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Michael G. Findley

Researcher at University of Texas at Austin

Publications -  83
Citations -  3299

Michael G. Findley is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Terrorism & Political violence. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 81 publications receiving 2888 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael G. Findley include University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign & Brigham Young University.

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More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a new dataset of foreign assistance, AidData, that covers more bilateral and multilateral donors and more types of aid than existing datasets while also improving project-level information about the purposes and activities funded by aid.
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Terrorism and Civil War: A Spatial and Temporal Approach to a Conceptual Problem

TL;DR: This paper used geo-referenced terrorism event data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) to show where and when terrorism happens and whether it occurs inside or outside of civil war zones.
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Terrorism and Civil War: A Spatial and Temporal Approach to a Conceptual Problem

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent to which terrorism and civil war overlap and then unpack various temporal and spatial patterns, showing that a substantial amount of terrorism occurs prior to civil wars in Latin America but yet follows civil war in other regions of the world.
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Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict

TL;DR: This paper found that negative aid shocks significantly increase the probability of armed conflict onset, and they used matching methods to account for the possibility that aid donors anticipate conflict, which is a common assumption in many studies.
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Promise and Pitfalls of Terrorism Research

TL;DR: The authors used a database of recent articles published in prominent political science journals to identify several problems that still plague the study of political terrorism including definitional problems, not distinguishing among different types of terrorism, and using the wrong unit of analysis when designing research.