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evan s. lieberman associate professor, department of
politics princeton university |
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239 corwin hall princeton, nj 08544 tel: 609-258-6833 fax:
609-258-1110 |
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I am an associate professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where I conduct
research and teach in the field of comparative politics. I am the faculty
director of the Princeton AIDS Initiative, and a faculty
associate at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional
Studies, the Princeton Center for Globalization and Governance, the Center for Health & Wellbeing,
and the Program in African Studies. My research is mainly concerned with two sets of questions, exploring the
relationship between institutions, patterns of political competition and
development: First, what accounts for distinctive modes of governance in low- and
middle-income countries? Why, for example, have different national
governments responded to the AIDS pandemic in different ways? Why do some
sets of actors, and not others, mobilize to prevent the spread of infectious
diseases? And why have governments taxed citizens in
different ways and with varied levels of success across countries and
over-time? Second, what are the causes and consequences of different manifestations
of identity politics? Why, for example, does “race” matter in some societies
but not in others? Why do some states systematically categorize their
citizens according to ethnic identity? And how does this influence the
governance outcomes mentioned above? In addition, I work on developing methods and strategies for comparative
and historical research, including approaches that integrate statistical and
more qualitative analyses. I have conducted extensive research on South Africa and Brazil, and I
have research and teaching interests concerned with other parts of Africa,
Latin America, and Asia. |
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