🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 When do armed groups capture democratic elections, and when do they fail to do so? In a new study, @andresuribe.bsky.social (@uwmadison.bsky.social) investigates how local party competition can shape the effectiveness of coercion during Colombia’s 2002 Senate elections.

My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

🚨🚨🚨Announcing a special issue on “Political Violence in Democracies” published by @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social and edited by @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, U Daxecker, and me. In this very long 🧵, I will introduce the special issue with its 14 articles. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Criminal #Governance in #Latin #America: Prevalence and Correlates By @andresuribe.bsky.social, Benjamin Lessing, Noah Schouela & Elayne Stecher doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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.

Really happy that this paper is out! As @sebastianvanbaalen.se notes, we hope it has something interesting to say about trajectories of rebel governance, and more broadly about the nature of political development and state formation during war.