Matthew Stephen Winters
· ProfessorUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Arms Control & Domestic and International Security
Active 2004–2026
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About
Matthew Stephen Winters is a professor affiliated with the Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security at the Illinois Global Institute. His research interests include foreign aid, development, corruption, and issues related to Indonesia and Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and serves as a professor in the Department of Political Science. Additionally, he is the director of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and holds professorships at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Center for Global Studies. His work focuses on international development, public service provision, policy implementation, and public support for aid, contributing to the understanding of global security and development issues.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Public relations
- Economics
- Law
- Public administration
- Business
- Social psychology
- Accounting
- Marketing
Selected publications
Foreign Aid and State-Society Relations: Theory, Evidence, and New Directions for Research
Studies in Comparative International Development · 2020 · 58 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingWorld Development · 2020 · 34 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingForeign pressure and public opinion in target states
World Development · 2023-05-26 · 19 citations
articleSenior authorCorrespondingWorld Politics · 2023 · 14 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingabstract : Prominent scholarship on foreign aid argues that aid can interfere with citizens' ability to hold politicians accountable. One particular concern is that politicians receive undeserved credit for aid projects due to misattribution by voters with low information. But in some cases, politicians exert effort to ensure the success of projects and thus may deserve any credit they receive from voters. The authors show that the credit politicians receive depends both on voter information and…
Comparative Political Studies · 2023-04-02 · 8 citations
articleSenior authorWe examine a phenomenon we call “credit claiming by labeling” in which a sitting politician places her name on a project, program, or policy with the goal of claiming credit for it. While the prevalence of this practice suggests that many politicians believe that credit claiming by labeling will aid their careers, there is little existing evidence on this question. We examine the effects of credit claiming by labeling with a survey experiment in Argentina. We find that it has a negative, though…
Frequent coauthors
- 36 shared
Rebecca Weitz‐Shapiro
Brown University
- 15 shared
Simone Dietrich
University of Geneva
- 6 shared
Minhaj Mahmud
- 6 shared
Susan Hyde
University of California, San Francisco
- 5 shared
Masaru Kohno
Waseda University
- 5 shared
Gabriella R. Montinola
University of California, Davis
- 4 shared
John Gould
Curtin University
- 4 shared
Kate Baldwin
Yale University
Education
- 2009
Ph.D., Department of Political Science
Columbia University
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