Prof. Moehler published in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Friday, February 26, 2010

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Devra C. Moehler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, has published the article “Democracy, Governance, and Randomized Development Assistance,” in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (628: 30 – 46, March 2010).

Abstract

Can field experiments be productively employed to study the impact of development assistance on democracy and governance (DG) outcomes? A small but growing number of practitioners and scholars, often working in partnership, are inventing a new research domain at the intersection of evaluation and political science. The article reviews recent and ongoing DG field experiments, and it offers lessons about the prospects and obstacles to the future development of a useful body of experimental evidence on the political economy of development.