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Overview

Scott Sigmund Gartner is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and works primarily within the social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, cultural studies, demography, and safety research. The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics, focusing notably on defense, military, and policy studies, terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence, as well as crime patterns and interventions, Hong Kong and Taiwan politics, Japanese history and culture, culture, economy, and development studies, and experimental behavioral economics studies.

Their recent research publications include:

  • "A Bipartite Network Analysis of Terrorism in Nigeria," 2024, published in Crime & Delinquency
  • "Index," 2021, published in Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • "Casualties and Politics," 2020, published in International Relations
  • "Index," 2021, published in Bristol University Press eBooks
  • "Front Matter," 2021, published in Bristol University Press eBooks

Scott Sigmund Gartner frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Chin-Hao Huang, Patrick James, Yitan Li, and Gary M. Segura. Among these, Chin-Hao Huang has worked with Gartner on 28 publications, Patrick James on 21, Yitan Li on 28 publications in total counting two separate entries with 18 and 10 publications, and Gary M. Segura on 12.

The scientist has contributed multiple book publications. Their work has appeared in Bristol University Press eBooks, where four editions of "Identity in the Shadow of a Giant" were published in 2021. They also have a publication titled "Costly Calculations" with Cambridge University Press in 2021, which has been cited 17 times. Additionally, "Identity in the Shadow of a Giant" was published in 2021 by Policy Press.

Key venues for Scott Sigmund Gartner's published research include:

  • Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Crime & Delinquency
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • International Relations

Best Publications

  • Historical Statistics of the United States

    Susan B. Carter;Scott Sigmund Gartner;Michael R. Haines;Alan L. Olmstead

  • War, Casualties, and Public Opinion:

    Scott Sigmund Gartner;Gary M. Segura

  • The Multiple Effects of Casualties on Public Support for War: An Experimental Approach

    Scott Sigmund Gartner

  • Threat and Repression: The Non-Linear Relationship Between Government and Opposition Violence*

    Scott Sigmund Gartner;Patrick M. Regan

  • Strategic Assessment in War

    Scott Sigmund Gartner

  • All Politics Are Local: Local Losses and Individual Attitudes toward the Vietnam War

    Scott Sigmund Gartner;Gary M. Segura;Michael Wilkening

  • Is there method in the madness of mediation? Some lessons for mediators from quantitative studies of mediation

    Jacob Bercovitch;Scott Sigmund Gartner

  • War Expansion and War Outcome

    Scott Sigmund Gartner;Randolph M. Siverson

  • Overcoming Obstacles to Peace: The Contribution of Mediation to Short-Lived Conflict Settlements

    Scott Sigmund Gartner;Jacob Bercovitch

  • Race, Casualties, and Opinion in the Vietnam War

    Scott Sigmund Gartner;Gary M. Segura

  • Time to Fight Government Type and Conflict Initiation in Parliamentary Systems

    Michael J. Ireland;Scott Sigmund Gartner

  • War Casualties, Policy Positions, and the Fate of Legislators

    Scott Sigmund Gartner;Gary M. Segura;Bethany A. Barratt

  • Making the International Local: The Terrorist Attack on the USS Cole, Local Casualties, and Media Coverage

    Scott Sigmund Gartner

  • Signs of Trouble: Regional Organization Mediation and Civil War Agreement Durability

    Scott Sigmund Gartner

  • All Politics are Still Local: The Iraq War and the 2006 Midterm Elections

    Scott Sigmund Gartner;Gary M. Segura

  • Ties to the Dead: Connections to Iraq War and 9/11 Casualties and Disapproval of the President

    Scott Sigmund Gartner

  • Body Counts and "Success" in the Vietnam and Korean Wars

    Scott Sigmund Gartner;Marissa Edson Myers

  • Casualties and Constituencies : Democratic Accountability, Electoral Institutions, and Costly Conflicts

    Michael Koch;Scott Sigmund Gartner

  • Assessing outcomes: Conflict management and the durability of peace

    Scott Sigmund Gartner;Molly M. Melin

  • International conflict mediation : new approaches and findings

    Jacob Bercovitch;Scott Sigmund Gartner

  • The Historical Statistics of the United States

    Scott Sigmund Gartner;Michael R. Haines;Alan L. Olmstead;Richard Sutch

  • Fear of rejection: The puzzle of unaccepted mediation offers in international conflict:

    Molly M. Melin;Scott Sigmund Gartner;Jacob Bercovitch

  • Opening Up the Black Box of War

    Scott Sigmund Gartner

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary M. Segura
Gary M. Segura Stanford University
Jacob Bercovitch
Jacob Bercovitch University of Canterbury
Diane Felmlee
Diane Felmlee Pennsylvania State University
Patrick James
Patrick James University of Southern California
Patrick M. Regan
Patrick M. Regan University of Notre Dame
Randolph M. Siverson
Randolph M. Siverson University of California, Davis

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