MIT-China Faculty Director Yasheng Huang 黄亚生 and MIT Global Diversity Lab Faculty Associate Noah Nathan were featured in Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2023! foreignaffairs.com/lists/best-boo…

The most recent addition of précis featured an interview with MITPoliticalScience Associate Prof Mai Hassan on the crisis in Sudan, her work on authoritarian regimes in Africa, and the importance of international education at MIT. cis.mit.edu/publications/m…

Grateful to my fantastic hosts African Climate & Development Initiative for the opportunity yesterday to share research (with Volha Charnysh, Jared Kalow, Erin Walk) on the effects of messages on historic carbon emissions on support for climate aid. Britta Gina Ziervogel MIT Center for International Studies MIT Global Diversity Lab

In an article published in American Political Science Review, MIT-Africa faculty director Mai Hassan writes about how dissidents mobilizing against a repressive regime benefit from using public information for tactical coordination but also alerts the regime of their plans. ow.ly/HMcE50QRggU

Mai Hassan, Horacio Larreguy, & Stuart Russell examine biases present in public sector hiring & their explanations. Using Kenyan payroll data, they find evidence of both patronage & bureaucratic favoritism, with variation in bias based on job. #APSRFirstView cambridge.org/core/journals/…

GDL was delighted to host Feyaad Allie earlier this week for an engaging presentation and discussion of his paper "The Representation Trap: How and Why Muslims Struggle to Maintain Power in India." MIT Center for International Studies MITPoliticalScience

Just arrived in Kumasi, Ghana and really looking forward to meeting faculty and students to talk about politics and climate change at KNUST tomorrow. MIT Center for International Studies MIT Global Diversity Lab MIT-AFRICA MITPoliticalScience

Mai Hassan is excited to host BWGAPE on 5/3! This coming Fri. 3/29, is the last day to submit your working paper or research design for Boston Area Working Group on African Political Economy. docs.google.com/forms/d/1qymPe… Noah Nathan Evan Lieberman MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Global Diversity Lab MIT Center for International Studies

GDL was delighted to host Professor Solé Prillaman today for a presentation and discussion of her recently published book "The Patriarchal Political Order: the making and unraveling of the gendered participation gap in India"! MITPoliticalScience MIT Center for International Studies Evan Lieberman Noah Nathan

Excited to see this out and to have more mainstream political science journals focusing on the existential challenge of our time: #climatechange MIT Center for International Studies EGAP

I look forward to moderating this important discussion among four terrific analysts of South African politics next week. Please join us!

Join GDL Director Evan Lieberman and alum Rorisang Lekalake for this MIT Center for International Studies webinar on South Africa elections next week!

Sarah Lockwood and I were about to run a survey of local politicians and debated whether to incentivize participation. Lacking guidance on best practice, we decided to randomize a few options and learn from the results. Our findings are now in print (doi.org/10.1177/205316…).

Excited to learn that The Scarce State is co-winner of the 2024 William Riker Award for best book in Political Economy. Many thanks to the APSA Political Economy section and committee for the support! More info here: cambridge.org/core/books/sca… Cambridge University Press - Politics APSA Political Economy Section 1/2

Congratulations to our second cohort of Pathways to Political Science interns!

'Uprooted' by Volha Charnysh presents a fresh perspective on the developmental consequences of mass displacement. Drawing on post-WWII Poland & West Germany, she shows how cultural diversity increases entrepreneurship, education, and income. #Uprooted

This summer, MIT Global Diversity Lab hosted its second cohort of Pathways to Political Science Summer Research interns. Pathways@GDL is sponsored in partnership with the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) and funded by MITPoliticalScience, CIS, and MIT-AFRICA. ow.ly/TzjL50SVXfm

Professor Noah L. Nathan's book The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland is co-winner of the 2024 American Political Science Association William Riker Award for Best Book in Political Economy! polisci.mit.edu/news/2024/prof…… Noah Nathan MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Center for International Studies

Delighted to have contributed to the 2024 Global Solidarity Report, out today in time for the #UNGA. We need to get creative in terms how we achieve this! MIT Center for International Studies MIT Global Diversity Lab