Reflexivity and Temporality in Researching Violent Settings: Problems with the Replicability and Transparency Regime
"Immigration and Democratic Principles: On Carens' Ethics of Immigration"
Democratically consolidated, externally threatened, and NATO aligned: finding unexpected deficiencies in civilian contro...
Power Relations, Coalitions, and Rent Control: Reforming the Military's Natural Resource Levies
Levies imposed on the export earnings of natural resource producers provide the armed forces with sizeable off-budget revenue not subject to oversight or scrutiny. Why do some nations succeed at reforming or eliminating these levies, while others do not? This article argues that outcomes have to do with the balance of coalition strength between civ...
Can nonexperts really emulate statistical learning methods? A comment on “The accuracy, fairness, and limits of predicti...
Recent research has questioned the value of statistical learning methods for producing accurate predictions in the criminal justice context. Using results from respondents on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurkers) who were asked to predict recidivism, Dressel and Farid (2018) argue that nonexperts can achieve predictive accuracy and fairness on par with...
Non‐Governmental Monitoring of Local Governments Increases Compliance with Central Mandates: A National‐Scale Field Expe...
On the Meaning of Survey Reports of Roll‐Call “Votes”
Strategic Violence during Democratization: Evidence from Myanmar
abstractDemocratic transitions are often followed by conflict. This article explores one explanation: the military’s strategic use of violence to retain control of economically valuable regions. The authors uncover this dynamic in Myanmar, a country transitioning from four decades of military rule. Fearing that the new civilian government will asse...
The Political Sources of Religious Identification: Evidence from the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire Border
Under what conditions does religion become a salient social identity? By measuring religious attachment among the people living astride the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire border in West Africa, an arbitrary boundary that exposes otherwise similar individuals to different political contexts, this article makes a case for the importance of the political ...
Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change
