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[Christian Davenport]
Essentially, I have engaged in two distinct types of analyses regarding political conflict, violence and peace.  

Initially (from 1992 to the present), I was interested in “macro-foundational” explanations for what was taking place - those that involve large-scale, aggregated and relatively static societal-level political-economic processes.  These are typically examined at the nation-year.  

Feeling constrained and generally unable to understand what was taking place “on the ground,” more recently (from 1998 to the present) I became interested in more “micro-foundational” explanations for political conflict - those that involve smaller-scale, disaggregated and relatively dynamic group/individual-level political-economic processes.  These are typically examined below the nation-year (e.g., by the city-week or street-day).  

The links below direct you to the relevant research projects:


Thematic:
  •     Macro-foundations
  •     Micro/Meso-foundations

Geographic:

  • Global
    • Repression, Repressive Spells, Repressive Dyads
  • The United States
    • Black Panther Party vs US government, Republic of New Africa vs US government, Riots/Rebellions, NAACP, Anti-Patriot Act Resolutions
  • Rwanda
  • India
  • Northern Ireland
  • Zimbabwe
  • Mexico
  • Dominican Republic

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