Protests in Postwar Societies: Grievances and Contentious Collective Action in Kosovo

Disability protests: contentious politics, 1970-1999

Gender, social support, and posttraumatic stress in postwar Kosovo.

The effects of social support and traumatic experiences on mental health in conflict situations may be different by gender. The Kosovo Emergency Department Study was conducted in July and August 2001 to assess mental health 2 years after the end of the war in Kosovo. Of 306 emergency department patients (87.7% response rate), all were ethnic Albanian, 97.4% had experienced traumatic events, and...

Leadership solves collective action problems in small-scale societies.

Observation of leadership in small-scale societies offers unique insights into the evolution of human collective action and the origins of sociopolitical complexity. Using behavioural data from the Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of Bolivia and Nyangatom nomadic pastoralists of Ethiopia, we evaluate the traits of leaders and the contexts in which leadership becomes more institutional. We find...

It Is Not Only About Grievances: Emotional Dynamics in Social Media During the Brazilian Protests

In the summer of 2013, Brazil experienced a period of conflict triggered by a series of protests. While the popular press covered the events, little empirical work has investigated how first-hand reporting of the protests occurred and evolved over social media and how such exposure in turn impacted the demonstrations themselves. In this study we examine over 42 million tweets shared during the ...

Cooperation and Collective Enforcement in Networked Societies ∗

We endogenize social network formation and social interaction using a model in which players interact bilaterally and repeatedly along costly links. Cooperation is supported by the threat of collective punishment. When the society is homogeneous, the optimal network consists of many separate cliques. Introducing heterogeneity gives rise to more realistic networks, with high clustering, small di...