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Mexico’s “cartels” are portrayed as all-powerful, all-controlling organizations The reality is far more problematic Our latest – Jane Esberg counted the number of illegal armed groups active in the country – shows just how much so 👇 crisisgroup.org/content/crime-…

Ethan BdM and I are very excited to be chairing the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project annual meeting at Berkeley in October - please apply so that we can talk conflict!

Great Irregular Warfare Initiative piece from Crisis Group's Jane Esberg on how Mexico's kingpin strategy triggered a violent scramble for territorial control—and left Mexico's war on drugs more chaotic than ever: mwi.usma.edu/why-mexicos-ki…

"With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent."

Very happy to see our paper w/Mateo Montenegro published AEA Journals! Electoral irregularities are still common in many democracies. We designed an experiment to test if ICT-assisted citizen monitoring of elections could be effective in reducing them (1/n) aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

My first solo-authored paper(!) tells a story of: 🚔 The challenges of police reform 🚨 Reasons for optimism in the pursuit of less violent public security policies Let's dive into the complex world of public security in Rio. 🇧🇷 [Paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ff-X,6yxDKq… ]

Excited to see my paper "Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office" out in @AJPS. Unprecedented effort in transparency by Ofpra. Huge thanks to my fabulous advisors at Immigration Policy Lab and wonderful colleagues at PSPE_LSE! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Article w/Jane Esberg now out in latest issue Comparative Political Studies. Big lit says politically constrained regimes expropriate less. We show it's not just that they expropriate less but in different ways, using methods that are harder to identify as expropriation: …als-sagepub-com.ezproxy.princeton.edu/doi/full/10.11…

#OpenAccess from American Political Science Review - How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela - ow.ly/vMsh50M70W7 - Jane Esberg & Alexandra Siegel #FirstView

The Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC, Empirical Studies of Conflict Project) and the School of Economics at Universidad del Rosario (Economía URosario) will host the first ESOC Latin American Conference: “Crime, Conflict and Migration” in Bogota, on May 19 and 20 #EconTwitter (1/3)

Job post--Penn Arts & Sciences is excited to be hiring at the assistant professor level in Korean and Japanese politics. Korean politics position: apply.interfolio.com/120820 Japanese politics position: apply.interfolio.com/120916

How does exile affect activism? Using extensive Twitter data, Jane Esberg & Alexandra Siegel demonstrate that following exile, Venezuelan activists' online discourse becomes more internationally-focused and more critical of their home regime new at American Political Science Review politicalsciencenow.com/exiled-activis…

📣 Call for applications for scholars at risk in the #SocialSciences 📌 CIVICA Research & Political and Social Sciences at EUI are hosting a conference to provide a platform for at-risk scholars to present their #research. Apply by 30 April to share your experience 👉 loom.ly/0GzJQrU

Today we welcome amazing scholars working on crime and policing from a comparative perspective, who will present their work in a two-day conference here at Penn! Find the program here:

Headline says it all. Crisis Group digs into the realities, policies, and practicalities of this hot topic. With our past, Jane Esberg, and present, Alessandro Accorsi, social media experts, who are part of the Future of Conflict Program. crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-af…

Jane Esberg & Alexandra Siegel use text analysis & a two-way fixed effects design to analyze how activist rhetoric changes post-exile. They find an increase in exiled activists' support for foreign intervention & anti-regime criticisms. #APSRFirstView ow.ly/g2hQ50OCfSl

Penn is hiring! We are looking for an assistant professor in American politics, focusing on race and ethnic politics. Details at: apply.interfolio.com/129788. Please spread the word and apply! Happy to answer questions (though I email more than tweet).

#JDevStudies book review 📚 Jane Esberg [Jane Esberg] reviews "Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts" by Fiona Shen-Bayh (Fiona Shen Bayh) Read: doi.org/10.1080/002203… #MustRead

One more day to send in your nominations! APSA DemocracyAndAutocracy award for best paper presented at APSA last year. Email to @scrosenzweig Jane Esberg and me 👇 And check out the other D&A awards, also due tomorrow: apsanet.org/section35