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Professor of Government, Department of Government at the LBJ School of Public Affairs
University of Texas at Austin
Michael Findley is a Professor of Government in the Department of Government at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
He is co-director of Innovations for Peace and Development and Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar as well as a member of the Evidence in Governance and Politics Network and the AidData Research Consortium.
Findley conducts research on civil wars, terrorism, and international development and uses a variety of methods including field experiments, statistical and computational models, geospatial analysis, and some 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, Penn Law Review, and Complexity.
He currently conducts fieldwork in Colombia, Kenya, DRC, Sudan, South Sudan, South Africa, and Uganda. Findley’s policy work includes collaborations with the World Bank, USAID, African Development Bank, UNICEF, UN Peacebuilding Fund, UN Development Program, International Aid Transparency Initiative, and many aid recipient country governments.
Working Papers MAY 3, 2016
By: Nathan M. Jensen, Michael G. Findley, Daniel L. Nielson
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