How is political violence gendered? We connect the traditional political violence literature's
emphasis on categorizing attacks to the gender and politics literature's analysis of the …

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 …

We investigate the effect of violence against civilians on voting. Using data from elections in
Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1990 and 2014 and exploiting variation in war intensity …

Voicing Politics brings together the latest findings from psychology and political science to
reveal how the linguistic peculiarities of different languages can have meaningful …

What factors influence women's political success in ethnically divided societies? Using an
original survey experiment in the Indian state of Bihar, supplemented with qualitative …

How does armed conflict affect the social fabric of societies? This question is central if we
want to understand better why some countries experience repeated cycles of violence. In …

This study explores the role of issue-specific knowledge in citizens' decisions regarding
coproducing public services. We argue that issue-specific knowledge increases citizens' …

Dozens of studies have shown that individuals who voted for the winning party in an election
tend to be more satisfied with democracy than those who did not. However, a number of …

The level of women's parliamentary representation often increases after armed conflict, but
do voters in postwar societies actually prefer female electoral candidates? We answer this …

While women's political inclusion is central to international conflict resolution efforts, public
attitudes in conflict states towards women's political inclusion remain understudied. We …