dissertation

From Recognition to Representation: Collective Rights and Democratic Citizenship in the Philippines. Project summary.

  • Winner of the Lucian Pye Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis (MIT Political Science Department)

RESEARCH

Lisa Garbe, Nina McMurry, Alex Scacco, & Kelly Zhang. Forthcoming. Who Wants to be Legible? Digitalization and Intergroup Inequality in Kenya. Comparative Political Studies. Replication files.

Nina McMurry, 2022. From recognition to integration: indigenous autonomy, state authority, and national identity in the Philippines. American Political Science Review 116 (2). Replication files.

  • Winner of the 2019 Southeast Asian Politics Related Group Emerging Scholar Best Paper Award

  • Selected for the APSA Public Scholarship Program. Summary by Maria Nagawa here.

Julio S. Solis Arce, Shana S. Warren, Niccolo Meriggi, Alexandra Scacco, Nina McMurry, Maarten Voors, Georgiy Syunyaev, Amyn Malik et al., 2021. COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries. Nature Medicine.

  • Featured in media outlets including Meduza, the Hindustan Times, SciTechDaily, Eurasia Review, and the National Tribune

Evan Lieberman, Philip Martin, & Nina McMurry, 2021. When do Strong Parties ‘Throw the Bums Out’? Competition and Accountability in South African Candidate Nominations. Studies in Comparative International Development. Replication files.

Nina McMurry, Danielle Hiraldo, & Christopher Carter, 2021. The rise of Indigenous recognition: implications for comparative politics. APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter, XXXI (1).

Baobao Zhang, Sarah Kreps, Nina McMurry, & R. Miles McCain, 2020. Americans’ perceptions of privacy and surveillance in the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS One 15 (12). Replication files.

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS

 

Better together? Examining the effect of civic education for local officials and citizens in the Philippines (with Lily Tsai). Under review. Pre-analysis plan. Working paper. Appendix.

The Subnational Nonstate Actor Governance Project (with Michael Rubin & Andrew Halterman)

South African Councillor Panel Study (with Evan Lieberman & Philip Martin). Website.

policy writing

The effect of civic leadership training on citizen engagement and government responsiveness: experimental evidence from the Philippines. Making All Voices Count Research Report, January 2018 (with Lily Tsai & Selva Swetha A.R.).

Politicians’ perspective on voice and accountability: evidence from a survey of South African local councillors. Making All Voices Count Research Report, December 2017 (with Evan Lieberman & Philip Martin).

South Sudan is fighting again. Can its peacekeeping mission work? The Monkey Cage, September 1, 2016 (with Laura Bosco).

Here are 4 reasons that South Africa’s ANC lost ground in this month’s elections. The Monkey Cage, August 12, 2016 (with Philip Martin, Evan Lieberman, & Daniel de Kadt).