Selected Publications

How do states decide whether to sponsor foreign nonviolent campaigns? Leveraging new global data, we demonstrate that while liberal democracies are the most frequent sponsors, they consistently prioritize geo-political and economic stability over ideological commitments, often witholding support from movements that threaten to disrupt strategic partnerships

Is the current anti-Trump protest movement limited to liberal strongholds? Our analysis of CCC data shows that dissent has become remarkably widespread, with the typical 2025 protest occurring in a county won by President Trump in 2024. This geographic expansion into ‘Trump country’ represents a significant shift in the landscape of American political mobilization.

In this blog post, I discuss my article Swords Into Ploughshares? which explores how nonviolent resistance leads to less future state repression compared to violent resistance.

In this article, I explore how violent and nonviolent campaigns shape future state repression. I find that nonviolent campaigns lead to significantly fewer extrajudicial killings after campaign termination compared to violent campaigns.

In this article, we introduce the Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) 2.1 dataset, which adds several new variables to NAVCO 2.0 as well as significantly expanding its temporal scope. We use these data to describe seven decades of global resistance and to probe several claims garnered from existing literature.

Festive events like concerts and mass singing may help nonviolent movements attract more supporters.

In this article, we investigate individual and collective motives for participating in mass nonviolent movements. We argue that campaign leaders can solve collective action problems and recruit more participants with ’emotive events’- activities like mass singing or dancing that confer rewarding or cathartic emotions to participants who are phyiscally present.

Social media has made mass protests easier to organize — but, perhaps paradoxically, harder to resolve.

The Maoist insurgency in east India is facing a recruitment crisis and increasing numbers of fatalities and surrenders – but its decline is not inevitable.