Macartan Humphreys
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Political Science
- Organizer, NYU-Columbia Seminar on Ethnic Politics
Research
Professor Humphreys received his PhD in Government from Harvard in 2003 and his MPhil in Economics from Oxford in 2000. He works on African political economy and formal political theory. His dissertation on the politics of factions developed game theoretic models of conflict and cooperation between internally divided groups. More recent research focuses on rebellions in West Africa, where he has undertaken field research in the Casamance, Mali and Sierra Leone. Ongoing research now includes experimental work on ethnic politics, econometric work on natural resource conflicts, game theoretic work on ethnic politics and large N survey work of ex-combatants in Sierra Leone. MacartanÂ's work is motivated by concerns over the linkages between politics, conflict and human development. He is a research scholar at the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute and a member of the Millennium Development goals project poverty task force where he works on conflict and development issues.
His research interests include comparative politics, Formal political theory, African Political Economy, Violent Conflict, Ethnic Politics, and Political Bargaining.
Selected Work
- "Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts: Issues and Options" in Ballentine K and H Nitzschke (Editors) Profiting from Peace: Managing the Resource Dimensions of Civil War (2005) Boulder: Lynne Reinner
- "Natural Resource, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution. " Journal of Conflict Resolution 49, 4 (August 2005):508-537.
- "The Role of Leadership in Democratic Deliberations: Results from a Field Experiment in São Tomé and PrÃncipe" Paper presented at the 101st Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2005 (with Martin Sandbu and William Masters)
- "Political Institutions and Economic Policies: Lessons from Africa." (Co-authored with Robert Bates.) British Journal of Political Science. (2005) 35:403-428
- "Ethnic Identifiability: An Experimental Approach" 2005. Earlier version presented at the 100th Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2004. (with James Habyarimana, Daniel Posner and Jeremy Weinstein)
- "To Bargain or to Brawl? Political Decision-making in Institutionally Weak Environments." for the Harvard Research Workshop on Positive Political Economy (February 2001)
- "Salience: the Electoral Importance of the Politics of Emphasis." Presented at the Oxford University Annual Political Sociology Workshop April 2000. Coauthored with John Garry.
- "Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Core Existence in Two Group Voting Games." September 2001. Earlier versions presented at the Oxford Seminar in Advanced Political Theory, April 1999 and the World Bank DECRG policy research seminar, August 1999.
See Also
- Research grants undertaken by Macartan Humphreys
