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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Christian Davenport is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States and focuses on research within the broader field of Social Sciences. Their work spans subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions, Gender Studies, and History.

Their main research topics cover Political Conflict and Governance, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence, Health and Conflict Studies, Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East, Corruption and Economic Development, Gender, Security, and Conflict, as well as Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography.

Frequent publication venues for Davenport include:

  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Journal of Peace Research
  • World Politics
  • Journal of Global Security Studies
  • Journal of Human Rights

Notable recent papers authored by Davenport are:

  • Tenure through Tyranny? Repression, Dissent, and Leader Removal in Africa and Latin America, 1990-2006, 2021, Journal of Global Security Studies
  • Introducing DyoRep: A database of perpetrator-victim dyads within repressive spells, 2020, Journal of Human Rights
  • Stopping state repression: An examination of spells, 2022, Journal of Peace Research

Davenport has also contributed to collaborative works with frequent coauthors such as Cyanne E. Loyle, Babak RezaeeDaryakenari, Reed M. Wood, Benjamin J. Appel, and David Armstrong.

Within their career, Davenport has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, awarded in 2018.

Best Publications

  • State Repression and Political Order

    Christian Davenport

  • Democracy and the Violation of Human Rights: A Statistical Analysis from 1976 to 1996

    Christian Davenport;David A. Armstrong

  • Multi-Dimensional Threat Perception and State Repression: An Inquiry into Why States Apply Negative Sanctions

    Christian Davenport

  • State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace

    Christian Davenport

  • Human rights and the democratic proposition

    Christian Davenport

  • State Repression and the Tyrannical Peace

    Christian Davenport

  • Repression And Mobilization

    Christian Davenport;Carol Mueller;Hank Johnston

  • Assessing the Validity of the Postmaterialism Index

    Darren W. Davis;Christian Davenport

  • Protesting While Black? The Differential Policing of American Activism, 1960 to 1990

    Christian Davenport;Sarah A. Soule;David A. Armstrong

  • Views to a Kill: Exploring the Implications of Source Selection in the Case of Guatemalan State Terror, 1977-1995

    Christian Davenport;Patrick Ball

  • Fight the Youth: Youth Bulges and State Repression

    Ragnhild Nordås;Christian Davenport

  • "Constitutional Promises" and Repressive Reality: A Cross-National Time- Series Investigation of Why Political and Civil Liberties are Suppressed

    Christian A. Davenport

  • Velvet glove, iron fist, or even hand? protest policing in the united states, 1960-1990

    Sarah Soule;Christian Davenport

  • Polity IV, 1800-1999: Comments on Munck and Verkuilen

    Monty G. Marshall;Ted Robert Gurr;Christian Davenport;Keith Jaggers

  • The Weight of the Past: Exploring Lagged Determinants of Political Repression

    Christian Davenport

  • The Promise of Democratic Pacification: An Empirical Assessment

    Christian Davenport

  • The state of state repression research since the 1990s

    Christian Davenport;Molly Inman

  • Understanding Covert Repressive Action The Case of the U.S. Government against the Republic of New Africa

    Christian Davenport

  • How Social Movements Die

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  • From ballots to bullets: an empirical assessment of how national elections influence state uses of political repression

    Christian Davenport

  • Paths to state repression : human rights violations and contentious politics

    Christian Davenport

  • EXPLORING THE IMPLICATIONS OF SOURCE SELECTION IN THE CASE OF GUATEMALAN STATE TERROR, 1977-1995

    Christian Davenport;Patrick Ball

Frequent Co-Authors

Will H. Moore
Will H. Moore Florida State University
James Petras
James Petras Binghamton University
Erik Melander
Erik Melander Uppsala University
Sarah A. Soule
Sarah A. Soule Stanford University
Rose McDermott
Rose McDermott Brown University
Ruud Koopmans
Ruud Koopmans Social Science Research Center Berlin
Lee Sigelman
Lee Sigelman George Washington University
Steven C. Poe
Steven C. Poe University of North Texas
Bert Klandermans
Bert Klandermans Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gary Alan Fine
Gary Alan Fine Northwestern University

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