Contentious politics

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 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, 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.

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