Stanford University
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Daniel Watt
Graduate, Economics
BioEconomics PhD applicant in 2024/2025. Background in computer science and mathematics. Mostly working in econometrics at the moment.
Most recent public work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wJphIGLWgop_cami8YgWlzj57wA5hEz2/view
Current CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_a8INsxDUiqZ264Ser46eQf10wCjBMYR/view -
Barry R. Weingast
Ward C. Krebs Family Professor and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
On Leave from 01/01/2025 To 06/30/2025BioBarry R. Weingast is the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor, Department of Political Science, and a Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution. He served as Chair, Department of Political Science, from 1996 through 2001. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Weingast’s research focuses on the political foundation of markets, economic reform, and regulation. He has written extensively on problems of political economy of development, federalism and decentralization, legal institutions and the rule of law, and democracy. Weingast is co-author of Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (with Douglass C. North and John Joseph Wallis, 2009, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) and Analytic Narratives (1998, Princeton). He edited (with Donald Wittman) The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford University Press, 2006). Weingast has won numerous awards, including the William H. Riker Prize, the Heinz Eulau Prize (with Ken Shepsle), the Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award (with Kenneth Schultz), and the James L. Barr Memorial Prize in Public Economics. -
Chagai Weiss
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology
BioChagai M. Weiss is a postdoctoral fellow at the Conflict and Polarization Lab at Stanford University. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2022 after spending two years as a Middle East Initiative predoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Chagai's core interest is in examining how institutions and the people within them shape intergroup relations in divided societies. He is also working on several projects examining the effects of scalable interventions for prejudice reduction, the electoral effects of conflict, the institutional origins of partisan polarization, and experimental methods. His research has been published or is forthcoming in Cambridge University Press, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and other journals.
