ABSTRACT: What accounts for the creation, design, and outputs of quasi-judicial institutions in autocracies? Prior research demonstrates that autocrats co-opt electoral, legislative, judicial to curtail opponents’ power curry international patrons’ favor. However, scholarship on co-optation neglects mechanisms, such as truth commissions, can be useful arranging a political narrative bolsters leader’s image while undermining his rivals. In this article, we formalize concept autocratic...

Research indicates that increasing diversity in doctoral programs can positively affect students’ academic success. However, little research examines responses to female scholars’ representation. The two studies presented here examine how exposure role models shapes attitudes toward their own success (i.e. self-efficacy). Such are critical because they predict student retention rates. In our first study, we randomly exposed 297 Ph.D. students one discipline either a gender-diverse 30%...

Why do criminal actors publicly display threatening messages? Studies of organized crime emphasize that rely on clandestine networks influence. Subtle or coded threats are an effective means extending influence, but publicizing these appears to undermine their chief advantage. We argue publicized broadcast imagined order, delineating who has a place in society under control, and does not. To demonstrate this argument, we construct “grammar threat” use analyze public by four actors: two...

Activists and NGOs have long accused extractive companies state security forces of colluding to suppress opposition projects, often via means violence, sabotage, or repression around the world. Evidence this practice, however, is harder come by. This article investigates these linkages directly, using original data contracts signed between various branches Colombian armed judiciary bodies with issues security. In its essence, allow private contract out sectors government protect...

Abstract A substantial amount of scholarly work has been conducted on considerations (or lack thereof) gender in the context peace negotiations. While gender-specific concerns, particularly those focused women’s empowerment, are now emphasized language international and national organizations involved peacebuilding (e.g., UN Security Council Resolution 1325), many times this is just “talk.” Often, on-the-ground practice policy does not reflect lived experiences women post-accord or...

ABSTRACT Most research on diversity within political methodology focuses gender while overlooking racial and ethnic gaps. Our study investigates how race/ethnicity relate to science PhD students’ methodological self-efficacy, as well their general academic self-efficacy. By analyzing a survey of 300 students from the top 50 US-based programs, we find that race ethnicity correlate with quantitative self-efficacy: identifying Black/African American Middle Eastern/North African express lower...

Do legacies of politically motivated violence influence future or current electoral behaviour? How so? This article considers the question impact on voter behaviour, specifically elections that centred issues peace in contexts long-running civil conflict. study theorises ways which decades violence, and continued unevenly distributed during elections, impacts behaviour. explores whether exposure to makes voters more less conciliatory their political preferences as expressed through...

Why do some indigenous social movements integrate into political institutions, i.e., parties, and not? This study compares the impact that have had on existing institutions in Peru Guatemala, theorizing about effects framing experiential commensurability can success of a movement marginalized group transitioning party. That is to say, case Indigenous which expressly signaled their interest participating mainstream what factors contribute making gains representation or legislative change?...

In contemporary international politics, states face numerous challenges to their sovereignty, especially in the realm of human rights. We argue that rather than simply fight back when sovereignty is challenged, sometimes instrumentalize pursuit own domestic and political agendas. identify two key ways governments frame use these pursuits, what we call negotiation legitimation strategies, outline conditions under which may choose employ strategies. order evaluate our argument, present a case...

Abstract The intersection of conflict research and ethics is already a complex fraught one, particularly in exchanges between researchers from the Global North researched communities South. There are many examples (and years) exploitation, fraud, violence these exchanges, more recent scholarship on fieldwork has established new norms reciprocal exchange rather than exploitation relationships. However, outbreak COVID-19 pandemic, asymmetric access to health care, global vaccine inequality...

Marcos S. Scauso. Intersectional Decoloniality: Reimagining International Relations and the Problem of Difference. New York: Routledge, 2020. 256 pp., $128 hardback (ISBN: 978-0367369552). In Difference, Scauso analyzes four distinct discourses that deal with problem difference: colonial, anticolonial, poststructuralist, intersectional decoloniality. He places these disparate—and often directly opposed—discourses in conversation one another to answer his primary theoretical question: how is...