Category: Research
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GDL Fall Semester Launch
We kicked off the Fall semester with Global Diversity Lab Faculty Noah Nathan, who presented his working paper The Seeds of State Capture: Merit and Patrimonialism in the Colonial Bureaucracy. He was joined by one of his co-authors, Tingxuan (Diana) Zhu, who is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at MIT.
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The value of dignity appeals: evidence from a social media experiment
GDL Director Evan Lieberman and graduate alum Paige Bollen, together with coauthors Will Kymlicka and Blair Read, recently published an article in Political Science Research and Methods titled “The value of dignity appeals: evidence from a social media experiment.” They use a Facebook ad experiment to estimate the effects of dignity appeals on users’ likelihood…
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How information
about historic
carbon emissions
affects support
for climate aidGlobal Diversity Lab affiliates Volha Charnysh, Jared Kalow, Evan Lieberman, and Erin Walk’s new article in Climatic Change looks at how information about historic carbon emissions affects support for climate aid. They use a survey experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative communications strategies associated with historic carbon emissions in increasing support for climate aid.…
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Celebrating
Professor
Volha Charnysh’s
book publicationGDL faculty and graduate affiliates gathered for our end-of-semester lunch to celebrate the publication of GDL faculty affiliate Volha Charnysh’s new book Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe (2024, Cambridge University Press, Studies in Comparative Politics Series).
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Global Solidarity
Report 2024Global Diversity Lab Director Evan Lieberman was a contributor to the Global Solidarity Report 2024, which was released last month. The findings of the report issue a stark warning as power shifts continue and divisions between countries seemingly widen. This year, the world has scored just 36 out of a possible 100 on the Global Solidarity…
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Global Solidarity
Report 2023Global Diversity Lab Director Evan Lieberman was a contributor to the Global Solidarity Report 2023, which was released today. For the first time ever, this report presents a tool designed to measure global solidarity and sets out a pathway of how to strengthen it. Championed by world leaders, advocates and scholars, this report highlights three…
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Government’s
invisible hand in
developing
countriesMIT political scientist and Global Diversity Lab Affiliate, Noah Nathan’s new book, “The Scarce State,” looks at the way seemingly minimal state oversight in rural Ghana has actually had profound effects on society. In the book, Nathan studies three types of state actions in rural Ghana: the use of traditional chiefs as local government surrogates,…
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Until We Have Won
Our Liberty: South
Africa After
ApartheidGDL director Evan Lieberman’s new book Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa After Apartheid (Princeton UP, 2022) shines new light on the signal achievements of one of the contemporary era’s most closely watched transitions away from minority rule. South Africa’s democratic development has been messy, fiercely contested, and sometimes violent. But as Evan…
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Democracy
in South
AfricaThe Journal of Democracy features work by GDL Director Evan Lieberman and GDL affiliate Rorisang Lekalake in their most recent issue. The authors point to the impressive resilience of South African democracy, particularly in the face of a global democratic recession.
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MIT CGC Invite
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been invited to submit a White Paper for the MIT Climate Grand Challenges! We’re excited to get started on this important work. More information available here.