Affiliate & Associate

Research

What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books

Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters.

Religious leaders can motivate men to cede power and reduce intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Uganda

Does providing men with more progressive religious interpretations of gender roles by religious leaders during premarital or couples counseling encourage men to share power, thus reducing violence?

The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy

Is state repression effective in fostering regime survival?

The Intergenerational Transmission of Higher Education: Evidence from the 1973 Coup in Chile

What impact did the Pinochet dictatorship have on college enrollment?

Rebel Motivations and Repression

How do different types of motivation influence the politics of collective action?

The Immigrant Next Door: Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism

We study how decades-long exposure to individuals of a given foreign descent shapes natives' attitudes and behavior toward that group.

Killer Incentives: Rivalry, Performance and Risk-Taking among German Fighter Pilots, 1939–45

What effect does public recognition have on performance and risk-taking?

Repatriation During Conflict: A Signaling Analysis

Under what conditions do Tripartite Repatriation Agreements signal that it is safer in a country of origin?

The Geopolitical Strategy of Refugee Camps

"This article shows that strategic refugee policy involves asylum countries carefully balancing demands of domestic constituents against efficient provision of aid and the provocation of armed actors across an international border."

The Pull to the Liberal Public: Gender, Orientalism, and Peace Building in Afghanistan

The article argues that countless rural and urban women are, for many reasons, unable to or lack the desire to enter the liberal public and may not even have the choice or desire to retreat from the interpenetrating spaces of customs, values, traditions, culture, and religion.

Embodied Reconciliation: a New Research Agenda

The research argues for a paradigm shift towards an embodied approach to reconciliation.

Population and Conflict

Has an increase in population increased the likelihood of resource-based conflict?

The Weak State Trap

Using original data from Colombia, the authors present evidence of the interconnection between two critical political components: state weakness and clientelism.

Security Transitions

How do foreign powers disengage from a conflict?

Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence

Can revenue sharing of resource rents be a source of distributive conflict?

Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Historical Political Economy

By bringing together different forms of expertise, interdisciplinary collaboration helps to shine new light on existing problems in historical political economy while opening new avenues of research within and across the disciplines.

Is Putin’s popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes

Opinion polls suggest that Vladimir Putin has broad support in Russia, but there are concerns that some respondents may be lying to pollsters.

Authoritarian International Law?

What would international law look like in an increasingly authoritarian world?

Machine-Learning Human Rights

Utilizing a comprehensive panel dataset spanning from 1900 to 2020, this study introduces an innovative methodology for the analysis and categorization of legal documents, specifically national constitutions.

Drama therapy as a mental health intervention for women in the shatila refugee camp, Lebanon

Can drama therapy be an effective psychological intervention for refugee women?

Complements or Substitutes? How Institutional Arrangements Bind Traditional Authorities and the State in Africa

How does the central state affect public goods provision by local actors?

Africa's Latent Assets

Despite the past centuries' economic setbacks and challenges, are there reasons for optimism about Africa's economic prospects?

Conceptualizing Criminal Governance

The author develops a conceptual framework centered around the who, what, and how of criminal governance, organizing extant research and proposing a novel dimension: charismatic versus rational-bureaucratic forms of criminal authority.

Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance

Criminal groups govern millions worldwide. Even in strong states, gangs resolve disputes and provide security. Why do these duopolies of coercion emerge?

JUE Insights: Does mobility explain why slums were hit harder by COVID-19 in India?

SARS-CoV-2 has had a greater burden, as measured by rate of infection, in poorer communities within cities. This research shows there is little evidence for two explanations offered to explain the greater burden in poorer communities.

Chapter 17: Amnesties and transitional justice

Chapter by Pearson Faculty Affiliate Louise Mallinder in the book, "Research Handbook on Transitional Justice," edited by Cheryl Lawther and Luke Moffett.

Preventing the Next Insurgency: A Pathway for Reintegrating Iraq's Sunni Population

How can we address reintegration in post-ISIS Iraq?

A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany

The researchers use novel data on the appointment of local mayors and a retrospective survey to argue that even a "glimpse of freedom" can foster civilian opposition to dictatorship.

Higher Education and Mortality: Legacies of an Authoritarian College Contraction

The authors "provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality."

Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State

The authors use the arbitrarily defined borders of rubber concessions granted in the north of the Congo Free State to examine the causal effects of this form of economic organization on development.

After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability

What are the differing effects of the mechanisms of transitional justice, and what impact do they have on the democratic process?

How Does Kompromat Affect Politics? A Model of Transparency Regimes

Why are transparency regimes relatively rare?

Transatlantic Shakedown: Presidential Shaming and NATO Burden Sharing

What is the effectiveness of using public shaming language of allies’ defense spending?

Setting Targets: Abatement Cost, Vulnerability, and the Agreement of NATO’s Wales Pledge on Defense Investment

Why do countries mutually agree to constraints on their behavior? Why do they comply with such constraints in the absence of enforcement mechanisms?

Biden Must Stand Up to China on Human Rights

How can a U.S. administration promote human rights in China?

Social Cohesion and Community Displacement in Armed Conflict

What are the origins of conflict-related population displacement?

Foreign Sponsorship of Armed Groups and Civil War

Under what conditions do armed groups escalate their campaigns to civil war?

On the Origins of the State: Stationary Bandits and Taxation in Eastern Congo

Can armed actors perform essential functions of a state and increase welfare?

Whither Formal Contracts?

Research documents two ways society limits the benefits of contracts.

The Real State: Inside the Congo’s Traffic Police Agency

This paper analyzes the organization of corruption in a state agency.

Rebel Capacity, Intelligence Gathering, and the Timing of Combat Operations

Does rebel capacity influence how these forces fight or are they simply unpredictable?

The Evolution of Civil Wars Research: From Civil War to Political Violence

How has research on civil conflict evolved over the past 25 years?

Stabilizing Civil Wars without Peacekeeping: Evidence from South Asia

How do internal wars stabilize in the absence of meaningful international involvement?

A History of Afghanistan in 100 Objects, Treasures from the National Museum of Afghanistan

A History of Afghanistan in 100 Objects tells the story of this extraordinary country by highlighting significant pieces in the National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul.

How contact can promote societal change amid conflict: An intergroup contact field experiment in Nigeria

Can conflict-based interventions improve intergroup relations?

Unbundling Peacebuilding: How Mediation and Community Dialogues Help to Prevent and Manage Violent Conflict in North Central Nigeria 

The authors conducted a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) on a peacebuilding program that combined two different types of peacebuilding interventions: community dialogues and mediation training for local leaders.

Public response to government alerts saves lives during Russian invasion of Ukraine

How effective are air raid alerts in Ukraine?

Aid Fragmentation and Corruption

Aid fragmentation—the simultaneous operation of multiple development agencies in one setting—has long raised concerns about coordination challenges and opportunities for corruption.

Why Turkey Should Stay Out of Sinjar

What are the negative consequences of a Turkish military incursion?