Polling Place Matters: How Voting Location Influences Election Fraud

Research on the determinants of election fraud typically focuses on conventional factors such as election monitoring, legal punishments, and voter education. This paper examines an […]

Do Military Deployments Reduce Crime? Evidence from the 2025 Washington, DC National Guard Deployment

The deployment of military personnel in response to urban crime has become increasingly salient in the United States. Yet the effectiveness and efficiency of such […]

Assessing the impact of violent conflict on attitudes toward military rule in Nigeria

Violent conflict is often assumed to undermine democratic legitimacy and increase public support for authoritarian alternatives. Yet empirical evidence remains limited, particularly in the context […]

Fear to Vote: Explosions, Salience, and Elections

Criminal groups use violence strategically to manipulate the behavior of victims and bystanders. At the same time, violence is a stimulus that causes fear, which […]

Sending peace home?! The effect of political favoritism on conflict

Bringing the model by Choi (2014) to a spatial context, we investigate and assess the link between political favoritism and internal conflict. In particular, we […]

Economic Conditions and the Rise of Anti-Democratic Extremism

This paper provides evidence that adverse economic conditions contributed to the rise of anti-democratic extremism in the United States. A state-level analysis shows that increases […]

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