Using geo-referenced terror events and ethnicity information, this article seeks to explore if and how elections contribute to violence in Iraq. Analyzing the December 2005 and March 2010 parliamentary elections and the January 2009 governorate elections, I assess whether partisan and/or ethnic...

Recent literature has shown that crosscutting social cleavages reduce the likelihood of civil war. This article argues that the same logic does not apply to lower-scale group violence such as riots, which differ in such a way that crosscutting social cleavages should often have the opposite...

Has affirmative action policy in India reduced inter-caste discrimination? Using an experiment in which we measure actual discrimination, we answer this question using a sample of 350 participants from Tamil Nadu, India. We find that social mobility stemming from affirmative action has led to...