Guy Grossman
Guy is an Assistant Professor at the political science department at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in comparative politics, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. In his work, he applies a variety of methods, including randomized control trials (RCTs), social network analysis and behavioral experiments to study political behavior and political economy of development. His most recent work explores the relationship between governance institutions and the provision of public goods and the extent to which information technology innovations can increase political accountability in low-income countries. Before coming to Penn, Guy was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University and a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Development Strategies at Columbia University.
Research Interests:
- Comparative politics
- Political economy of development
- African politics
- Governance institutions and public goods provision; IT and political accountability
- Quantitative methods: Causal inference; field and lab-in-the-field experiments
- Political behavior (cooperation, generosity)
Selected Publications:
- 2012. Grossman, G. and D. Baldassarri. “The Impact of Elections on Cooperation: Evidence from a “Lab-in-the-Field” Experiment in Uganda,” American Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).
- 2011. Baldassarri, D. and G. Grossman. “Centralized Sanctioning and Legitimate Authority Promote Cooperation in Humans”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(27): 11023–11027
- 2011. Grossman, G. “Lab-in-the-field Experiments”, Newsletter of the APSA Experimental Section, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Nov. 2011)
- 2006. Grossman, G. and R. Kaplan. “Courage to Refuse”, Peace Review, 18(2): 189 – 197
Other Affiliations:
- Center of the Study of Development Strategies (http://cu-csds.org/)
- Experiments in Governments and Politics (http://e-gap.org/)
- African Politics Conference Group (http://www.africanpoliticsgroup.org/)
- American Political Science Association (http://www.apsanet.org/)
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