Jessica Gottlieb

I am Associate Professor at the University of Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs and hold a PhD in Political Science and MA in Economics from Stanford University.  I am co-Director of the Democratic Erosion Consortium and a board member of the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) network (2019 - ).  My first research stream is on the political economy of development, investigating constraints to government accountability and state capacity in new democracies, largely in sub-Saharan Africa where I conduct field experiments, behavioral games, and surveys. My second research stream is on affective polarization and misinformation in the US and abroad. This work has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Journal of Politics, and Science Advances, among others. I am grateful for past financial support from the NSF, IGC, CDDRL, EGAP, CEGA, ConDev, and Stanford.  You can listen to me expound upon some of my current and former research on this podcast.