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Graeme Blair

  • PhD Student
  • Princeton University

Roles

Researchers

Graeme Blair is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and studies resource rent distribution bargains in oil-rich countries and the consequences for conflict with a focus on West Africa. He also studies the determinants of citizen support for armed groups in several contexts from Nigeria to Afghanistan, and methods for asking sensitive survey questions. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and Political Analysis, and won the 2013 Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper at MPSA. It is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the International Growth Centre, and anonymous donors.

Projects

Exploratory study in artisanal small-scale mining in Liberia

Graeme Blair, Darin Christensen 15 Aug 2021
Project
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Poverty, Militancy, and Demands in Natural Resource-Rich Regions: Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits Dividend Plan for the Niger Delta

Kosuke Imai, Graeme Blair 30 Nov 2012
Project

All contributions

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Civilians and the Strategic Use of Information during Conflict in Resource-Rich Territory (Working Paper)

Graeme Blair, Kosuke Imai
Working paper
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Poverty, Militancy, and Citizen Demands in Natural Resource-Rich Regions (Policy Brief)

Graeme Blair, Kosuke Imai
Policy brief