About the Department

Nahomi Ichino is an Assistant Professor of Government and formerly an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Professor Ichino’s research interests include the politics and political economy of sub-Saharan Africa, and political parties and electoral politics in Africa, with a particular focus on fraud and the use and impact of violence in elections in Ghana and Nigeria.  Her current research in Ghana is supported by NSF grant SES-0752986.  She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and her B.A. from Yale University.  

Publications

Deterring or Displacing Electoral Irregularities? Spillover Effects of Observers in a Randomized Field Experiment in Ghana  (with Matthias Schündeln; Journal of Politics, 2012, 74(1): 292-307)

Primaries on Demand? Intra-Party Politics and Nominations in Ghana (with Noah Nathan; forthcoming 2012, British Journal of Political Science)

Working Papers

Do Primaries Improve Electoral Performance? Evidence from Ghana (with Noah Nathan; January 2012 version, revised and resubmitted)

The Comparative Method, the Method of Difference, and Inferential Leverage (with Adam Glynn; January 2011 version)

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