Macartan N. Humphreys (Columbia University, New York, New York)

Submitted: Mon, February 22, 2010


Macartan N. Humphreys
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
701 International Affairs
420 West 118th Street, MC 3320
New York, New York  10027  USA

phone:  212-854-7431  
fax:	212-854-5670  
e-mail: mh2245@columbia.edu

Web: http://www.columbia.edu/~mh2245/

	
Macartan Humphreys (Ph.D. (Government) Harvard 2003, MPhil (Economics) 
Oxford, 2000) works on the political economy of development and formal 
political theory.  Ongoing research focuses on civil wars, post conflict 
development, ethnic politics, natural resource management, political 
authority and leadership and democratic development. He uses a variety of 
methods including survey work, lab experiementation, field 
experimentation, econometric analysis, game theoretic analysis and 
classical qualitative methods. He has conducted field research in Chad, 
Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Liberia, Mali, São Tomé e 
Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Uganda and elsewhere. A new series 
of projects underway use field experiments to examine democratic decision 
making in post conflict and developing areas.

He is a research scholar at the Center for Globalization and Sustainable 
Development at the Earth Institute.

Research Interests:  Political economy of development, African politics, 
ethnic politics, democratic developments, methodology


Recent publications:

2009.  With J. M. Weinstein. 
"Field experiments and the political economy of development," Annual review of
political science. 12 (2009): 367-78. 

2008. "Existence of a multicameral core," Social choice and welfare. 31, 3
(October 2008): 503-20.

2008.  "Coalitions," Annual review of political science. 11 (2008): 351-86.

2008.  With J. Habyarimana et al. 
"Is ethnic conflict inevitable?: parting ways over nationalism and 
separatism," Foreign affairs. 87, 4 (2008): 138-50.

2008.  With J. M. Weinstein. 
"Who fights?: the determinants of participation in civil war," American 
journal of political science. 52, 2 (April 2008): 436-55.