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Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation by Paul Staniland
Publication · June 17, 2025
Social costs and policy preferences: Evidence from territorial strategies in Catalonia
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Research on territorial preferences in self‐determination disputes has traditionally focused on economic and identity‐related factors. However, the impact of social costs—encompassing overall societal comfort and conviviality—on specifi...
Publication · June 17, 2025
Internal drivers of self-rule referendums
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From Catalonia to Kurdistan to Scotland, referendums have increasingly become popular strategies of self-rule movements. Despite this, many referendums are considered failures by the movements (revealing a dearth of support), some are m...
Publication · June 17, 2025
Remembering the Violent Past in Ethnically Divided Societies
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Abstract How can remembrance initiatives engage the public in a collective exploration of their past when the dominant historical narratives within that public are deeply contested? How does engaging with commemorative efforts affect th...
Publication · June 17, 2025
Discounting extreme positions: party normalization and support for the far right
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When are far right parties punished for their extreme positions? We argue that the punishments of deviant position-taking are conditional on the degree to which a far right party is normalized or stigmatized in the party system. When t...
Publication · June 17, 2025
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”
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Powered by Marxist ideology, Revolutionary Socialist (RS) armed groups launched formidable challenges against incumbent regimes during the historical era of the Cold War. As both transformational and transnational actors, they were opti...
Publication · June 17, 2025
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