Miriam A. Golden is a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University, where she is actively involved in the newly-established Democracy Action Lab. She is also a Research Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Between 2019 and 2024, Golden held the Peter Mair Chair of Comparative Politics in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute. Prior to her 2019 move to the EUI, she taught at UCLA.
Golden is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Capacity Gaps: Reelection and Governance Around the World that emerged out of data showing that legislator reelection increases with economic development. An initial publication from this project, co-authored with Eugenia Nazrullaeva, appeared as The Puzzle of Clientelism in 2023 (Cambridge University Press).
Golden's work has been honored with the Jewell-Loewenberg Prize, the Lawrence Longley Award, the Gregory A. Leubbert Book Award (runner-up), a Choice Award, and the Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best dissertation in comparative politics. Most recently, she is a recipient of the 2025 Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award for the Global Legislator Database.
Affiliations & Contact
- Visiting Scholar, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University
- Research Professor, University of California at Los Angeles
- Email: golden@ucla.edu or magolden@stanford.edu