Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

The developmental dynamics of terrorist organizations (2009)

Clauset, Aaron, Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede

Traditional studies of terrorist group behavior focus on questions of political motivation, strategic choices, organizational structure, and material support, but say little about the basic laws that...

Replication data for: Diffusion and the International Context of Democratization (2009)

Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Michael D. Ward

Citation: Kristian Skrede Gleditsch; Michael D. Ward, 2009, "Replication data for: Diffusion and the International Context of Democratization", hdl:1902.1/12710

Strategic Substitution and Complimentarity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict (2008)

Aaron Clauset, Lindsay Heger, Maxwell Young, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

Terrorism is one of many possible tactics to which actors may resort in political conflicts; however, previous studies of the strategic substitution within terrorism have primarily focused on shifts...

Centre for the Study of Civil War (2008)

Nathaniel Beck, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Kyle Beardsley

Although spatial econometrics is being used more frequently in political science, most applications are still based on geographic notions of distance. Here we argue that it is often more fruitful to...

On the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Events (2006)

Clauset, Aaron, Young, Maxwell, Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede

In the spirit of Richardson's original (1948) study of the statistics of deadly conflicts, we study the frequency and severity of terrorist attacks worldwide since 1968. We show that these events are...

Replication data for: Refugees and the Spread of Civil War (2006)

Idean Salehyan, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

Certain regions of the world experience more conflict than others. Previous analyses have shown that a civil war in one country significantly increases the likelihood that neighboring states will...

Location, Location, Location: An MCMC Approach to Modeling Spatial Context with Categorical Variables in the Study and Prediction of War (2000)

Michael D. Ward, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Tilmann Gneiting, Adrian Raftery, Julian Besag Data

Prior work has shown the strong presence of regional and spatial context in linkages between regime characteristics and involvement in civil and international conflict, but no adequate statistical...

Replication data for: War and Peace in Space and Time: The Role of Democratization (2000)

Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Michael D. Ward

Democratization reduces the risk of war, but uneven transitions toward democracy can increase the probability of war. Using country-level data on democratization and international war from the period...

Refugees and the Spread of Civil War

Salehyan, Idean, Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede

Certain regions of the world experience more conflict than others. Previous analyses have shown that a civil war in one country significantly increases the likelihood that neighboring states will...

Diffusion and the International Context of Democratization

Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede, Ward, Michael D.

Democracy does not evolve sui generis. The spatial clustering in democracy and transitions suggests that international factors play a prominent role in forging democracies as well as influencing...

Replication data for: Space is More than Geography: Using Spatial Econometrics in the Study of Political Economy

Nathaniel Beck, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Kyle Beardsley

Although spatial econometrics is being used more frequently in political science, most applications are still based on geographic notions of distance. Here we argue that it is often more fruitful to...

Replication data for: Spatial Regression Models

Michael D. Ward, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

This archive contains R code and replication data for examples in Michael Ward and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. 2008. Spatial Regression Models. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

RAIN, GROWTH, AND CIVIL WAR: THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCATION

Peter Sandholt Jensen, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

We re-examine the Miguel et al. (2004) study of the impact of growth on civil war, using growth in rainfall as an instrument. Miguel et al. (2004) - in our view, erroneously - include countries...