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BRIAN
MIN Associate Professor, Department of
Political Science University of Michigan Research Associate Professor, Center for
Political Studies Faculty Affiliate, Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) 7634 Haven Hall |
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Brian Min studies the political economy of development with an emphasis on distributive politics, public goods provision, and energy politics.
He is the author of Power and the Vote: Elections and Electricity in the Developing World. His research uses high resolution satellite imagery to study the politics of rural electrification across the developing world. He has collaborated closely with the World Bank to develop new methods using remote sensing and statistical algorithms to plan and monitor electrification projects in settings including India, Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Kenya, Pakistan, and Vietnam. His current research focuses on the political targeting of power outages using high frequency satellite data.
His earlier research
on ethnic politics and conflict introduced a major
new dataset (with Lars-Erik Cederman and Andreas Wimmer) on Ethnic Power Relations
(EPR) in all countries of the world since 1946. He is the recipient of the 2011 Gabriel Almond Award from the American Political Science Association for best dissertation in comparative politics. His research has been funded by the World Bank, United Nations Development Programme, International Growth Centre, and the National Science Foundation. BOOK |
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Power and the Vote: Elections and Electricity in the Developing World. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2015. Book Reviews:
Herbert Kitschelt, Camb. Rev. Intl. Aff. 2016. Toke Aidt, Journal of Politics. 2016. |
ARTICLES “Women Legislators and Economic Performance” (with Sonia Bhalotra, Thushyanthan Baskaran, Yogesh Uppal). “Local Partisan Biases in Allocations of Foreign Aid: A Study of Agricultural Assistance in India” (with Eugenio Arima, David Backer, Allen Hicken, Ken Kollman, Joel Selway). “Election Cycles and Electricity Provision: Evidence from a Quasi-experiment with Indian Special Elections” (with Thushyanthan Baskaran and Yogesh Uppal). Related columns: Ideas for India,
Mint.
“Tracking Electrification in Vietnam Using Nighttime Lights” (with Kwawu Mensan Gaba). “Electoral Cycles in Electricity Losses in India” (with Miriam Golden). News coverage: Economic Times,
Hindustan Times,
India Today,
Mint,
DNA - Daily News and Analysis,
Firstpost,
Outlook,
Financial Express,
Business Standard.
“Detection of Rural Electrification in Africa using DMSP-OLS Night Lights Imagery” (with Kwawu Mensan Gaba, Ousmane Fall Sarr, Alassane Agalassou). “Distributive Politics Around the World” (with Miriam Golden). Supplemental inventory of articles on distributive politics “Why
Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and Analysis” (with Lars-Erik Cederman and Andreas Wimmer). “Ethnic
Politics and Armed Conflict: A Configurational
Analysis” (with Andreas Wimmer and Lars-Erik Cederman). Online
appendix with coding rules for the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) dataset
and additional tables. “Baghdad Nights:
Evaluating the US Military Surge Using Night Light Signatures” (with John
Agnew, Thomas W. Gillespie, and Jorge Gonzalez). Press
reactions: Reuters,
New
Scientist, Xinhua
(China), and blogs at the New
York Times - Freakonomics, Los
Angeles Times, USA
Today, The
Atlantic, Foreign
Policy, ADN
(Spain). “From
Empire to Nation-State: Explaining War in the Modern World, 1816–2001.” (with
Andreas Wimmer). Winner, 2007 Best
Paper Award, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association. |