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Nicholas Sambanis

Nicholas Sambanis

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Political Science

D-Index
39
Citations
22199
World Ranking
514
National Ranking
285

Overview

Nicholas Sambanis is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and focuses primarily on social sciences, with a significant body of work in sociology and political science. Their contributions span multiple subfields, including political science and international relations, gender studies, demography, and language and linguistics.

Their research engages extensively with themes related to political conflict and governance, culture, economy and development studies, social and intergroup psychology, migration, refugees and integration, gender politics and representation, names, identity and discrimination research, as well as linguistics, language diversity, and identity.

Nicholas Sambanis has published several papers in prominent academic venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants (2021) in the American Journal of Political Science
  • Forecasting Civil Wars: Theory and Structure in an Age of "Big Data" and Machine Learning (2020) in the Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • Political Exclusion, Lost Autonomy, and Escalating Conflict over Self-Determination (2020) in International Organization
  • External Intervention, Identity, and Civil War (2020) in Comparative Political Studies
  • Stopping the Violence but Blocking the Peace: Dilemmas of Foreign-Imposed Nation Building After Ethnic War (2021) in International Organization

The scientist's scholarly collaboration includes frequent coauthors such as Donghyun Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner, Micha Germann, Amber Lee, and Robert Blair.

Nicholas Sambanis has contributed to several publication venues with the highest number of works appearing in:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Organization
  • Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • Comparative Political Studies

They have also authored a book titled Native Bias, published by Princeton University Press in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy

    Paul Collier;V. L. Elliott;Håvard Hegre;Anke Hoeffler

  • Making War and Building Peace

    Michael W. Doyle;Nicholas Sambanis

  • International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis

    Michael W. Doyle;Nicholas Sambanis

  • Making War and Building Peace: United Nations Peace Operations

    Michael W. Doyle;Nicholas Sambanis

  • Sensitivity Analysis of Empirical Results on Civil War Onset

    Håvard Hegre;Nicholas Sambanis

  • Do Ethnic and Nonethnic Civil Wars Have the Same Causes?: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry (Part 1)

    Nicholas Sambanis

  • What Is Civil War? Conceptual and Empirical Complexities of an Operational Definition

    Nicholas Sambanis

  • How Much War Will we see?: Explaining the Prevalence of Civil War

    Ibrahim Elbadawi;Nicholas Sambanis

  • Why are there so many civil wars in Africa? Understanding and preventing violent conflict

    Ibrahim Elbadawi;Nicholas Sambanis

  • A Review of Recent Advances and Future Directions in the Quantitative Literature on Civil War

    Nicholas Sambanis

  • Ethnic partition as a solution to ethnic war - an empirical critique of the theoretical literature

    Nicholas Sambanis

  • Understanding Civil War: A New Agenda

    Paul Collier;Nicholas Sambanis

  • Using Case Studies to Expand Economic Models of Civil War

    Nicholas Sambanis

  • Social Identification and Ethnic Conflict

    Nicholas Sambanis;Moses Shayo

  • Understanding civil war : evidence and analysis

    Paul Collier;Nicholas Sambanis

  • Policies for building post-conflict peace

    Betty Bigombe;Paul Collier;Nicholas Sambanis

  • Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis, Volume 1. Africa

    Paul Collier;Nicholas Sambanis

  • Rebel—Military Integration and Civil War Termination

    Katherine Glassmyer;Nicholas Sambanis

  • What's in a Line? Is Partition a Solution to Civil War?

    Nicholas Sambanis;Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl

  • Explaining the Demand for Sovereignty

    Branko Milanovic;Branko Milanovic;Nicholas Sambanis

  • Short- and Long-Term Effects of United Nations Peace Operations

    Nicholas Sambanis

  • Nation-Building through War

    Nicholas Sambanis;Stergios Skaperdas;William C. Wohlforth

  • How to Think About Social Identity

    Michael Kalin;Nicholas Sambanis

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Collier
Paul Collier University of Oxford
Michael W. Doyle
Michael W. Doyle Columbia University
William C. Wohlforth
William C. Wohlforth Dartmouth College
Stergios Skaperdas
Stergios Skaperdas University of California, Irvine
Branko Milanovic
Branko Milanovic City University of New York
Håvard Hegre
Håvard Hegre Uppsala University
Anke Hoeffler
Anke Hoeffler University of Konstanz
Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel
Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel Universidad del Desarrollo
Deon Filmer
Deon Filmer World Bank

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