Mike Findley
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Books


Under Contract


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Findley, Michael G. External Validity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 

2014


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Findley, Michael G., Daniel L. Nielson, and J. C. Sharman. 2014. Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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    -Media summary: Here
    -Book review in Perspectives on Politics: Here  

Journal Special Issues

2016

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Research Transparency in the Social Sciences. Eds. Michael G. Findley, Nathan M. Jensen, Edmund J. Malesky, and Thomas B. Pepinsky. 2016. Comparative Political Studies Special Issue. [pdf]

2011


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Expanding Our Understanding of Aid with a New Generation in Development Finance Information. Eds. Darren G. Hawkins, Michael G. Findley, and Timmons J. Roberts. 2011. World Development Special Issue, 2011. [pdf]

Articles / Law Reviews


2025 / Forthcoming

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Callen, Michael, Miguel Fajardo-Steinhauser, Michael G. Findley, & Tarek Ghani. Forthcoming. "Can Digital Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises?" Management Science. [arxiv] [.pdf TBA]
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Verrilli, Allison, Marcel Roman, Hannah Walker, Derek Epp, Amy Liu, and Michael G. Findley. Forthcoming. "Policing Socio-Geographic Boundaries and Inequality." Perspectives on Politics. [.pdf TBA]

2024

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Findley, Michael G., Faten Ghosn, and Sara Lowe. 2024. "Vulnerability in Research Ethics: A Call for Assessing Vulnerability and Implementing Protections." Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences. [.pdf]
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Findley, Michael G., Daniel L. Nielson, and Jason Sharman. 2024. "Banking Bad: A Global Field Experiment on Risk, Reward, and Regulation." American Journal of Political Science. [.pdf] 
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Aronson, Jacob, Michael G. Findley, Kyosuke Kikuta, and James Igoe Walsh. 2024. "The Tyranny of Supply: Natural Resources and Rebel Territorial Control in Civil Conflicts." International Studies Quarterly. [.pdf] 

2023

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Findley, Michael G., Daniel Strandow, Joseph K. Young, and Olgahan Cat. 2023. "Aiding War: Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict." International Studies Quarterly. [.pdf] 
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Liu, Amy H., Michael G. Findley, David L. Leal, Raúl L. Madrid, Eric L. McDaniel, God’swill Osa, Tasha S. Philpot, Brooke N. Shannon, Zeynep Somer-Topcu, Christopher Wlezien. 2023. Normalizing Diversity in Merit Review Forms. PS: Political Science and Politics. [.pdf] 

2022

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Denly, Michael, Michael G. Findley, Joelean Hall, Andrew Stravers, and James Igoe Walsh. 2022. ​"Do Natural Resources Really Cause Civil Conflict? Evidence from the New Global Resources Dataset." Journal of Conflict Resolution. [.pdf]

2021

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Findley, Michael G., Kyosuke Kikuta, and Michael Denly. 2021. "External Validity." Annual Review of Political Science 24(1): 365-393. [.pdf]

2020

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Jensen, Nathan, Michael G. Findley, and Daniel L. Nielson. 2020. "Electoral Institutions and Electoral Cycles in Investment Incentives: A Field Experiment on Over 3,000 U.S. Municipalities." American Journal of Political Science 64(4): 807-822. [.pdf] 
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Marineau, Josiah, and Michael G. Findley. 2020. "The Swarm Principle: A Sub-national Analysis of Donor Coordination in Sub-Saharan Africa." Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 9(1): 9. [.pdf]  
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Marineau, Josiah, Henry Pascoe, Alex Braithwaite, Michael G. Findley, and Joseph K. Young. 2020. "The Local Geography of Transnational Terrorism." Conflict Management and Peace Science 37(3): 350-381. [.pdf] 

2019

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Sexton, Renard, Rachel Wellhausen, and Michael G. Findley. 2019. "How Government Reactions to Violence Worsen Social Welfare: Evidence from Peru." American Journal of Political Science 63(2): 353-367. [.pdf] 

2018

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Findley, Michael G. 2018. "Does Foreign Aid Build Peace?" Annual Review of Political Science 21(1): 359-384. [.pdf] 
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Harris, Adam S., Michael G. Findley, Daniel L. Nielson, and Kennard L. Noyes. 2018. "The Economic Roots of Anti-Immigrant Prejudice in the Global South: Evidence from South Africa." Political Research Quarterly 71(1): 228-241. [.pdf] 
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White, Philip, Candace Berrett, Shannon Neeley Tass, and Michael G. Findley. 2018. "A Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Model for Analyzing Efficiency of Foreign Aid Allocation." The American Statistician 73(4): 385-399. [.pdf] 

2017

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Findley, Michael G., Adam S. Harris, Helen V. Milner, and Daniel L. Nielson. 2017. "Who Controls Foreign Aid? Elite versus Public Perceptions of Donor Influence in Aid-Dependent Uganda." International Organization 71(4): 633-663. [.pdf]
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Findley, Michael G., Helen V. Milner, and Daniel L. Nielson. 2017. "The Choice among Aid Donors: The Effects of Multilateral vs. Bilateral Aid on Recipient Behavioral Support." Review of International Organizations 12(2): 307-334. [.pdf]
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Campbell, Susanna P., Michael G. Findley, and Kyosuke Kikuta. 2017. "An Ontology of Peace: Landscapes of Conflict and Cooperation." International Studies Review 19(1): 92-113. [.pdf]
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Findley, Michael G., Brock Laney, Daniel L. Nielson, and J.C. Sharman. 2017. "External Validity in Parallel Global Field and Survey Experiments on Anonymous Incorporation." Journal of Politics 79(3): 856-872. [pdf]
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Allred, Brent B., Michael G. Findley, Daniel L. Nielson, J.C. Sharman. 2017. "Anonymous Shell Companies: A Global Audit Study and Field Experiment in 176 Countries." Journal of International Business Studies 48(5): 596-619. [.pdf]

2016

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Findley, Michael G., Nathan M. Jensen, Edmund J. Malesky, and Thomas B. Pepinsky. 2016. "Can Results Free Review Reduce Publication Bias? The Results and Implications of a Pilot Study." Comparative Political Studies 49(3): 1667-1703. [pdf]
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Tao, Ran, Daniel Strandow, Michael G. Findley, Jean-Claude Thill. 2016. "A Hybrid Approach to Modeling Territorial Control in Violent Armed Conflicts." Transactions in GIS 20(3): 413-425. [pdf]
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Milner, Helen V., Daniel L. Nielson, and Michael G. Findley. 2016. "Citizen Preferences and Public Goods: Comparing Preferences for Foreign Aid and Government Programs in Uganda." Review of International Organizations 11(2): 219-245. [pdf]
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 Rudloff, Peter J., and Michael G. Findley. 2016. "The Downstream Effects of Combatant Fragmentation on Civil War Recurrence." Journal of Peace Research 53(1): 19-32. [pdf]
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Asal, Victor, Michael G. Findley, James A. Piazza, and James Igoe Walsh. 2016. "Political Exclusion, Oil, and Ethnic Armed Conflict." Journal of Conflict Resolution 60(8): 1343-1367. [pdf]
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 Chatterji, Aaron, Michael G. Findley, Nathan M. Jensen, Stephan Meier, Daniel L. Nielson. 2016. "Field Experiments in Strategy Research." Strategic Management Journal 37(1): 116-132. [pdf]

2015

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Findley, Michael G., and Joseph K. Young. 2015. "Terrorism, Spoiling, and the Resolution of Civil Wars." Journal of Politics 77(4): 1115-1128. [pdf]
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Findley, Michael G., Daniel L. Nielson, and J.C. Sharman. 2015. "Causes of Non-Compliance with International Law: A Field Experiment on Anonymous Incorporation." American Journal of Political Science 59(1): 146-161. [pdf]
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Findley, Michael G., and Josiah F. Marineau. 2015. "Lootable Resources and Third-Party Intervention into Civil Wars." Conflict Management and Peace Science 32(5): 465--486. [pdf]
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 Findley, Michael G., Daniel Nielson, and J.C. Sharman. "Orchestrating the Fight Against Anonymous Incorporation: A Field Experiment." 2015. In Kenneth Abbott, Phillip Genschel, Duncan Snidal and Bernhard Zangl (Eds.) International Organizations as Orchestrators. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (Peer-Reviewed) [pdf]

2014


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Baradaran, Shima, Michael G. Findley, Daniel L. Nielson, and J. C. Sharman. 2014. "Funding Terror."University of Pennsylvania Law Review 162(3): 477-536.  [pdf]
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Harris, Adam S., and Michael G. Findley. 2014. "Is Ethnicity Identifiable? Lessons From An Experiment in South Africa." Journal of Conflict Resolution 58(1): 4-33.  [pdf]

2013


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Findley, Michael G. 2013. "Bargaining and the Interdependent Stages of Civil War Resolution." Journal of Conflict Resolution 57(5): 905-932.  [pdf]
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Baradaran, Shima, Michael G. Findley, Daniel L. Nielson, and J. C. Sharman. 2013. "Does International Law Matter?" Minnesota Law Review 97(3): 743-837.  [pdf]
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Milton, Daniel L., Megan M. Spencer, and Michael G. Findley. 2013. "Radicalism of the Hopeless: Refugee Flows and Transnational Terrorism." International Interactions 39(5): 621-645.  [pdf]
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Findley, Michael G., Daniel L. Nielson, and J. C. Sharman. 2013. "Using Field Experiments in International Relations: A Randomized Study of Anonymous Incorporation." International Organization 67(4): 657-693.  [pdf]

2012


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Findley, Michael G., and Peter J. Rudloff. 2012. "Combatant Fragmentation and the Dynamics of Civil War." British Journal of Political Science 42(4): 879-901. [pdf]
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Findley, Michael G., James Piazza, and Joseph K. Young. 2012. "Games Rivals Play: Terrorism in International Rivalries." Journal of Politics 74(1): 235-248. [pdf]
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Findley, Michael G., and Joseph K. Young. 2012. "More Combatant Groups, More Terror? Empirical Tests of an Outbidding Logic." Terrorism and Political Violence 24(5): 706-721. [pdf]
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Findley, Michael G., and Joseph K. Young. 2012. "Terrorism and Civil War: A Spatial and Temporal Approach to a Conceptual Problem." Perspectives on Politics. 10(2): 285-305. [pdf]
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Findley, Michael G., and Joseph K. Young. 2012. "Using Geography to Understand Terrorist Actors and Actions." International Studies Review 14(3): 475-497. [pdf]

2011


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Young, Joseph K., and Michael G. Findley. 2011. "Can Peace Be Purchased? A Sectoral-Level Analysis of Aid." Public Choice 149(3-4): 365-381. [pdf]
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Nielsen, Richard A., Michael G. Findley, Zachary S. Davis, Tara Candland, and Daniel L. Nielson. 2011. "Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict." American Journal of Political Science. 55(2): 219-232. [pdf]
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Rider, Toby J., Michael G. Findley, and Paul F. Diehl. 2011. "Just Part of the Game? Arms Races, Rivalry, and War." Journal of Peace Research 48(1): 85-100. [pdf]
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Findley, Michael G., Josh Powell, Daniel Strandow, and Jeff Tanner. 2011. "The Localized Geography of Foreign Aid: A New Dataset and Application to Violent Armed Conflict." World Development 39(11): 1995-2009. [pdf]
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Tierney, Michael J., Daniel L. Nielson, Darren G. Hawkins, Timmons J. Roberts, Michael G. Findley, Ryan M. Powers, Bradley Parks, Sven E. Wilson, and Robert L. Hicks. 2011. "More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData." World Development 39(11): 1891-1906. [pdf]
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Young, Joseph K., and Michael G. Findley. 2011. "Promise and Pitfalls of Terrorism Research."International Studies Review 13(3): 411-431. [pdf]
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Findley, Michael G., and Joseph K. Young. 2011. "Terrorism, Democracy, and Credible Commitments."International Studies Quarterly 55(2): 357-378. [pdf]

2009


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Bhavnani, Ravi, Michael G. Findley, and James H. Kuklinski. 2009. "Rumor Dynamics in Ethnic Violence." The Journal of Politics 71(3): 876-892. [pdf]

2008


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Findley, Michael G. 2008. "Agents and conflict: Adaptation and the dynamics of war." Complexity 14(1): 22-35. [pdf]

2007


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Findley, Michael G., and Scott Edwards. 2007. "Accounting for the Unaccounted: Weak-Actor Social Structure in Asymmetric Wars." International Studies Quarterly 51 (3): 583-606. [pdf]

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Findley, Michael G., and Joseph K. Young. 2007. "Fighting Fire with Fire? How (Not) to Neutralize an Insurgency." Civil Wars 9(4): 378-401. [pdf]

2006


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Findley, Michael G., and Tze Kwang Teo. 2006. "Rethinking Third-Party Interventions into Civil Wars: An Actor-Centric Approach." Journal of Politics 68(4): 828-837. [pdf]
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