Early research on wartime violence against civilians highlighted a distinction between macro-
and micro-level approaches. Macro-level approaches, grounded in the international …

What are the political and economic consequences of contention (ie, genocide, civil war,
state repression/human rights violation, terrorism, and protest)? Despite a significant amount …

Conflict event datasets are used widely in academic, policymaking, and public spheres.
Accounting for political violence across the world requires detailing conflict types, agents …

Why does government violence deter political challengers in one context but inflame them in
the next? This paper argues that repression increases opposition activity at low and …

Legacies of political violence are long-term changes in social behavior and attitudes, which
are attributable–at least in part–to historical episodes of political conflict and contention …

With increased availability of disaggregated conflict event data for analysis, there are new
and old concerns about bias. All data have biases, which we define as an inclination …

Election violence is often conceptualized as a form of coercive campaigning, but the
literature has not fully explored how electoral institutions shape incentives for competition …

ABSTRACT A growing literature explores the causes and consequences of dramatic political
protests in autocracies. Yet, we know comparatively little about other forms of protests in …

This paper relies on Machine Learning (ML) and supervised Natural Language Processing
(NLP) to generate a geo-referenced database on the violent presence of Mexican Criminal …

This article examines the conditional effect that repression has on non-violent vs. violent
mass mobilization. While governments often resort to violence to deter future mobilization …