Miriam A. Golden

Miriam A. Golden is a political scientist and the Peter Mair Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute.

Her research focuses on the selection, responsiveness, and accountability of politicians in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.

In 1982, she became a lecturer in government at Cornell University before working as an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico from 1983 to 1984.

Golden studied political science at the University of California at Berkeley and the London School of Economics and Political Science before, receiving her Ph.D. in government from Cornell University in 1983.

She was also an assistant professor in government at Wesleyan University from 1984 to 1989 before working as an assistant professor with the University of California at Los Angeles in 1989 becoming associate professor in 1993, Professor in 1994, and Professor Emerita in 2019.

She is also an Associate Member of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.

Golden was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2014 and was a Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University from 2018 to 2019.

She is also a member of the international network Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) and a Research Fellow in Political Economy at the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP)

Her early research focused on labour politics in Western Europe, but has since expanded to political corruption, violence, criminality and electoral fraud.

It has been supported by organisations such as National Science Foundation, the U.K.’s Department for International Development (DfID), the International Growth Center, and the governments of Canada and Quebec.