Daniel Posner

Daniel N. Posner is the James S. Coleman Professor of International Development in UCLA's Department of Political Science. His research focuses on ethnic politics, distributive politics, and the political economy of development in Africa. He employs experimental methods to study collective action dilemmas in ethnically diverse communities and analyzes the political salience of ethnic cleavages.

He has received numerous awards including the Luebbert Book Award (2006, 2010), Heinz Eulau Article Award (2008), and Best Paper Award from APSA's Experimental Methods Section (2019). His recent publications investigate interethnic relations, COVID-19 responses across societies, decentralization impacts in Kenya, and methodological advances in bias measurement. Professor Posner is the founder of the Working Group in African Political Economy and affiliated with multiple global research networks.