Daniel Berliner joined the Department of Government in 2017. Previously he was Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota and, and Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 2012. His primary research focuses on the roles of information in politics and governance. This includes studying the impacts of information on both voter and bureaucratic behaviour; the politics of transparency, accountability, and participation reforms; and transnational multistakeholder governance reform initiatives. He studies these topics using both qualitative and quantitative methods, and both in Mexico, South Africa, the United States, and in global context. His research has appeared in journals including the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and World Development.
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