Excited to see this new article out with
@leahchristiani
in
@Res_Pol
!
Inspired by cases like Eric Adams in NYC, we look at how tough-on-crime candidates’ identities (race + gender) impact their favorability among progressive voters.
Very happy to share that I will be joining
@TheLBJSchool
@UTAustin
starting this summer. Following a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow, I will begin as an Assistant Professor at the LBJ School and a member of the faculty
@llilasbenson
. So grateful for this opportunity. Hook 'em! 🤘🏼
With the 2024-25 job market season approaching,
@emilyommundsen
and I put together a guide to help poli sci PhD candidates navigate the often uncertain/confusing landscape.
This is not an authoritative guide, but we hope it can be a useful resource!
🔎🚨 Search for Jr Conflict & Violence Scholars📚🔎
Are you a Jr scholar researching violence/conflict in the US/Canada, Asia, Africa, or Europe?
@anappellegrino
and I are creating a new jr series and are looking for 1-2 more jr scholars to help coordinate!
All done! Very weird how six years has passed, both very fast and slow.
Thankful for my committee - Jonathan Hartlyn, Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo, Santiago Olivella,
@o_garcia_ponce
, & Evelyne Huber (not pictured). Such a supportive group. I am lucky to have had them.
Do progressive citizens support punitive politicians? If so, under what circumstances?
Check out my new article in
@cps_journal
for the full answer, but I’ll give a preview here. A 🧵
👋I am on the job market!
For exs of my work - related to both behavior and institutions w/r/t pub security in Lat Am - check out my research page. My work uses survey experiments, text analysis, + fieldwork and I have taught methods + CP at
@uncpolisci
In her dissertation,
@IsabelLaterzo
examines how political actors conceptualize, propose, and pursue public security agendas. She leverages an original corpus of campaign proposals, admin data, and > 100 expert interviews conducted via 7 months of fieldwork in Brazil.
#PSJMInfo
Excited to share my first peer-reviewed (and single-authored!) article examining political engagement following victimization in Brazil. Thank you to the
@RevistaLOP
team and to my advisors and colleagues for the assistance in getting this out there!
The Violence, Instability, and Peace Workshop welcomes submissions for our Spring '24 series!
Do you have a paper or research design on a related topic that you want to workshop?
We'd love to hear from you! Deadline Jan 4. More details 👇 and here:
A chapter from my dissertation - “Typology of Political Positions on Public Security: Evidence from Brazil” - has won the Pi Sigma Alpha – Malcolm Jewell Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper presented at
@SPSAnews
! I’m very grateful for the committee’s consideration.
So pleased and honored to have been selected to receive the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant. Very grateful to my committee for their support! Also... third time's a charm :) Rejected twice for a Fulbright before so persistence is, apparently, key.
Today is election day in Brazil 🇧🇷
Public security is a key issue, & the # of law enforcement candidates is 27% higher than in ‘18
In today’s
@monkeycageblog
I discuss how cands have campaigned on pub sec and what it could mean
Honored to be selected by
@hfg
as an Emerging Scholar.
The generous support will help me make significant progress on my dissertation and 📚 project, which explores…
We are pleased to announce the 2023 HFG Emerging Scholars.
These nine doctoral candidates are working to advance knowledge of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence around the world.
➡️
#EmergingScholarsHFG
Are punitive preferences affected by experiences and perceptions of crime?
@IsabelLaterzo
employs a conjoint experiment in Argentina and Brazil to show the extent to which ideological preferences can be moderated.
Now that it’s May, I can say I will be moving to Brazil this month (!!) for my field research. Excited to be doing research stays at
@FGV
, UFBA, and
@ufmg
. Will be working on my diss on public security and how gubernatorial candidates highlight this issue in their platforms.
We are delighted to announce the winners of our section's best paper prize: Claire Dunn and
@IsabelLaterzo
for "State-level Citizen Response to COVID-19 Containment Measures in Brazil and Mexico"!
Presenting work from my diss/book project at
#POLMETH40
today!
I analyze an original dataset of pub sec campaign proposals in Brazil using keyATM.
Key finding: as gubernatorial cands are more allied with police, they ⬆️ focus on pro-police reform, and ⬇️ focus on human rights
Excited to share my article with Claire Dunn "State-level Citizen Response to COVID-19 Containment Measures in Brazil and Mexico" published in the Journal of Politics in Latin America!
The Violence, Instability and Peace (VIP) workshop is a virtual forum for scholars studying conflict, protest, crime, peace, and related topics to receive feedback on research-in-progress. Org by
@anappellegrino
@mpbroache
@AGodefroidt
@neerajprsd
& myself
💥The
#VIPWorkshop
is kicking off the semester with a stellar group next week (9/21)!💥
Join us (virtually) to discuss work by
@SuleYaylac
(joint w Chris Price) and
@nihad_aboud
To access the papers (we hope you read in advance!) visit:
Many Congratulations! to our graduate student Isabel Laterzo
@IsabelLaterzo
on winning the James W. Prothro Award for Best Paper at our dept. annual end of year awards ceremony last night. We are so proud of you Izzy!
Wondering why partisanship in Chile declined from 80 to 20% in the past few decades? Well, my incredible colleague (and friend) Nicolás de la Cerda
@n_delacerda
has the answer for you! Check it out:
New in the
@monkeycageblog
today - my work w Claire Dunn examines the role of Bolsonaro and state governors in influencing compliance w/ COVID-19 public health orders. We discuss this in light of the recent Senate panel report.
Following up on my article from
@monkeycageblog
– yesterday Brazil elected 26 law and order branded candidates to the Chamber of Deputies (those using law and order names – colonel, sergeant, captain, etc.). SP alone elected 5. That is up from 19 elected in '18 – a 37% increase.
Think you'll be up a 6am PST/9am EST tomorrow (Sunday)? However unlikely, if you are, check out the APSA panel (Zoom) "Violent Democracy in the Global South: Evidence from Mexico." Presenting work w/
@o_garcia_ponce
and will be joined by other great panelists/discussants!
Excited to share our new paper in the Journal of Criminal Justice. W/ a survey of ~3k young Mexicans + 7 focus groups, we examine how young adults attribute responsibility for the crimes of their peers
@o_garcia_ponce
@elisalafan
@vbronsoler
+ S. Kibriya
Tchau, Brasil. I leave with you my one last attempt to convince an Uber driver that 1) urnas elêtronicas are great and 2) Lula did, in fact, win. Beijos.
Attending
#PolMeth2022
? Let's chat at my virtual poster today! I look at how public security is featured in political campaigns in Brazil, including some prelim. findings from 2022 gubernatorial campaigns
TOMORROW @ 11am EST
VIP's first workshop, featuring two papers by
@angietorresbel
on VAW and
@blairwelsh_
on hostage taking. Don't miss it! Sign up to attend here:
And sign up to be on our email list here:
Please consider submitting your work to the VIP Workshop! Or want to be a discussant? We'd love to hear from you too.
We are a feedback-oriented forum interested in work across subfields and disciplines. We're excited about our fall sessions, and hope to see you there!
🥳🚨 CALL FOR PROPOSALS 🥳🚨
Do you have a cool paper or research design on violence, instability and peace related research you want to workshop?
We're accepting proposals for VIP's Fall 2023 edition.
Send your abstracts here until August 28th:
🔎 How does childhood exposure to organized criminal violence affect youth political attitudes?
A new paper by
@o_garcia_ponce
and
@IsabelLaterzo
shows a decrease in trust by up to 20%. More on the implications for the country's young
#democracy
at
As much as I have loved my experience at
@UNC
, we make < a living wage and those in our building (shared with history and sociology) have been drinking lead (one fountain registered at 402ppb, when acceptable limit is 15ppb) for the past 4 years. This is truly unacceptable.
15ppb is currently the accepted safe limit for lead in drinking water.
@UNC
just notified us that the water fountain in
@UNChistory
registered 402ppb!!
schools are supposed to be places of learning for students, not where they are actively poisoned!!
First time attending (& participating) in
@REPAL_LatAm
- what an awesome set of presentations. If you're attending and interested in youth crime in Mexico and blame attribution, come check out my work w/
@o_garcia_ponce
tomorrow (Fri.)! Room B, 2pm
@RogueChieftan
I see your point here and it’s definitely something to consider, but also this would then require the few females in those male-heavy departments to be responsible for significantly more letters.
@MorganLKaplan
I research the political behavior of crime victims and residents of insecure neighborhoods, with a particular interest in why otherwise progressive individuals vote for tough-on-crime candidates (in Lat Am). I also work on estimating crime underreporting.
My boyfriend just texted me "I hope you get some good R&R this week" and I thought "me too!" but our interpretations of that sentence are wildly different.
💥The
#VIPWorkshop
is kicking off the semester with 2 great papers next week (2/15)💥
Join us (via Zoom) to discuss work by Kirssa Ryckman and
@CarlyMillerd
!
To access the papers (we hope you read in advance!) and register to join us, visit our website:
Thank you to
@EGAPTweets
for covering our work! Check out the below post for more info on blame attribution patterns among youths in Mexico. We also discuss how this can shed light on youths’ own self rationalization for engaging in crime.
*NEW*
#PriorityThemeSpotlight
EGAPer
@o_garcia_ponce
and
@IsabelLaterzo
spoke to us about their recent paper on who young people in Mexico ascribe blame to when a peer commits a crime. Do they blame the perpetrator(s) or society at large? Read more:
Particularly looking to expand outside of our current network and include organizing scholars outside of violence/conflict in Lat Am! DM if interested in helping or retweet and tag, if you know someone who might fit this description.
My 80ish year old grandfather gets the vaccine today. Even though it won't completely protect him from his surgery next week, I'm so happy for him and relieved he will be more protected in the coming months!!!! Happy almost 2021.
⚡️The VIP Workshop's Spring 2023 schedule has dropped!! ⚡️
Check it out on our website:
1st session coming up on Feb 9 w/ work by
@andresdu
+
@a___junqueira
, sign up here:
There seems to be a tendency to type ZOOM vs. just Zoom. Why? This makes me feel like I am about to attend a very chaotic video conference. Maybe where we yell about POLITICS and STATISTICS. I don't want that.
We’d like to start this fall, with 2-3 virtual meetings to create a new space for jr violence scholars (phd cands, postdocs, asst profs, etc) to present ongoing work. Other ideas to support jr. scholars in the same vein are more than welcome.
I remember when I worked in the *real world* I had days for when I was sick that I could actually take OFF. Now when I’m sick I have to do my work and not feel well AND I have less money (*none) to pity buy myself things online. But also I don't hate my soul now, so there's that.
Posted to
@LulaOficial
’s Instagram today.
Never thought I’d see
#2
…
“Lula does not have a pact and has never spoken to the devil”
Hope this clarifies things! 😈
FDOC in the Covid era: reminding students to mute themselves and being ignored (my god), driving around the entire Triangle looking for an office chair after realizing my back will not survive this...and rage tweeting from the staples parking lot.
Our section is also excited to award an honorable mention to
@verohurtado_
and
@paolososa
for "Territorial Unevenness and Cash Transfers: The Implementation of Bono COVID-19 in Peru". Congratulations!
An online survey launch in two countries and two languages, a bayes midterm, grant application, and sick dog (...child) in one week. Plus normal class prep and needing to find time to, you know, eat. This is one for the books.
We will be hosting our second
#VIPWorkshop
on March 9! Register to attend here:
This session's papers focus on violence against politicians in the US 🇺🇸 and Tunisia 🇹🇳
More info below 👇
Please consider submitting your work to the VIP Workshop! Or want to be a discussant? We'd love to hear from you too.
We are a feedback-oriented forum interested in work across subfields and disciplines. We're excited about our fall sessions, and hope to see you there!
The feeling of relief after re-submitting a paper lasts about 2 seconds until the realization of everything else you need to do (and have been avoiding) comes crashing (very hard) down onto you. I'm fine.
``We show that increasing incapacitation would increase both homicides and cartel members. Conversely, reducing recruitment could substantially curtail violence and lower cartel size"
Incapacitation = police incarcerate or arrest members
Mexican cartels have 175,000 members, making them the 5th largest employer in the country.
Here is our new paper in
@ScienceMagazine
, where
@CampedelliGian
,
@ahope71
and I analyse how cartels lose hundreds of members but compensate by recruiting people.
⚡️The VIP Workshop's Spring 2023 schedule has dropped!! ⚡️
Check it out on our website:
1st session coming up on Feb 9 w/ work by
@andresdu
+
@a___junqueira
, sign up here:
The Violence, Instability, and Peace Workshop was the absolute best workshop I have ever participated in! A big thank you to the organizers, my wonderful discussant
@jlshenk11
, and participants for their kind and invaluable feedback!
Thrilled to welcome new faculty - Joseph Maguire, Anna Gunderson, Herschel Thomas, Emily Bhandari, Evan Smith, Isabel Laterzo - to the LBJ School! Their expertise will drive impactful research and enrich our academic community. Exciting times ahead!
The Violence, Instability, and Peace Workshop welcomes submissions for our Spring '24 series!
Do you have a paper or research design on a related topic that you want to workshop?
We'd love to hear from you! Deadline Jan 4. More details 👇 and here:
Ten
@UNC_GradSchool
students will take the virtual stage during Wednesday night's Three Minute Thesis competition.
Tune in to hear these Tar Heel finalists from units across campus explain their research in only three minutes ⌛
#UNC
|
#UNCResearchWeek
In addition to our own experiences this past year, it builds on a bunch of other resources we referenced and found useful, which we include at the bottom. Thanks to all those who have shared their insights and advice along the way!
This article started as a term paper in
@rahsaanmax
's class. Thank you to Rahsaan, members of the seminar,
@KMMcKiernan
,
@AmandaAzizPS
, Santiago Olivella, Jonathan Hartlyn, and many others for feedback and edits throughout the process
Thrilled that the final paper of my dissertation is now open access at
@ElectoralStdies
. In the article, I argue that party brands structure the efficacy of blurred appeal strategies based on how much a strategy signals potential brand deviation.
This piece explores what many have explored before me - are crime victims more or less engaged in politics? However, I leverage the Two-City, Six-Wave Panel Survey in Brazil and use a DID framework to test the causal nature of this relationship.
This is a critical issue for candidates – both conservs and progressives. My research shows that perceptions of insecurity + belief that crime is driven by illicit groups ⬆️ support for punitive cands - this affects progs more strongly than conservs
The deadline to apply to present at the VIP (Violence, Instability, and Peace) workshop is next week - Sept 21 at 5pm EST! We hope to see your proposal.
The Violence, Instability and Peace (VIP) workshop is a virtual forum for scholars studying conflict, protest, crime, peace, and related topics to receive feedback on research-in-progress. Org by
@anappellegrino
@mpbroache
@AGodefroidt
@neerajprsd
& myself
This chapter is part of my larger dissertation-based book project: From Campaigns to Policy: Politicians, Police, and Citizen Insecurity in Latin America. Looking forward to continuing this work and moving it forward!
@CiaoSamin
Another rec for Dr. Amy Sentementes at Penn State. She has so much experience in survey research. She also has previous experience in food writing for a popular audience.
@nessnavarro
I got my dog my 1st yr, and it was a great decision. A lot of work at first since he had a rough past, but you might not have that with a cat! My mom takes him when I’m gone, so that factored into the decision. He’s a great outdoor reading partner :)
So excited to see this out! Working for Bill Ascher was my first exposure to political science research. Always grateful for his continued guidance and thankful to be a part the long list of
@CMCnews
RAs he worked with.