Friends, 35 yrs ago (May 6, 85), I was part a major student uprising, a foundational moment for democracy in Benin and West Africa. Would like to share with you a pic and Ch 7 of my book on the event and its aftermath. Intense. drive.google.com/open?id=1xKZNt… drive.google.com/open?id=1ycQIq…

WGAPE Rapid Research Grants to support junior African researchers (for projects that can be executed rapidly using secondary data, or that use primary data collected in accordance with restrictions on in-person contact (e.g., phone surveys). berkeley.app.box.com/v/wgape-rapid-…

Thrilled to see this paper in early view at AJPS! How do political connections and contracts affect everyday commerce in uncertain trading environments? I created a business in Senegal to find out.

Just published with Abhit Bhandari and John Marshall! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

Excited to see my experiment on social networks and cooperation with @atwellpaul published online at AJPS! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj… Paul has a great thread below summarizing our findings:

Just accepted International Studies Quarterly!! Rick McAlexander & I go beyond the repression vs. concession dichotomy to argue that weak states may instead disengage. Evidence from colonial #Africa. Thank you for comments/discussions to those tagged & others! Paper: tinyurl.com/wy46cd3t

New paper out now at AJPS. Why are some households more indebted than others? I show that the structure of social policies and financial markets shapes patterns of indebtedness across countries. ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

🚨🚨🚨 My paper w. Andrew Shaver is out American Political Science Review! #polisciresearch Does hosting refugees increase conflict & violence? No! Using new data on where refugees are located, we find no effects & in some cases, conflict reduction. @UBCpolisci CIFAR Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) womenalsoknowstuff

Hey, fellow political scientists. Come work with me. Temple University just announced two tenure-track, Assistant-level positions. 1)Quantitative American apply.interfolio.com/95415 APSA Job # 9423 and 2) American Politics and Political Theory apply.interfolio.com/95434 APSA Job # 9425

What motivates firms to do business when enforcement is uncertain? I conducted a survey and conjoint experiment with nearly 2400 Senegalese formal and informal firms to find out. Online now at CPS: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

🚨 Job alert 🚨. We're hiring a 2-year postdoc in Business & Government to work on the project “Tycoon Candidates: Why Wealthy Business Candidates Get Elected for Office and How it Matters” at EGB Copenhagen Business School. cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa-c…

Come to Copenhagen and work with me and David Fortunato 🆓 on our DK Frie Forsk.fond funded project on legislative capacity. We are hiring for a 2 year postdoc: research only, no teaching. Salary is very good, colleagues and city are great. Ad is here: cbs.dk/en/about-cbs/j… 1/2

🚨Job alert🚨 Vanderbilt Asian Studies is hiring a TT Assistant Professor of Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies, specifically looking for social scientists: apply.interfolio.com/154998