[1] Her research focuses on the selection, responsiveness, and accountability of politicians in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.
[1][2] Golden studied political science at the University of California at Berkeley and the London School of Economics and Political Science before, receiving her Ph.D. in government from Cornell University in 1983.
[3][4] She is also an Associate Member of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.
[5][6] Golden was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2014[7] and was a Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University from 2018 to 2019.
[7] It has been supported by organisations such as National Science Foundation, the U.K.’s Department for International Development (DfID), the International Growth Center, and the governments of Canada and Quebec.