In this article, we combine a game‐theoretic treatment of public goods provision in networks
with a statistical network analysis to show that fragmented opposition network structures …

Tactical repertoires of mobilization and repression play an essential role in understanding
dynamics of political violence, yet existing quantitative approaches focus primarily on …

Advances in the study of civil war have led to the proliferation of event count data, and to a
corresponding increase in the use of (zero-inflated) count models for the quantitative …

For centuries, key pillars of the philosophy of science like Francis Bacon and David Hume,
have stressed that scientific progress occurs through the development of consistently …

The challenge of terrorism dates back centuries if not millennia. Until recently, the basic
approaches to analyzing terrorism—historical analogy and monitoring the contemporary …

Political event data are widely used in studies of political violence. Recent years have seen
notable advances in the automated coding of political event data from international news …

As you read this sentence, know that a riot is occurring somewhere in the world. Elsewhere,
or perhaps in the same location, government forces are constructing a barricade and a …

Huge amounts of news items are being published from various sources around the world.
Our interest in this paper is from the perspective of peace keeping organizations such as …

The goal of this paper is to provide a general overview of event data and its importance in
the study of political conflict. In doing so, we illustrate how the level of methodological …

The ability to successfully forecast impending societal unrest, from riots and protests to
assassinations and coups, would fundamentally transform the ability of nations to proactively …