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Making Sense, Making Choices: How Civilians Choose Survival Strategies during Violence

How do ordinary people choose survival strategies during intense, surprising political violence? Why do some flee violence, while others fight back, adapt, or hide? Individual decision-making during violence has vast political consequences, but remains poorly understood.

Descriptive Representation and Conflict Reduction: Evidence from India's Maoist Rebellion

Can greater inclusion in democracy for historically-disadvantaged groups reduce rebel violence? Democracy-building is a common tool in counterinsurgencies and post-conflict states, yet existing scholarship has faced obstacles in measuring the …

Data Security in Human Subjects Research: New Tools for Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Scholars

Political science research in both qualitative and quantitative traditions frequently uses data that contain personal information about research participants. Personal information can enter the research process in different ways; sometimes …

Facts Shape Feelings: Information, Emotions, and the Political Consequences of Violence

What makes violence political? Existing research argues that experiencing violence generates anger and grievances, which cause political mobilization, retribution, and spirals of escalating violence. I argue that the effect of violence on the …

Scalable Equilibrium Computation in Multi-Agent Influence Games on Networks

We provide a polynomial-time, scalable algorithm for equilibrium computation in multi-agent influence games on networks, extending work of Bindel, Kleinberg, and Oren (2015) from the single-agent to the multi-agent setting. In games of influence, …

COVID-19 and Fieldwork: Challenges and Solutions

This reflection article presents insights on conducting fieldwork during and after COVID-19 from a diverse collection of political scientists—from department heads to graduate students based at public and private universities in the United States and …

Digital India? An Email Experiment with Indian Legislators

Of the many tasks elected representatives perform, constituency service is among the most difficult to observe and, therefore, to measure. However, a burgeoning literature uses digital tools such as email to experimentally evaluate the responsiveness …