Wantchekon, Leonard |
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Politics, Economics Ph.D. 1995 Northwestern; M.A. 1992 British Columbia and Laval. Office Address: NYU Department of Politics, 19 W. 4th Street New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 998-8533 Fax: (212) 995-4184 Email: |
Areas of Research/Interest: Political economy, development, applied game theory and comparative politics.
"Clientelism and Vote Buying: Lessons from Field Experiments in West Africa" (with Pedro C. Vicente). Oxford Review of Economic Policy (forthcoming)
"The Paradox of 'Warlord' Democracy: A Theoretical Investigation", American Political Science Review, (Vol. 98, No1, 2004).
"Resource Wealth and Political Regimes in Africa" (with Nathan Jensen), Comparative Political Studies, (Vol. 37, No. 7, 816-841, 2004).
"Clientelism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin", World Politics, Forthcoming. (See a New York Times article on the project)
"A Theory of Post-Civil War Democratization" (with Zvika Neeman). Journal of Theoretical Politics (October 2002).
"Electoral Competition under the Threat of Political Unrest" (with Matthew Ellman). Quarterly Journal of Economics (May 2000): 499-531.
"Strategic Voting in Conditions of Political Instability: the 1994 Elections in El Salvador." Comparative Political Studies (October 1999). 32:7, 811-35.
"The 'Game' of Torture" (with Andrew Healy). Journal of Conflict Resolution (October 1999) 43:5, 596-609.
Working Papers
"Randomized Evaluations of Institutions: Theory with Applications to Voting and Deliberation Experiments" (with Yves F. Atchade)
"The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa" (with Nathan Nunn) (See a Los Angeles Times article on the project)
"Can Informed Public Deliberation Overcome Clientelism?: Experimental Evidence from Benin" (updated)
"Underground Insurgency and Democratic Revolution" (with Antonio Cabrales and Antoni Calvo-Armengo)
"Does Ethnic Solidarity Facilitate Electoral Support for Nation - Building Policies? Evidence from A Political Experiment" (with Yves F. Atchade)
"Noncompliance Bias and Correction Based on Covariates in Randomized Experiments" (with Yves Atchade)
"Information, Social Networks and the Demand for Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from Benin" (with Christel Vermeersch)
Other Publications and Reviews
Forthcoming in the Annals of the American Academy of Political Social Science.Theory, External Validity and Experimental Inference: Some Conjectures (with Fernando Martel Garcia)
Help Me Help You: Conducting Field Experiments with Political Elites (with Peter John Loewen and Daniel Rubenson)
