Research

Data Projects

Click on the links below to access Chenoweth’s active data collection projects and descriptions of those underway.

Crowd Counting Consortium – with Jeremy Pressman

Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) Data Project – with Orion A. Lewis, Jonathan Pinckney, and Christopher W. Shay (versions 1.2 and 2.1 coming Fall 2019)

Women in Resistance (WiRe) Data Project (coming August 2019)

Major Episodes of Contention Data Project (in progress) – with Sooyeon Kang

Nonviolent Action in Violent Contexts (NVAVC) Data Project – with Cullen Hendrix and Kyleanne Hunter

External Support for Nonviolent Movements Data Project (in progress) – with Maria J. Stephan

Militant Group Alliances and Rivalries (MGAR) Data Project (in progress) – with Michael Horowitz, Evan Perkoski, and Philip Potter

Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE) Data Project – with Laura Dugan

Publications

Click on the links below for direct access to Chenoweth’s publications and data archives. For more details, please click on CV or her Google Scholar page. To look at some of Chenoweth’s recent working papers, visit her page on the Social Science Research Network.

Terrorism and Non-State Political Violence

The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism, co-editor with Richard English, Andreas Gofas, and Stathis Kalyvas. (Oxford, 2019).

“The Study of Terrorism: Achievements and Challenges Ahead,” with Andreas Gofas, in Chenoweth, English, Gofas, and Kalyvas, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism, (Oxford, 2019).

The Politics of Terror, with Pauline Moore (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).

“Insurgency,” with Jonathan Pinckney, in James D. Wright, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition (Elsevier, 2015).

Political Violence, editor (Sage, 2013).

Rethinking Violence: State and Non-State Actors in Conflict, co-editor with Adria Lawrence (MIT Press, August 2010).

“War Initiation and Transnational Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?” Center for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS) Working Paper 29, McGill University, October 2009.

“What Makes Terrorists Tick?” International Security, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Spring 2009), with Nicholas Miller and Elizabeth McClellan.

  • For the extended version of our article, click here.
  • For Max Abrahms’s original article, click here.
  • For Paul Staniland’s additional comments on the exchange, click here.
  • The entire correspondence is reprinted in Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote, Jr., Sean Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller, eds., Contending with Terrorism: Roots, Strategies, and Responses (MIT Press, 2010).

“To Bribe or To Bomb? Do Corruption and Terrorism Go Together?” in Robert I. Rotberg, ed. Corruption, Global Security, and World Order (Brookings Institution Press, 2009), with Jessica C. Teets.

  • Replication data.

Strategic Nonviolent Resistance, Nonviolent Action, and Mobilization

Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2020).

“The Physics of Dissent and the Effects of Movement Momentum,” Nature Human Behaviour (forthcoming 2019), with Margherita Belgioioso.

  • Data and replication file TBD.

Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019), co-editor with Deborah Avant, Marie Berry, Rachel Epstein, Cullen Hendrix, Oliver Kaplan, and Timothy D. Sisk.

“Reform, Resistance, and Revolution,” Journal of Human Rights (forthcoming 2019).

“Introducing the Nonviolent Actions in Violent Contexts (NVAVC) Dataset,” Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming 2019), with Cullen Hendrix and Kyleanne Hunter.

“Three Common Objections to the Study of Nonviolent Resistance,” in Hank Johnston, ed. Social Movements, Nonviolent Resistance, and the State (New York: Routledge, 2019).

“Who Made the Women’s March?” in Sidney Tarrow and David S. Meyer, eds. The Resistance (Oxford University Press, July 2018), with Marie E. Berry.

“Days of Rage: Introducing the NAVCO 3.0 Dataset,” Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 55, No. 4 (July 2018), with Jonathan Pinckney and Orion A. Lewis.

Nonviolent Resistance and the Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings, ICNC Special Report (May 2018), with Evan J. Perkoski.

“Backfire in Action: Insights from Nonviolent Campaigns from 1946-2006,” in Lee Smithey and Lester Kurtz, eds. The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Social Movements (Syracuse University Press, May 2018).

“The Trump Administration’s Adoption of the Anti-Revolutionary Toolkit,” PS: Politics and Political Science, Vol. 51, No. 1 (January 2018).

“How Risky is Nonviolent Dissent? Nonviolent Uprisings and Mass Killings,” SSRN Working Paper, with Evan J. Perkoski (2017).

“State Repression and Nonviolent Resistance,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 61, No. 9 (2017), with Evan J. Perkoski and Sooyeon Kang.

Struggles from Below: Literature Review on Human Rights Struggles by Domestic Actors, DRG Working paper, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), February 21, 2017, with Tricia Olsen, Kyleanne Hunter, Pauline Moore, Jonathan Pinckney, and Heidi Reynolds-Stenson.

“Trends in Nonviolent Resistance and State Response: Is Violence Toward Civilian-Based Movements on the Rise?” Global Responsibility to Protect Vol. 9, No. 1 (January 2017).

Civil Resistance and Corporate Behavior: Mapping Trends and Assessing Impact, DRG Working Paper, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), August 12, 2016, with Tricia D. Olsen.

  • Replication data (zip file containing raw data in xls, article data in dta, replication files in do).

“Response to Fabrice Lehoucq’s ‘Does Nonviolence Work?’ ” Comparative Politics, Vol. 48, No. 4 (July 2016).

“Do Contemporaneous Armed Challenges Affect the Outcomes of Mass Nonviolent Campaigns?” Mobilization: An International Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 2015), with Kurt Schock.

  • Replication data (zip file containing data in xls and dta, replication files in smcl and do) and appendices (zip file containing coding notes, errata, and R&R memo in pdf).

“Can Structural Conditions Explain the Onset of Nonviolent Uprisings?” Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 61, No. 2, (2017), with Jay Ulfelder.

“The Art and Science of Civil Resistance,” Thammasat Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2015).

“Institutions and Political Mobilization,” in Rubén Ruiz-Rufino and Jennifer Gandhi, eds. Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions (Routledge, 2015).

“Trends in Civil Resistance and Authoritarian Responses,” in Maria J. Stephan and Mat Burrows, eds., Is Authoritarianism Staging a Comeback? (Atlantic Council, 2015).

“Collecting Data on Nonviolent Action: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward,” Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 51, No. 1 (January 2015), with Joel Day and Jonathan Pinckney.

“The Civil Rights Movement and U.S. Democracy: A Discussion of Jonathan Rieder, Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation,” Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 12, no 3 (September 2014).

“Civil Resistance: Reflections on an Idea Whose Time Has Come,” Global Governance, Vol. 20 (2014).

“Understanding Nonviolent Resistance,” Special Issue of the Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 50, No. 3 (May 2013), guest editor with Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham.

  • Read Chenoweth & Cunningham’s introduction to the special issue here.
  • Listen to the podcast publicizing the JPR Special Issue here.

“Unpacking Nonviolent Campaigns: Introducing the NAVCO 2.0 Dataset,” Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 50, No. 3 (May 2013), with Orion A. Lewis.

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, with Maria J. Stephan (Columbia University Press, August 2011).

“Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict,” International Security, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Summer 2008), with Maria J. Stephan.

State Response to Terrorism and Insurgency

“Does U.S Presidential Rhetoric Affect Asymmetric Political Violence?” Critical Studies on Terrorism (forthcoming), with Daren Fisher and Laura Dugan.

“Deterrence or Blowback? The Consequences of Canadian Counterterrorism in Afghanistan,” with Laura Dugan, in Jez Littlewood, Lorne Dawson, and Sara Thompson, eds., Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Canada (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2019).

“Introducing the Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE) Dataset,” in Michael Stohl, Scott Englund, and Richard Burchill, eds. Constructions of Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Research and Policy (University of California Press, 2017), pp. 193-207, with Laura Dugan.

“The Canadian Way of Counterterrorism: Introducing the GATE-Canada Dataset,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (May 2016), with Laura Dugan.

  • Replication data TBD.

“Government Responses to Terrorism,” with Laura Dugan, in Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan, and Erin Miller, Putting Terrorism in Context: Lessons Learned from Global Data (Routledge, July 2014).

“Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE): A Methodology that Reveals how Governments Behave toward Terrorists and their Constituencies,” with Laura Dugan, in V.S. Subrahmanian, ed., Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism, pp. 467-488 (Springer, 2013).

“Moving Beyond Deterrence: The Effectiveness of Raising the Expected Utility of Abstaining from Terrorism in Israel,” American Sociological Review, Vol. 77, No. 4 (August 2012), with Laura Dugan.

“All Terrorism is Local: Constructing Urban Coalitions for Homeland Security in the American Federal System,” Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 3 (September 2010), with Susan E. Clarke.

“The Politics of Vulnerability: Constructing Local Performance Regimes for Homeland Security,” Review of Policy Research, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 2006), with Susan E. Clarke.

“A Contested Threat: The Politics of Security Collaboration for Combating Terrorism,” in Isaiah Wilson III and James Forest, eds. Handbook of Defence Politics: International and Comparative Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2009).

“Italy and the Red Brigades: The Success of Repentance Policy in Counterterrorism,” in James Forest, ed. Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century (Westport: Praeger, 2007).

“Open Source for Counterterrorism: Facilitating Inter-Agency Communication and Open Source Intelligence,” in James Forest, ed. Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century (Westport: Praeger, 2007), with Orion A. Lewis.

“Vulnerabilities and Resilience in America’s Financial Services,” in James Forest, ed. Homeland Security: Protecting America’s Targets, Vol. 3 (Westport: Praeger, 2006).

Terrorism, Democracy, and Dissent

Terror in the Age of Dissent (book manuscript under contract with Columbia University Press).

“On Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence,” in Nils Petter Gleditsch, ed. R J. Rummel: An Assessment of His Many Contributions (Springer, 2017), pp. 107-115.

“Regime Type and Terrorist Attacks,” with Kara Kingma and Bryan Cramer, in Nancy Pinkerton, Stephen Kosslyn, and Robert Scott, eds., Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Wiley, 2015).

“Terrorism and Democracy,” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 16 (May 2013), pp. 355-378.

“Is Terrorism Still a Democratic Phenomenon?” International Relations, Vol. 8, No. 32 (Winter 2012), pp. 85-100.

“Democratic Competition and Terrorist Activity,” The Journal of Politics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 16-30.

“Democratic Pieces: Democratization and the Origins of Terrorism,” in William R. Thompson and Rafael Reuveny, eds., Coping with Terrorism: Origins, Escalation, Counter-Strategies, and Responses (Buffalo: SUNY Press, November 2010).

“The Inadvertent Effects of Democracy on Terrorist Group Emergence,” BCSIA Discussion Paper 2006-06 (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, November 2006).

“Instability and Opportunity: The Origins of Terrorism in Weak and Failed States,” in James Forest, ed. The Making of a Terrorist, Vol. 3 (Westport: Praeger, 2005).

Researching Contentious Politics, Terrorism, and Political Violence 

“On Research That ‘Matters’,” in Peter Krause and Ora Szekely, eds. Stories from the Field: An Unorthodox Guide to Fieldwork. New York: Columbia University Press (forthcoming).

“The Future is a Moving Target: Predicting Political Instability,” British Journal of Political Science (forthcoming 2019), with Drew Bowlsby, Cullen Hendrix, and Jonathan Moyer.

“A Proactive Definition of Peace,” International Studies Review, Vol. 19, No. 1 (March 2017), pp. 133-134.

“On Classifying Terrorism: A Potential Contribution of Cluster Analysis for Academics and Policymakers,” Defense and Security Analysis, Vol. 23, No. 4 (December 2007), with Elizabeth Lowham.

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