Miriam A. Golden

The Puzzle of Clientelism: Political Discretion and Elections Around the World

Elements in Political Economy, Cambridge University Press, 2023. With Eugenia Nazrullaeva.

Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know

Oxford University Press, 2017. 316 pages. With Raymond Fisman.

Discussed in the New York Times.

Selected Works of Michael Wallerstein: The Political Economy of Inequality, Unions, and Social Democracy

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2008. Edited by David Austen-Smith, Jeffry A. Frieden, Miriam A. Golden, Karl Ove Moene, and Adam Przeworski.

Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss

Cambridge University Press, 1997. 216 pages.

Why do unions strike when the workers they represent are threatened with job loss in some settings but not others? A comparative investigation using game theory, illustrated in Japan, Italy, Britain, and the United States between 1950 and 1985.

Runner-up, Leubbert Award (APSA Comparative Politics), 1997.

Italian translation.

Bargaining for Change: Union Politics in North America and Europe

Cornell University Press, 1992. 368 pages. Edited by Miriam Golden and Jonas Pontusson.

Labor Divided: Austerity and Working-Class Politics in Contemporary Italy

Cornell University Press, 1988. 320 pages.

1989–90 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Books. Revised from a dissertation receiving the APSA Gabriel A. Almond Award, 1983.