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• Comment: Sources are primarily about Arab Barometer or it's surveys, not article subject(ignoring non-independent sources) monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 23:03, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: As with most professor drafts, this one lacks independent reliable sources. Pbritti (talk) 04:22, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Michael Robbins is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics and public opinion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). He is the Director and Co‑Principal Investigator of the Arab Barometer,^[1][2][3] the leading research organization covering public opinion in the Arab region,^[4][5][6] which has conducted over 135,000 public opinion interviews. Robbins is a also senior researcher affiliated with Princeton University and is widely cited in international media and scholarly publications. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.^[7]

Robbins earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 2012. His dissertation, Bound by Brand: Opposition Party Support Under Electoral Authoritarianism,^[8] received the Aaron Wildavsky Award from the American Political Science Association in 2013 for best dissertation in religion and politics.^[9] He holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (2003).

Robbins has held key roles in major public opinion research organizations:

• Director and Co-Principal Investigator, Arab Barometer, Princeton University (2014–present)
• Former Research Associate, Pew Research Center (2012-2014)
• Former Research Fellow, University of Michigan’s Center for Political Studies (2014-2017)

Earlier in his career, Robbins worked with the World Bank and the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute at Qatar University.

Robbins has authored and co-authored dozens of academic articles and book chapters. His work has appeared in journals such as Foreign Affairs, Journal of Democracy, Comparative Political Studies, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Selected academic works include:

• America is Losing the Arab World. (2024). Foreign Affairs.
• What Palestinians Really Think of Hamas. (2023). Foreign Affairs.
• Why Democracy Stalled in the Middle East. (2022). Foreign Affairs.
• Improving data quality in face-to-face survey research. (2020). PS: Political Science & Politics.
• The ascendance of official Islams. (2017). Democracy and Security.
• The state of social justice in the Arab world: the Arab uprisings of 2011 and beyond. (2016). Contemporary Readings in Law & Social Justice.
• After the Arab Spring: People still want democracy. (2015). Journal of Democracy.
• Political System Preferences of Arab Publics. (2014). In The Arab Uprisings Explained. Columbia University Press.
• The rise of official Islam in Jordan. (2013). Politics, Religion & Ideology.
• The effect of elections on public opinion toward democracy: Evidence from longitudinal survey research in Algeria. (2012). Comparative Political Studies.
• New findings on Arabs and democracy. (2012). Journal of Democracy.
• What leads some ordinary Arab men and women to approve of terrorist acts against the United States? (2007). Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Robbins has contributed extensively to the field of research data quality. PercentMatch, developed by Michael Robbins and Noble Kuriakose, is a statistical tool designed to detect potential data fabrication in public opinion surveys.^[10] The program identifies respondents whose answers match an unusually high proportion of another respondent's answers—an indicator of possible falsification. Robbins and Kuriakose's analysis revealed that many widely used international survey datasets may contain significant levels of fabricated data.^[10]

The development and findings of PercentMatch received broad attention, including coverage in Science^[11] and The Washington Post.^[12][13] A peer-reviewed study in Political Analysis^[14] concluded that PercentMatch was the most effective available statistical method for identifying falsified responses in survey data and it is widely cited as a key tool for the analysis of data quality at leading universities.^[15]

The impact of this work was substantial: it helped spark renewed scrutiny of survey data quality and served as a cornerstone for two major task force reports—one by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and a joint AAPOR and World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR).^[16] These reports established best practices and standards for quality assurance in public opinion research with Robbins serving as an author on the joint AAPOR/WAPOR task force.^[16] Robbins is also an author of the quality control section on a revised and updated version the United Nations Handbook on household surveys.

Robbins' analysis has been featured in the Washington Post,^[17][18][19] Foreign Policy,^[20] and The Conversation.^[21] He has written extensively for the Monkey Cage blog , focusing on topics such as political Islam, public attitudes toward democracy, and Arab responses to conflict. His work and expertise has been featured in: The New York Times,^[22] The Economist,^[23] The BBC,^{[24][25][26][27]}, CNN,^[28][29] and the Sunday Times Radio,^[30] Der Spiegel,^[31], Al Jazeera,^[32] the CBC,^[33] among others.^[34] He is also a frequent expert panelist lecturer and panelist, appearing at Stanford University,^[35] the Doha Forum^[36][37] and more.^{[38][39][5][40]}

• Lifetime member, Council on Foreign relations
• Aaron Wildavsky Award, American Political Science Association (2013)
• Research funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, MEPI, Qatar National Research Fund, and Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School (2009–2010)

Robbins is a member of the Board of Directors of the Santa Fe Opera^[41] and the Lensic Center for the Performing Arts.^[42]

• Arab Barometer Profile
• Personal Website