Mike Findley
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Michael Findley is Professor of Government in the Department of Government and the LBJ School of Public Affairs (courtesy) at the University of Texas at Austin. He is co-director of Innovations for Peace and Development (IPD) and a Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar, and is a Provost's Teaching Fellow. He is also a member of the Evidence in Governance and Politics Network and the AidData Research Consortium. 

Findley conducts research on the globalization of illicit financial flows, political violence, and international development, using a variety of methods including field experiments, statistical computational models, geospatial analysis, and extensive focus groups and interviews. He has published in leading political science outlets including Cambridge University Press, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Annual Review of Political Science, as well as leading journals in other disciplines including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Penn Law Review, and Complexity. He currently conducts fieldwork in Colombia, Kenya, DRC, Sudan, South Sudan, South Africa, and Uganda. (For details, see Publications and Projects pages.)

Findley's policy work includes collaborations with the World Bank, USAID, African Development Bank, UN FACTI, UNICEF, UN Peacebuilding Fund, UN Development Program, International Aid Transparency Initiative, and many aid recipient country governments (For details on policy work, see here).

Other Profiles: Google Scholar page; ResearchGate page; LinkedIn profile


I’m also a co-founder of Evaluasi, a start-up focused on improving impact evaluation of corporate social responsibility efforts.

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​My book Global Shell Games with Dan Nielson and Jason Sharman. Feel free to have a look at the book website at the link below or the teaser video to the right. 


Recent Work (See all publications here): 
  • "External Validity." Forthcoming at Annual Review of Political Science. 
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  • External Validity in the Social Sciences. Book under contract at Cambridge University Press.

  • "Electoral Institutions andElectoral Cycles in Investment Incentives: A Field Experiment on Over 3,000 U.S. Municipalities." American Journal of Political Science
News and Updates:
  • Appointed to Provost's Teaching Fellows (2020-)
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  • Innovations for Peace and Development (IPD) Annual Report: see here

  • Comparative Political Studies Special Issue on Research Transparency: see here
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  • Promoted to Professor of Government (Sept 2017)
Department of Government
The University of Texas at Austin
3.102 Batts, Austin, TX, 78712 (email)
@mgfindley