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Michael Greig
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I am a professor of political science at the University of North Texas. When I'm not walking my dogs or following the Florida Gators, I spend my time studying conflict and conflict management in the international system. #Polisci
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I teach #politicalscience #polsci #polisci, data science, and public policy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
My research focuses on the causes of armed conflict and its consequences for civilians, and uses methods including survey and lab-in-the-field experiments, new observational datasets, and geospatial data
@ProfLupton Essentially, we conclude that while govts see anti-civilian violence as a tool to deter rebels & punish civilians, govt forces use information from civil war fighting to evaluate the risks of that violence against civilians.
@ProfLupton Govt killing of civilians is jointly connected to where fighting with rebels is occurring and the social characteristics of the location. Govts target civilians in locations where there are politically excluded groups and low levels of rebel fighting. The effect reverses in those same locations when rebel fighting increases in those places.
@ProfLupton I’m really excited about a paper that I’m working on with my co-author, Eric Keels, exploring how rebel battlefield gains in civil wars shape both where and when governments target civilians with violence.
One of the most sobering things about tomorrow's midterms is that it feels like the probability of violence linked to the election is more predictable than the outcome of the elections themselves.
That's not good.
As someone new to Mastodon, Debirdify is a really helpful place to get started in reconstructing some of the folks I followed on Twitter.