Tex Meth Conference of the Political Methodology Society

Ashrakat Elshehawy

Postdoctoral Fellow

My research interests incorporates apects of Political Economy of Development and the Political Economy of Information. My research focuses on the economic history of state-institutions, local public good provision, informal social-welfare, and the political economy of Islamic institutions, with a regional focus of the Middle East. My research also evaluates effects of foreign interventions on domestic politics, in regions that span beyond the Middle East, employing advanced methods of Natural Language processing and computational text analysis.