Why do Muslim-majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of
socio-economic development in comparison to world averages? Ahmet T. Kuru criticizes …

Since Beck, Katz, and Tucker (1998), the standard method for modeling time dependence in
binary data has been to incorporate time dummies or splined time in logistic regressions …

It is commonly accepted that resource-rich economies tend to fail in accelerating growth
because of various adverse effects of abundant natural resources, such as Dutch disease …

Background Public acceptance of genetically modified crops is partly rooted in religious
views. However, the views of different religions and their potential influence on consumers' …

The context of mediation immediately highlights the importance of argumentation as a
means to reasonably handle conflict. Argumentation in dispute mediation tackles this topic …

Stereotypes of refugee subgroups are still understudied. We contribute to this body of
research by investigating differences in stereotype content, meaning warmth and …

In recent years, most armed conflicts have taken place in Muslim countries. Are Muslim
countries more war-prone? Not necessarily, if we look at data for the whole period after …

Since Ted Gurr's Why Men Rebel it has become conventional wisdom that (relative)
deprivation creates grievances and that these grievances in turn lead to intergroup violence …

What makes a terrorist? Is an individual inherently predisposed to be attracted to political
violence or does exposure to a certain environment desensitize them in such a way that …

We study the association between natural resource rents and internal political stability,
highlighting the importance of the distribution of political power as a mediating factor. We …