Political scientists are fielding more and more surveys in the developing world. Yet, most
survey research methodology derives from experiences in developed countries …

At conferences, at seminars, and on political science blogs, the potential utility of
experimental methods for international relations (IR) research continues to be a hotly …

List and endorsement experiments are becoming increasingly popular among social
scientists as indirect survey techniques for sensitive questions. When studying issues such …

When rebel groups with state-building ambitions capture territory, who stays and why?
Through semi-structured interviews and an original household survey in the Iraqi city of …

Greed-based theories of civil war predict that rebel groups will only engage in taxation and
other state-building activities in areas where they lack exploitable resources. However, this …

Governments, militaries, and aid organizations all rely on economic interventions to shape
civilian attitudes toward combatants during wartime. We have, however, little individual-level …

Are civilian attitudes a useful predictor of patterns of violence in civil wars? A prominent
debate has emerged among scholars and practitioners about the importance of winning …

Process tracing is an invaluable tool in the civil war scholar's toolkit. Or, rather, it should be,
for it provides the ability to move beyond statistical association toward causal inference …

From mobilizing masses to monitoring rebels, information and communication technologies
(ICT) are transforming political conflict. We reflect on the contributions made by the articles of …

Scholars of civil war and insurgency have long posited that insurgent organizations and their
state enemies incur costs for the collateral damage they cause. We provide the first direct …