In a new paper, @royaizadi.bsky.social and I show that military involvement in the economy lowers the risk of mutinies. Military businesses lead to rent-seeking among the rank-and-file, and soldiers are loathe to risk access to private goodies.

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Exactly how many children have to starve to death because Fox & Friends hate gay people? 10,000? 2 million? 8? More if they're African?

colonial states are always occupying powers.

Does infrastructure always strengthen the state?

It's messy! At the @thejop.bsky.social, I show how railway expansion upended conditions of social control in unexpected ways, and find people were more likely to evade the draft in railway districts.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

New article with @pruett.bsky.social @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social + Freeman on a violence prevention program in the 2017 Liberian election. We find the main driver of attitudinal changes among key actors was the experience of a peaceful election
polisky afripolsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@profmusgrave.bsky.social Hi! Can you add me to polisky?