Leadership targeting has become a key feature of counterterrorism policy. Both academics
and policymakers have argued that the removal of leaders is an effective strategy in …

This article argues that when democracy is not yet institutionalized, leaders have little
incentive to push for clean elections, in part because they are likely to face accusations of …

What explains widespread coethnic voting in the Middle East? The prevailing understanding
revolves around clientelism: the view that MENA citizens support coethnic parties and …

This article examines the determinants of voting in competitive authoritarian regimes in the
Arab world. In contrast to scholars who view elections in the Arab World purely as patronage …

Does nonviolent repression prompt subject groups to obey or rebel? By what mechanism
does it do so? To address these questions, we exploit a natural experiment based on a 2009 …

In much of the Muslim world, Islamic political and economic movements appear to have a
comparative advantage. Relative to similar secular groups, they are better able to mobilize …

Political Islam is a modern phenomenon that seeks to use religion to shape the political
system. Its origins lie in the perceived failure of the secular ideologies of nationalism and …

This study reports findings from what is, to the authors' knowledge, the first nationally
representative survey of public attitudes toward honor-based violence (HBV) in a Middle …

The Arab revolutions that started in 2011 and the rapid political change that took place in
countries that were considered stable caught researchers by surprise. This focused attention …

This article uses rare, nationally representative survey data collected before and after the
blockade of Qatar that began in June 2017 to assess its impact on citizens' orientations …