Josh Fawcett Weiner

Gastown or the West End are closer options, but Gastown is definitely touristy. If you want to spend less time at the conference, the Drive is really nice and you can still take the Skytrain right downtown.

Congratulations, Tanya!

Congratulations, Charmaine!

Glad to see this paper with Noah Schouela out and open access at @psrm.bsky.social. There’s a lot written about state capacity and civil war: how state (in)capacity explains when civil wars happen and where and how they are fought.

One of my recent articles has now been officially assigned page numbers in Journal of Conflict Resolution.

🔍 Key finding: The spatial distribution of loyal, disloyal, and wavering rebel supporters explains who gets targeted and where.

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

📚 Are you building a dataset? Simplify the coding with your own data collection app! I've written a tutorial on how to build an app in #R #Shiny that allows you to input, save, and edit data in an interactive online environment.

➡️ www.sebastianvanbaalen.se/uploads/tuto...

PolSciData Conflictsky

Thank you!

Thanks for putting this together! Can you add me to Part II, please?

As people are leaving X and joining Bluesky instead, here is a starter pack of peace and conflict researchers for all new users ⤵️

go.bsky.app/7o8tZt2

I’ve created @polviolencepapers.bsky.social to repost working papers on political violence. Since Bluesky doesn’t have a bookmark function yet, I thought we needed a dedicated space to store all those working papers often shared here.

Our article on the lasting impact of rebel governance on post-conflict state and citizens' perceptions of state institutions now has page numbers and is open-access in Comparative Political Studies.

Check out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Scholars/practitioners of activist + insurgent movements: Have you generated a collection that you want to be accessible to others longterm? The Non-State Archive @mershoncenter.bsky.social @ohiostate.bsky.social provides $ to support organizing collections + accepts deposits. 28 Feb grant deadline.

Ex-rebels govern almost a quarter of sub-Saharan Africa today. How does war affect these countries' long-run political development, and what explains their rebel regimes' longevity? The paper explores the role of coercion in rebel governance: post-war governance draws from wartime strategies, which helps to explain (1) the continued use of organized coercion in post-war politics when faced with challenges to ruling party dominance, and (2) where such coercion is most effectively employed. I examine Zimbabwe where the anti-colonial rebel party has remained in power since 1980. I rely on archival data to qualitatively trace mechanisms, map pre-war to current-day administrative divisions, and code a measure of wartime governance. I combine these data with Afrobarometer surveys to demonstrate long-run subnational variation in coercive political control. Findings deepen our understanding of war’s effects on peacetime politics and provide one explanation for infrequent political turnovers

🥳🚨 Excited to share my paper, "Coercive Legacies: From Rebel Governance to Authoritarian Control," cond. accepted at @thejop.bsky.social (paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)
I ask:❓How does rebel governance affect political development when rebel parties win power? #polisky 🧵 1/4

Abstract for the article "Fiscal Legibility and State Development: Theory and Evidence from Colonial Mexico".

What drives political centralization and state development?
 
In a new article accepted in the AJPS, Emily Sellars and I focus on the role of fiscal legibility: the ability of central authorities to observe conditions in the periphery.
 
A short polisky summary: 1/

Yo, JMCs

I have an idea for how to share new research while social media fragments..

In Nov/ Dec, I'll do weekly Substacks on new JMPs on gender.

If you'd like me to discuss your JMP, do share.

This would only be a nice, supportive discussion. 😊

draliceevans.substack.com

just used typst for the first time (for a peer review I had to submit as PDF) and it was ten trillion times easier to work with than LaTeX, 11/10 would recommend

And it works with pandoc/Quarto so you don't even need to learn its special syntax!

Reservation Dogs, the Americans for more spy shenanigans

PSJMinfo

Dept. of Politics at University of York hiring 2 lecturer positions (assistant prof.) and 1 Senior Lecturer (associate prof.).

QT with your favourite book as a kid

Such a great, imaginative series! I loved reading them as a kid.

Correct link for 2023 syllabus of the grad seminar "Qualitative Methods and Research Design" taught by @carsonaust.bsky.social and me polisky:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p3t3r...

Plus Ahsoka’s mysterious trip to rainbow road, sidewalk edition.

Junior Scholars in International Security's (JSISE) call for proposals for Fall 2024 is open! Are you a junior scholar studying topics in international security? We have a space for you to receive feedback!

🗓 Deadline: September 25, 10 pm EST.
📎 Info on our website: sites.google.com/view/jsise-w...

Hi @profmusgrave.bsky.social please add me to polisky