Allison Carnegie is Director of the Politics and Global Economy (PaGE) Lab at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. She received a joint PhD in Political Science and Economics from Yale University in 2014. Her research interests include international relations, international organizations, and international political economy. She is the author of Secrets in Global Governance: Disclosure Dilemmas and the Challenge of International Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 2020) with Austin Carson and Power Plays: How International Institutions Reshape Coercive Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Her work has been published in a variety of outlets including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Economics & Politics, Foreign Affairs, International Organization, Journal of Politics, and Political Analysis. She held a research fellowship at Princeton University and has received awards including the International Political Economy Society’s David A. Lake Award, the Bill and Melinda Gates GDN Award, and International Organization’s Robert O Keohane award.
Books
Allison Carnegie and Austin Carson, Secrets in Global Governance: Disclosure Dilemmas and the Challenge of International Cooperation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Allison Carnegie, Power Plays: How International Institutions Reshape Coercive Diplomacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Principal Articles
Allison Carnegie, Kimberly Howe, Adam Lichtenheld, and Dipali Mukhopadhyay, “Winning Hearts and Minds for Rebel Rulers: Foreign Aid and Military Contestation in Syria,” British Journal of Political Science, 52, no. 3 (July 2022).
Allison Carnegie and Nikhar Gaikwad, “Public Opinion on Geopolitics and Trade: Theory and Evidence,” World Politics 74, no. 2 (April 2022).
Allison Carnegie, Kimberly Howe, Adam Lichtenheld, and Dipali Mukhopadhyay, “The effects of foreign aid on rebel governance: Evidence from a large-scale US aid program in Syria,” Economics & Politics 34, no. 1 (March 2022).
Allison Carnegie, “Secrecy in International Relations and Foreign Policy,” Annual Review of Political Science, 24, no. 1 (May 2021).
Allison Carnegie and Austin Carson, “UN Peacekeeping After the Pandemic: An Increased Role for Intelligence,” Survival 63, no. 2 (April-May 2021).
Allison Carnegie and Cyrus Samii, “International Institutions and Political Liberalization: Evidence from the World Bank Loans Program,” British Journal of Political Science (October 2019).
Allison Carnegie and Austin Carson, “The Disclosure Dilemma: Nuclear Intelligence and International Organizations,” American Journal of Political Science 63, no. 2 (April 2019).
Allison Carnegie and Austin Carson, “Reckless Rhetoric? Compliance Pessimism and International Order in the Age of Trump,” Journal of Politics Special Issue 81, no. 2 (April 2019).
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Allison Carnegie, and Nikhar Gaikwad, “Economic Crises and Trade Policy Competition,” British Journal of Political Science 48, no. 3 (July 2018).
Allison Carnegie and Austin Carson, “The Spotlight’s Harsh Glare: Rethinking Publicity and International Order,” International Organization 72, no. 3 (Summer 2018).
Allison Carnegie and Nikolay Marinov, “The Effects of Foreign Aid on Rights and Governance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” American Journal of Political Science 61, no. 2 (July 2017).
Allison Carnegie, “States Held Hostage: Political Hold-up Problems and the Effects of International Institutions,” American Political Science Review 108, no. 1 (February 2014).
Peter Aronow and Allison Carnegie, “Beyond LATE: Estimation of the Average Treatment Effect with an Instrumental Variable,” Political Analysis 21, no. 4 (Autumn 2013).
Allison Carnegie, Donald P. Green, Andrew Healy, Neil Malhotra, Melissa R. Michelson, and Ali Adam Valenzuela, “The Effect of Prepaid Postage on Election Turnout: A Cautionary Tale for Election Administrators,” Election Law Journal 11, no. 3 (September 2012).
Allison Carnegie, Donald P. Green, and Allison J. Sovey, “Instrumental Variables Estimation in Political Science: A Reader’s Guide,” American Journal of Political Science 55, no. 1 (January 2011).
Book Chapters
Allison Carnegie, Donald P. Green, and Joel Middleton, “Political Communication: Insights from Field Experiments,” in Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Kate Kenski, eds., Oxford Handbook of Political Communication (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Allison Carnegie, Alan S. Gerber, and Donald P. Green, “Evaluating Public Health Law Using Randomized Experiments,” in Scott Burris and Alex Wagenaar, eds., Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2012).
Other Articles, Testimony and Reports
Allison Carnegie, Richard Clark, and Ayse Kaya, “Private Participation: How Populists Engage with International Organizations,” International Political Economy Society, 8 March 2022.