The idea of studying peace has gained considerable traction in the past few years after
languishing in the shadows of conflict for decades but how should it be studied? The Peace …

What explains support for violence against the state? The surge in survey-based studies in
(former) conflict areas has improved our understanding of the determinants of armed conflict …

Concerns focused on the political instability of states with persistent high fertility and large
cohorts of young adults—what some have called a “youth bulge”(eg Urdal, 2006; Weber …

Scholars have long accepted the contention that competition among terrorist organizations
raises the level of violence used by the competitors. This article discusses this claim and …

Do autocratic institutions matter for the welfare of average citizens? Despite the large
literature comparing democracies and autocracies, we know little about how human …

Setting a new benchmark for studies of technocracy, this book shows that a solution to the
challenge of populism will depend as much on a technocratic retreat as democratic …

This meta-analysis of 142 studies from 36 countries examines how the institutional
environment moderates the relationship between family involvement and firm performance …

In this article, we re-analyze the hypothesis that the relationship between the type of political
regime and its political instability forms an inverted U shape. Following this logic, consistent …

Abstract Does hosting UN Peacekeeping Operations (UN PKOs) increase multilateral
foreign aid inflows into civil war-affected countries? Under what conditions do UN PKOs …

This article evaluates how territorial autonomy affects ethnic mobilization and conflict during
regime transitions. Previous research has highlighted its conflict-inducing role during …