Miriam Golden is a Research Fellow at CERP. She is the Peter Mair Chair in Comparative Politics at, European University Institute. Her research spans political accountability and responsiveness, including corruption and clientelism, distributive politics, political parties, incumbency, and re-election; also politics of energy and water. With economist Raymond Fisman, Dr Miriam has recently completed Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know, forthcoming with Oxford University Press. She has conducted field research on issues of corruption and political malfeasance in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Dr Miriam’s recent fieldwork uses experimental designs. Long a proponent of research transparency and replicability, Dr Miriam has assembled multiple data sets that are available in the public domain on Dataverse. She received her PhD from Cornell University and did her undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley and at the London School of Economics and Political Science.