Peer-Reviewed Publications
Who Tortures the Terrorists? Transnational Terrorism & Military Torture (with Justin Conrad, James Igoe Walsh, and James A. Piazza. 2014. Forthcoming at Foreign Policy Analysis.
Appendix -- Replication Files -- Post on the Monkey Cage
Divergent Incentives for Dictators: Domestic Institutions and (International Promises Not to) Torture. 2014. Journal of Conflict Resolution 58(1):34-67.
Appendix -- Replication Files -- Posts at Nate Jensen’s Blog & The Monkey Cage
Tyrants and Terrorism: Why some Autocrats are Terrorized while Others are Not (with Justin Conrad and Joseph K. Young). 2014. International Studies Quarterly 58:539-549.
Appendix -- Replication Files -- Joe Young’s Post at Political Violence @ a Glance
Torture Allegations as Events Data: Introducing the Ill-Treatment and Torture (ITT) Specific Allegation Data (with Jillienne Haglund and Will H. Moore). 2014. Journal of Peace Research 51(3):429-438.
Appendix -- Website -- Replication Files -- Chad Clay’s Post at The Quantitative Peace
Treaties, Tenure, and Torture: The Conflicting Domestic Effects of International Law (with Emily Hencken Ritter). 2013. Journal of Politics 75(2): 397-409.
Appendix -- Replication Files -- Phil Arena’s Blog Post -- Amanda Murdie’s Post 1/Post 2 at
Constrained by the Bank and the Ballot: Unearned Revenue, Democracy, and State Incentives to Repress (with Jacqueline H.R. DeMeritt). 2013. Journal of Peace Research 50(1): 105-119.
Disaggregating Torture Allegations: Introducing the Ill-Treatment and Torture (ITT) Country-Year Data (with Jillienne Haglund and Will H. Moore). 2013. International Studies Perspectives 14(2):199-220.
Website -- Replication Files -- Christian Davenport’s Mention at Political Violence @ a Glance
Constrained Concessions: Dictatorial Responses to Domestic Political Opposition. 2011. International Studies Quarterly (55): 1167-1187.
Appendix -- Replication Files -- Posts at Nate Jensen’s Blog & The Monkey Cage -- Symposium at
What Stops the Torture? (with Will H. Moore). 2010. American Journal of Political Science 54(2): 459-476.
Appendix & Replication Files -- Erica Chenoweth’s Post at Political Violence @ A Glance --
LSE EUROPP Post -- SSN Brief -- Erik Voeten’s Post at The Monkey Cage -- Article at FSU News --
Christian Davenport’s Testimony at the Helsinki Commission’s 2007 Hearing on Torture
Measuring Government Duration and Stability in Central Eastern European Democracies (with Sona N. Golder). 2010. European Journal of Political Research. 49(1): 119-150.
Data Collection Projects
Agenda Setting in the United Nations (with Nathan W. Monroe).
The National Human Rights Institute (NHRI) Data Collection Project (with Jacqueline H.R. DeMeritt and Will H. Moore).
The Ill-Treatment and Torture (ITT) Data Collection Project (with Will H. Moore).
Funded by NSF Grants #0921397 and #1123666.
Book Chapters
Unintended Consequences: The Effect of Advocacy to End Torture on Empowerment Rights Violations (with Jacqueline H.R. DeMeritt). 2014. Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression. Tracy Lightcap and James Pfiffner, eds. Palgrave MacMillan.
Work in Progress
The Conflicting Effects of International Law (Book Project with Emily Hencken Ritter).
Political Institutions, Plausible Deniability, and the the Decision to Hide Torture (with
Daniel W. Hill, Jr. and Will H. Moore).
Appendix -- Replication Files -- Quotation on Discovery News -- LSE EUROPP Post -- SSN Brief --
Will H. Moore’s Post at Political Violence @ a Glance
International Law and Mobilized Dissent Against the State (with Emily Hencken Ritter).
Appendix -- Replication Files -- Awarded MPSA 2012 Best Paper in International Relations
The Challenges of Observational Data for Understanding Strategic Domestic Conflict (with Emily Hencken Ritter).
Appendix -- Replication Files -- Christian Davenport’s Mention at Political Violence @ a Glance
Minorities, Demand for Intelligence, and American Support for Torture (with Sarah E. Croco, Brad T. Gomez, and Will H. Moore).
LSE EUROPP Post -- SSN Brief -- Will H. Moore’s Post at Political Violence @ a Glance
The Unintended Consequences of Human Rights Advocacy (with Jacqueline H.R. DeMeritt and Christopher J. Fariss).
Chad Clay’s Mention at The Quantitative Peace
Agenda Setters Don’t Vote No: The Effect of Agenda Control on Voting in the United Nations General Assembly (with Nathan W. Monroe).
Heterogeneous Democratic Institutions and Delayed Commitment to International Human Rights Law (with Sona N. Golder).
“Protecting” Human Rights: Protectionism and Human Rights Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements (with Emily Hencken Ritter).
Stopping Abuse: What Institutions Inhibit Ill-Treatment and Torture? (with Will H. Moore).
