About the authors
Graeme Blair is an associate professor of political science at UCLA. Graeme uses experiments, field research, and statistics to study how to reduce violence and make social science more credible, ethical, and useful. He works primarily in Nigeria, often in partnership with government, civil society, or international organizations. His work is published in journals including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Political Analysis. His second book, Crime, insecurity, and community policing: Experiments on building trust, was published in Cambridge University Press Studies in Comparative Politics series.
Alexander Coppock is an associate professor (on term) of political science at Yale University and a resident fellow of the Institution for Social Policy Studies and Center for the Study of American Politics. He is the author of Persuasion in Parallel (University of Chicago Press) and his current research focuses on the meta-analysis of social scientific experiments. His published work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Science Advances, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Macartan Humphreys is a professor of political science at Columbia University and director of the Institutions and Political Inequality group at the WZB Berlin. He works on the political economy of development. Ongoing research focuses on post-conflict development, ethnic politics, political authority and leadership, and democratic development with a current focus on the use of field experiments to study democratic decision-making in post-conflict and developing areas. Macartan has worked in Chad, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Liberia, Mali, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Uganda, and elsewhere. Recent work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Development Economics, Science Advances, and elsewhere. He has written or coauthored books on ethnic politics, natural resource management, and game theory and politics. Humphreys is a former Trudeau fellow and scholar of the Harvard Academy.