Contributions to the quantitative civil war literature increasingly rely on geo-referenced data
and disaggregated research designs. While this is a welcome trend, it necessitates …

This article introduces the global Pro-Government Militias Database (PGMD). Despite the
devastating record of some pro-government groups, there has been little research on why …

This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts
about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors …

Public Administration, the field's oldest journal, is now 100 years old. Despite this centenary,
it has only been relatively recently that scholars have examined questions of:(1) how …

It is hard to avoid seeing ethnicity, race, or nationality wherever one looks. Differences in
education, income, and health are often patterned along ethnic or racial lines. But how do …

Why do some countries fall apart, often along their ethnic fault lines, while others have held
together over decades and centuries, despite governing an equally diverse population …

Why do some autocracies remain stable while others collapse? This article presents a
theoretical framework that seeks to explain the longevity of autocracies by referring to three …

Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten
years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women to parliament …

A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised
human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We think we …

Some of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars of our time involve the rapid formation
and disintegration of alliances among warring groups, as well as fractionalization within …