Ethnonationalist Triads: Assessing the Influence of Kin Groups on Civil Wars (2009)
Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
World Politics - Volume 61, Number 3, July 2009
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
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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...
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...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Colorado, 1999.
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...
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...