Meet the Candidates: Information and Accountability in Primary and General Elections
Co-PI: Pia Raffler, Yale University
Research
Interests
Melina Platas's research interests include comparative politics, African politics, voting behavior and elections, global health, political economy of development, and Islam in Africa.
Highlighted Research
SMS for Better Service Provision in Uganda
Co-PIs: Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University
The Religious Roots of Inequality in Africa
Across much of sub-Saharan Africa, Muslims have lower educational attainment than Christians, with fewer years of education, lower school attendance rates, and lower literacy rates.
Research Group in Network Science
Substantive areas of research range from neighborhood segregation, to boundary conditions of diffusion, to trust and betrayal, to firm networks.