The past decade has seen a renaissance in the development of political event data sets.
This has been due to at least three sets of factors. First, there have been technological …

Under what conditions will a state repress its citizens? The literature examining human
rights violations lacks consensus over exactly how repression and dissent are interrelated. I …

We examine the role of bilateral political relations in sovereign wealth fund (SWF)
investment decisions. Our empirical results suggest that political relations play a role in SWF …

The literature on civil resistance finds that nonviolent campaigns are more likely to succeed
than violent insurgencies. A parallel literature on democratization poses mass mobilization …

This paper examines the investments of 19 sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in 424 firms
(both public and private) around the world from 1991 through 2010. The data indicate that …

What can states expect to receive in return for the military aid they provide to other states?
Can military aid buy recipient state compliance with donor objectives? In this study, we …

From Austria to New Zealand, coalition governments often pave the road to foreign policy. In
Western Europe, nearly 90 percent of postwar governments include two or more political …

This paper tests two institutional explanations for why some democratic countries have
experienced more anti-government protests than others. The first explanation deals with …

This study explains how the economy affects the foreign policy rhetoric used by American
presidents. When economic conditions deteriorate, presidents criticize foreign nations to …

Open-source event data sets frequently used for social science analysis rarely provide any
transparent explanation of the credibility of sources or the validity of data thereby obtained …