How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Abroad Shape Attitudes at Home?
Does shaming human rights violators shape attitudes at home?
Research
Thinking (about peace science) in time
In this Presidential Address, I lay out three research streams in which my findings were valid when published, but which may have been time-bound to a particular period in global history.
Guidance for unbiased predictive information for healthcare decision-making and equity (GUIDE): considerations when race may be a prognostic factor
Clinical prediction models (CPMs) are tools that compute the risk of an outcome given a set of patient characteristics and are routinely used to inform patients, guide treatment decision-making, and r
Satellite Political Movements: How Grassroots Activists Bolster Trump and Bolsonaro in the United States and Brazil
We develop the concept of the satellite political movement (SPM), a form of movement-party interaction that emerges in support of a particular political leader.
People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal
At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a once-in-a-
Legitimacy Revisited: Moral Power and Civil Disobedience
In Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World, I offer both a conceptual analysis of legitimacy, the power-liability view, and a substantive moral theory, the free group agency view.
The Democratic Necessity of Reckoning
In the years since the onset of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement—and especially since the Ferguson uprising—scholars have tried to understand how the movement has affected public life in the Unit
Rustin’s Legacy of Civil Resistance in the US
Civil resistance is a form of struggle in which unarmed civilians mobilize using a series of coordinated methods like protest, non-cooperation, and the building of alternative institutions to confront
Crafting Public Narrative to Enable Collective Action: A Pedagogy for Leadership Development
We propose a new theory of public narrative, its practice, and its pedagogy that can prepare leaders to mobilize collective action towards tackling grand challenges and responds to the call for humani
The Role of Violence in Nonviolent Resistance
Over the past two decades, there has been growing scholarly interest in nonviolent resistance—a method of conflict in which unarmed people mobilize collective protests, strikes, and boycotts in a coor
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