The Purpose of Research in Effective Altruism and Political Science (REAPS) is to create and sustain a community of researchers interested in governance and politics questions focused on minimizing the suffering and improving the welfare of all. Join Us!

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Fields of Research include, but are not limited to, American politics, area studies (e.g., China, Middle East, etc.), comparative politics, formal modeling, international relations, law & politics, political economy, political philosophy/theory, political psychology, public policy, and statistical methods.

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Issue Areas include, but are not limited to, AI safety, animal welfare, biosecurity, climate change, existential & global catastrophic risks, global health, global peace & cooperation, institutional decision-making, norms of governance & politics, and nuclear conflict.

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REAPS is co-founded and organized by:

Caroline Jeanmaire (Oxford)

Mahendra Prasad (Berkeley)

Nicholas Emery-Xu (UCLA)

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