• ‘You can’t repeal regret’: targeting men for mobilisation in Ireland’s abortion debate 

  Hunt, Kate; Friesen, Amanda (Bristol University Press, 2021-02)

  This study explores how social movement organisations involved in the abortion debate in the Republic of Ireland attempted to appeal to men in their campaign messages before the 2018 referendum on the Eighth Amendment ...
• “Populism” versus “Popular”: A Response to Ziarek’s “Populism—A Crux or Crisis of Politics?” 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (Project Muse, 2019)

  This article discusses two main issues Ziarek highlights regarding populist social movements. The first one is the exclusionary stance populist movements take when contending for power in a democratic society. The second ...
• Socially distanced school-based nutrition program under COVID 19 in the rural Niger Delta 

  Francis, Nabie Nubari; Pegg, Scott (Elsevier, 2020)

  The Niger Delta region of Nigeria is widely recognized as a complex and contentious space for oil exploration and production. Over the past few decades, the Niger Delta has witnessed large-scale mass peaceful mobilizations ...
• The Effects of Selective and Indiscriminate Repression on the 2013 Gezi Park Nonviolent Resistance Campaign 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen; Rasler, Karen (SAGE, 2020-05-05)

  We investigate the differential effects of selective and indiscriminate repression on the rate of protest actions during the nonviolent resistance campaign in Gezi Park, Turkey, in 2013. After deriving theoretical expectations ...
• Political attitudes vary with detection of androstenone 

  Friesen, Amanda; Gruszczynski, Mike; Smith, Kevin B.; Alford, John R. (Cambridge UP, 2020)

  Building on a growing body of research suggesting that political attitudes are part of broader individual and biological orientations, we test whether the detection of the hormone androstenone is predictive of political ...
• The Higher Power of Religiosity Over Personality on Political Ideology 

  Ksiazkiewicz, Aleksander; Friesen, Amanda (Springer, 2019)

  Two streams of research, culture war and system justification, have proposed that religious orientations and personality, respectively, play critical roles in political orientations. There has been only limited work ...
• Generational Change? The Effects of Family, Age, and Time on Moral Foundations 

  Friesen, Amanda (DeGruyter, 2019)

  One way to uncover the persistent role of religion across generations is to look past traditional understandings of religious belief and denominational belonging and examine the presence of bedrock principles that could ...
• Digital Segregation: Gender, Occupation, and Access to Politics 

  Friesen, Amanda; Burge, Ryan; Britzman, Kylee (SAGE, 2019-05-26)

  In the United States, women often show less interest in politics, and under some conditions, perform worse than men on political knowledge tests. In an age where education levels have reached parity, we suggest one of the ...
• Back on track? Somaliland after its 2017 presidential election 

  Pegg, Scott; Walls, Michael (Oxford, 2018)
• Twenty Years of de facto State Studies: Progress, Problems, and Prospects 

  Pegg, Scott (Oxford, 2017-07)

  It has been almost 20 years since the publication of International Society and the De Facto State by Scott Pegg in 1998, the first book-length substantive theoretical attempt to investigate the phenomenon of de facto ...
• Does Ignorance Matter? The Relative Importance of Civic Knowledge and the Human Tendency to Engage in Motivated Reasoning 

  Dusso, Aaron; Kennedy, Sheila Suess (2015-03-02)

  It has long been understood that political knowledge in the U.S. is very low. For those who care about the quality of American democracy, this is a big problem. In attempting to find a solution, many people often blame ...
• Diverse stakeholders create collaborative, multilevel basin governance for groundwater sustainability 

  Conrad, Esther; Moran, Tara; DuPraw, Marcelle E.; Ceppos, David; Martinez, Janet; Blomquist, William (University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2018-03-13)

  The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) is introducing significant changes in the way groundwater is governed for agricultural use. It requires the formation of groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) to manage ...
• Social Movements and Social Movement Organizations: Recruitment, Ideology, and Splits 

  White, Robert W.; Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (Amsterdam University Press, 2017)
• Military Counterterrorism Measures, Civil–Military Relations, and Democracy: The Cases of Turkey and the United States 

  Satana, Nil S.; Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (Taylor and Francis, 2018)

  This study examines how military counter-terrorism (CT) measures affect the quality of democracy by altering civil-military relations (CMR) and focuses on civil-military relations as the main causal mechanism. We argue ...
• The Demobilization of Protest Campaigns 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (Oxford University Press, 2017-06)

  All protest campaigns move through cycles of escalation and de-escalation and ultimately demobilize. Some campaigns demobilize quickly as protesters reach their goals. The 2011 Egyptian uprising, when protesters left the ...
• The Gezi Park Protests and the Escalation and De-escalation of Political Contention 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  This study argues that escalation and de-escalation processes lie at the heart of protest campaigns. These processes are largely determined by the interactions between protesters and governments, as well as the timing and ...
• Moralizing to the Choir: The Moral Foundations of American Clergy 

  Djupe, Paul A.; Friesen, Amanda (Wiley, 2017)

  Objective In order to understand the role of clergy in shaping Americans’ moral worldviews, we examine whether the structure of clergy values varies in systematic ways according to contextual factors, such as disagreement ...
• Race and Right-Wing Authoritarianism: How Scoring High in Authoritarianism Does Not Necessarily Lead to Support for Right-Wing Candidates 

  Dusso, Aaron (Wiley, 2017-03)

  Objectives Authoritarianism has a long history suggesting that it is primarily a phenomenon of the right. However, I argue that this has led to scholars overlooking the potential that, in some contexts, authoritarianism ...
• From the Streets to the Mountains: Dynamics of Transition from a Protest Wave to Insurgency in Kashmir 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (2014-09)

  This study investigates the dynamics of transition from a peaceful protest wave to a violent insurgency. It examines the causal path leading to a major shift in the intensity of a protest wave and argues that the transition ...
• The Dynamics of the Demobilization of the Protest Campaign in Assam 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (2016-01-20)

  This study highlights the role that critical events play in the demobilization of protest campaigns. Social movement scholars suggest that protest campaigns demobilize as a consequence of polarization within the campaign ...

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