journal of Political Science
  • Journal of Experimental Political Science
  • Harvard Dataverse

In addition to articles, Golden has also contributed to scholarly books. Published titles include:

  • The Puzzle of Clientelism, Cambridge University Press, 2023
  • Bargaining for Change, Cornell University Press eBooks, 2020

Their research spans several subfields, encompassing political science and international relations, sociology and political science, strategy and management, development studies, and statistics and probability.

Miriam A. Golden received the Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2014, recognizing scholarly contributions within their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • PROPOSAL FOR A NEW MEASURE OF CORRUPTION, ILLUSTRATED WITH ITALIAN DATA

    Miriam A. Golden;Lucio Picci

  • Distributive Politics Around the World

    Miriam Golden;Brian Min

  • Electoral Systems, District Magnitude and Corruption

    Eric C. C. Chang;Miriam A. Golden

  • Legislative Malfeasance and Political Accountability

    Eric C. C. Chang;Miriam A. Golden;Seth J. Hill

  • Electoral Connections: The Effects of the Personal Vote on Political Patronage, Bureaucracy and Legislation in Postwar Italy

    Miriam A. Golden

  • Unions, Employers' Associations, and Wage-Setting Institutions in Northern and Central Europe, 1950–1992

    Michael Wallerstein;Miriam Golden;Peter Lange

  • Competitive Corruption: Factional Conflict and Political Malfeasance in Postwar Italian Christian Democracy

    Miriam A. Golden;Eric C. C. Chang

  • The Dynamics of Trade Unionism and National Economic Performance.

    Miriam Golden

  • Electoral cycles in electricity losses in India

    Brian Min;Miriam Golden

  • Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism: Postwar Trade-Union Organization and Industrial Relations in Twelve Countries

    Miriam A. Golden;Michael Wallerstein;Peter Lange

  • Union Centralization among Advanced Industrial Societies: An Empirical Study

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  • Electoral Fraud or Violence: The Effect of Observers on Party Manipulation Strategies

    Joseph Asunka;Sarah Brierley;Miriam Golden;Eric Kramon

  • Labor divided : austerity and working-class politics in contemporary Italy

    Miriam Golden

  • Sources of Corruption in Authoritarian Regimes

    Eric Chang;Miriam A. Golden

  • The Fragmentation of the Bargaining Society Wage Setting in the Nordic Countries, 1950 to 1992

    Michael Wallerstein;Miriam Golden

  • Bargaining for change : union politics in North America and Europe

    Miriam Golden

  • Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture

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  • Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Ray Fisman;Miriam A. Golden

  • Incumbency Effects under Proportional Representation: Leaders and Backbenchers in the Postwar Italian Chamber of Deputies

    Miriam A. Golden;Lucio Picci

  • Centralization of Bargaining and Wage Inequality: A Correction of Wallerstein

    Miriam A. Golden;John B. Londregan

  • Incumbents and Criminals in the Indian National Legislature

    Toke S. Aidt;Miriam A. Golden;Devesh Tiwari

  • Heroic Defeats. The Politics of Job Loss

    Jacques Freyssinet;Miriam A. Golden

  • Proposal for a New Measure of Corruption,and Tests using Italian Data.

    Miriam A. Golden;Lucio Picci

  • Unions, Employers' Associations and Wage-Setting Institutions in Northern and Central Europe, 1950-1992

    Michael Wallerstein;Miriam A. Golden;Miriam A. Golden;Peter Lange

  • Corruption and the New Institutional Economics

    Miriam A. Golden

  • Corruption and the Management of Public Works in Italy

    Lucio Picci;M. Golden

  • Selected Works of Michael Wallerstein: POSTWAR TRADE-UNION ORGANIZATION AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN TWELVE COUNTRIES

    Miriam A. Golden;Michael Wallerstein;Peter Lange

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond Fisman
Raymond Fisman Boston University
Eric C. Chang
Eric C. Chang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Adam Przeworski
Adam Przeworski New York University
David Austen-Smith
David Austen-Smith Northwestern University
Karl Ove Moene
Karl Ove Moene University of Oslo
Jeffry Frieden
Jeffry Frieden Harvard University
Toke S. Aidt
Toke S. Aidt University of Cambridge

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