Some career news -- I'm excited to be joining the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington (
@UW
) next year as an Assistant Professor!
My first paper, “Evaluations of Violence at the Polls: Civilian Victimization and Support for Perpetrators After War,” was recently accepted
@The_JOP
.
Manuscript:
My article, “Evaluations of Violence at the Polls: Civilian Victimization and Support for Perpetrators after War,” is officially published! Find it at: . A short 🧵:
Interested in "post-conflict" politics? Attending APSA? Come to our virtual panel tomorrow at 2pm PDT/5pm EST on "Transitioning from Conflict to Peace: The Case of Colombia"
📣We're pleased to announce the 2022-23 cohort of Peace Scholar Fellows! Among all the applicants, these 20 award recipients demonstrated the greatest potential to advance the peacebuilding field and the strongest likelihood to inform policy and practice:
In this paper, we consider how extortion experienced during migration shapes the civic and political engagement of deportees upon their forced return to their country of origin.
In which cases do citizens prefer vigilantism over conventional policing? David A. Dow, myself,
@D_JRomero
, and Juan Fernando Tellez consider this question in a paper recently accepted at
@cps_journal
. Read the article at:
I may be in the middle of the mental turmoil that is writing a dissertation prospectus and coming up with a **theory** that is big/small enough for a book, but I got my Master's today, so that's cool.
@MorganLKaplan
I study the determinants of attitudes toward political violence, in particular violence against civilians, in countries affected by conflict and instability (esp. in Latin America).
Join us for a panel on "Self-Determination, Identity Formation and Prospects for Violence and Peace," featuring
@burakdemir
@levy_gabriella
Michael Widmeier, Genevieve Parent & Kentaro Fujikawa in collaboration w/ Peace Studies. Friday @ 11 am EDT!
New
@WorldBank
Working Paper from me,
@sanmavicha
, Elaine Denny, and David Dow on how extortion during migration affects civic engagement among Guatemalan deportees:
I'm headed to
#ISA2022
this morning. Find me presenting tomorrow at panels on "Caught in the Crossfire: the Agency and Attitudes of Civilians in Conflict" and "Ex-combatants and the Peace Process!"
In which cases do citizens prefer vigilantism over conventional policing? David A. Dow, myself,
@D_JRomero
, and Juan Fernando Tellez consider this question in a paper recently accepted at
@cps_journal
. Read the article at:
Using
@LAPOP_Lab
data on Colombia, I find that military victimization has a less negative effect on support for the state among people who are ideologically aligned with the president.
@LAPOP_Lab
These results indicate that studying violence, governance or ideology in isolation paints an incomplete picture of civilian support for armed actors.
@LAPOP_Lab
There is also mixed evidence that the quality of state governance, particularly the provision of security from crime, shapes the ways people respond to military victimization.
@_danigilbert
I have a working paper (/R&R) with some awesome coauthors that does this! It isn't a survey experiment, but it is a survey. It was a battle between how much emphasis to place on each approach:
@D_JRomero
@cps_journal
We find that preferences for vigilantism depend on how transgressive the crime is as well as how unlikely it is to be prosecuted by the state. Victim and perpetrator gender, crime severity, and profession of the perpetrator affect whether people endorse vigilante punishment.
What does that mean? Respondents were more supportive of perpetrators who violated less stringent norms (i.e., killed rather than raped), who had less agency, (i.e., were forcibly recruited or reluctant to commit the crime)...
What are some actions to minimize the negative effects of displacement? How can we promote social cohesion?
Join us LIVE on Jan. 18 for a discussion and report launch with
@WorldBank
@Refugees
&
@FCDOGovUK
👉RSVP Here:
#ResilientCommunities
A conjoint survey in Colombia featuring hypothetical former combatants running for office indicates, in line with my argument, that attributes associated with integrity affect respondent preferences.
But, respondents did not prioritize security competence. They did not distinguish between collective and indiscriminate targeting, nor did they differentiate between candidates on the basis of gender or battles won.
Implications: people are attentive to the ethics of civilian victimization, but they don't see all such violence against civilians as equivalently unethical.
In this article, I examine what kinds of alleged perpetrators voters are more willing to support. I argue that people appraise candidates’ alleged involvement in violence by considering how their participation reflects competence and integrity.
"It was a force built for war, and now it has found a new one — on the streets of Colombia’s cities, where the police stand accused of treating civilian protesters as battlefield enemies."
@Rebecca_Dudley1
@nkuchong
@DaveASiegel
In it, we examine how third-party diplomatic and material support affect rebels' use of terrorism in civil wars. We use a formal model to argue that both forms of support prompt shifts in rebel targeting, away from civilian and toward military targets.
@D_JRomero
@cps_journal
To make sense of people's preferences, we draw on two logics of punishment: state substitution and retribution. We use a conjoint experiment presented to over 9,000 households across Guatemala.
Doing the work of
#NeverAgain
means not only never forgetting, but also paying attention to where "human dignity [is] trampled" today in the United States and around the world
#HolocaustMemorialDay
“Human dignity was trampled”
Holocaust survivor Batsheva Dagan says she remembers “they tattooed a number on my arm; it is just as visible today as it was back then” at the Auschwitz 75th anniversary ceremony
#HolocaustMemorialDay