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Lecturer in Quant Politics @uniyorkpolitics. Peace & conflict studies, dissent & repression, civil-military rel, prediction and causal inference. And hiking.
Feb 11, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
New article out! 🎉

➡️ Does #CivilResistance work?

A lot of research looks at this question, with the pioneering book Why Civil Resistance Works leading the way. WCRW is of unparalleled depth and comparative scope, and has been the chief reference for over a decade. 1/4 Image Some argue that WCRW's statistical findings suffer from incomplete data, but none checked whether this concern would actually infringe on the results. I discuss and simulate the role of missingness in WCRW, and find a substantial lack of robustness. 2/4 Image