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2026
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Norway
2022

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Political Science

D-Index
36
Citations
11899
World Ranking
661
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Scott Gates is affiliated with the Peace Research Institute in Norway. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a focus on political science, international relations, sociology, economics, artificial intelligence, and demography. The scholar's work addresses topics related to political conflict, governance, electoral systems, political participation, culture, economy, development studies, experimental behavioral economics, populism, the COVID-19 pandemic impacts, and media influence on politics.

Frequent coauthors with whom Scott Gates has collaborated include Vanessa A. Boese, Syed Mansoob Murshed, Marianne Dahl, Mogens K. Justesen, and Carl Henrik Knutsen.

Scott Gates has published in several journals, with multiple appearances in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and International Area Studies Review. Other notable publication venues include the SSRN Electronic Journal, the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, and The Economics of Peace and Security Journal.

The following are examples of Scott Gates's recent papers:

  • Political Trust, Shocks, and Accountability: Quasi-experimental Evidence from a Rebel Attack, 2020, Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • Political Trust, Shocks, and Accountability: Quasi-experimental Evidence from a Rebel Attack, 2020, Sage Journals Data
  • Accounting for Numbers: Group Characteristics and the Choice of Violent and Nonviolent Tactics, 2021, The Economics of Peace and Security Journal
  • Populism and COVID-19: How Populist Governments (Mis)Handle the Pandemic, 2021, Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy
  • Patterns of Democracy over Space and Time, 2022, International Studies Quarterly

Best Publications

  • Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816-1992

    Håvard Hegre;Tanja Ellingsen;Scott Gates;Petter Gleditsch

  • Working, Shirking, and Sabotage: Bureaucratic Response to a Democratic Public

    John O. Brehm;Scott Gates

  • Recruitment and Allegiance The Microfoundations of Rebellion

    Scott Gates

  • The Geography of Civil War

    Halvard Buhaug;Scott Gates

  • Spatial-Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal

    S. Mansoob Murshed;Scott Gates

  • Geography, Rebel Capability, and the Duration of Civil Conflict

    Halvard Buhaug;Scott Gates;Päivi Lujala

  • Institutional Inconsistency and Political Instability: Polity Duration, 1800–2000

    Scott Gates;Håvard Hegre;Mark P. Jones;Håvard Strand

  • Development Consequences of Armed Conflict

    Scott Gates;Håvard Hegre;Håvard Mokleiv Nygård;Håvard Strand

  • Environmentalism, democracy, and pollution control

    Per G. Fredriksson;Eric Neumayer;Richard Damania;Scott Gates

  • Democracy and Peace: A More Skeptical View

    Scott Gates;Torbjørn L. Knutsen;Jonathon W. Moses

  • Evolution in Democracy-War Dynamics

    Sara McLaughlin Mitchell;Scott Gates;Håvard Hegre

  • Games, Information, and Politics: Applying Game Theoretic Models to Political Science

    Scott Gates;Brian D. Humes

  • Donut Shops and Speed Traps: Evaluating Models of Supervision on Police Behavior

    John Brehm;Scott Gates

  • African range wars: Climate, conflict, and property rights:

    Christopher K Butler;Scott Gates

  • Social Media, Recruitment, Allegiance and the Islamic State

    Scott Gates;Sukanya Podder

  • All Conflict is Local: Modeling Sub-National Variation in Civil Conflict Risk

    Siri Camilla Aas Rustad;Halvard Buhaug;Åshild Falch;Scott Gates

  • Armed conflict and post-conflict justice, 1946-2006: A dataset

    Helga Malmin Binningsbø;Cyanne E Loyle;Scott Gates;Jon Elster

  • Post-conflict justice and sustainable peace

    Scott Gates;Helga Malmin Binningsbo;Tove Grete Lie

  • Global Aid Allocation: Are Nordic Donors Different?

    Scott Gates;Anke Hoeffler

  • Soft power at home and abroad: Sport diplomacy, politics and peace-building:

    Havard Mokleiv Nygard;Havard Mokleiv Nygard;Scott Geoffrey Gates;Scott Geoffrey Gates

Frequent Co-Authors

Håvard Hegre
Håvard Hegre Uppsala University
Halvard Buhaug
Halvard Buhaug Peace Research Institute
Kaare Strøm
Kaare Strøm University of California, San Diego
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch University of Essex
Eric Neumayer
Eric Neumayer London School of Economics and Political Science
Nils Petter Gleditsch
Nils Petter Gleditsch Peace Research Institute
Per G. Fredriksson
Per G. Fredriksson University of Louisville
Simon Hug
Simon Hug University of Geneva
Yonatan Lupu
Yonatan Lupu George Washington University

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