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T. David Mason is affiliated with the University of North Texas in the United States. Their research is situated within the broad field of Social Sciences, specifically focusing on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Physiology, Economics and Econometrics, and Strategy and Management. Their work addresses complex issues related to political conflict, governance, and international security.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
  • Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
  • China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
  • Social Capital and Networks

Their recent published papers are:

  • "WHO PROTESTS AND WHY: HIERARCHICAL GOVERNMENT TRUST AND PROTEST PARTICIPATION IN CHINA," 2021, Journal of East Asian Studies
  • "Proto-Insurgency, Repression-Driven Contagion, and Civil War Onset," 2023, Defence and Peace Economics
  • "Who protests in China: Mobilizing workers across China's diverse urban labor force," 2022, The Social Science Journal
  • "Civil War Outcomes and Egalitarian Democracy in Post-Civil War States: A Cross-National Analysis, 1946-2018," 2022, Defence and Peace Economics
  • "Land Reform Versus Repression in Counterinsurgency: Evidence From El Salvador," 2024, Journal of Conflict Resolution

They have frequently published in the following venues:

  • Defence and Peace Economics
  • ERA Forum
  • Journal of East Asian Studies
  • The Social Science Journal
  • Journal of Conflict Resolution

T. David Mason has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Yen-Hsin Chen
  • Mustafa Kirisci
  • Stephen Jennings
  • Neil Gregor
  • Marina Prados Espínola

Their scholarly contributions cover multiple aspects of political and social dynamics, particularly within the context of China and conflict-affected regions globally. Their work engages with protest dynamics, insurgency, civil war outcomes, and the interaction between land reform and repression in counterinsurgency settings. This multidisciplinary and multi-regional focus reflects a consistent engagement with both theoretical and empirical questions in international security and governance.

Best Publications

  • The Political Economy of Death Squads: Toward a Theory of the Impact of State-Sanctioned Terror

    T. David Mason;Dale A. Krane

  • How Civil Wars End A Rational Choice Approach

    T. David Mason;Patrick J. Fett

  • Sustaining the Peace: Determinants of Civil War Recurrence

    J. Michael Quinn;T. David Mason;Mehmet Gurses

  • Colonial Style and Post-Colonial Ethnic Conflict in Africa

    Robert Blanton;T. David Mason;Brian Athow

  • Win, Lose, or Draw: Predicting the Outcome of Civil Wars:

    T. David Mason;Joseph P Weingarten;Patrick J. Fett

  • When Civil Wars Recur: Conditions for Durable Peace after Civil Wars

    T. David Mason;Mehmet Gurses;Patrick T. Brandt;Jason Michael Quinn

  • Theories of Civil Violence. By James B. Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. 345p. $37.50.

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  • Democracy Out of Anarchy: The Prospects for Post-Civil-War Democracy*

    Mehmet Gurses;T. David Mason

  • When and how the fighting stops: Explaining the duration and outcome of civil wars

    Patrick T. Brandt;T. David Mason;Mehmet Gurses;Nicolai Petrovsky

  • Insurgency, counterinsurgency, and the rational peasant

    T. David Mason

  • Individual Participation in Collective Racial Violence: A Rational Choice Synthesis

    T. David Mason

  • Women's Participation in Central American Revolutions: A Theoretical Perspective

    T. David Mason

  • Civil War Settlements, Size of Governing Coalition, and Durability of Peace in Post–Civil War States

    Madhav Joshi;T. David Mason

  • Land Reform and the Breakdown of Clientelist Politics in El Salvador

    T. David Mason

  • Land Tenure, Democracy, and Insurgency in Nepal: Peasant Support for Insurgency Versus Democracy

    Madhav Joshi;T. David Mason

  • "Take Two Acres and Call Me in the Morning": Is Land Reform a Prescription for Peasant Unrest?

    T. David Mason

  • Nonelite Response to State-Sanctioned Terror:

    T. David Mason

  • What Do We Know about Civil Wars

    T. David Mason;Sara McLaughlin Mitchell

  • Modernization and Its Discontents Revisited: The Political Economy of Urban Unrest in the People's Republic of China

    T. David Mason

  • Between Democracy and Revolution: Peasant Support for Insurgency versus Democracy in Nepal:

    Madhav Joshi;T. David Mason

  • Weak States, Regime Types, and Civil War

    Mehmet Gurses;T. David Mason

  • Tiananmen Square Thirteen Years After: The Prospects for Civil Unrest in China

    T. David Mason;Jonathan Clements

  • Conflict Prevention and Peace-building in Post-War Societies : Sustaining the Peace

    T. David Mason;James D. Meernik

  • Land Tenure, Democracy, and Patterns of Violence During the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal, 1996–2005

    Madhav Joshi;T. David Mason

  • Globalization, Democratization, and the Prospects for Civil War in the New Millennium

    T. David Mason

  • Win, lose, or draw in the fog of civil war

    J Michael Greig;T David Mason;Jesse Hamner

Frequent Co-Authors

James Meernik
James Meernik University of North Texas
Steven C. Poe
Steven C. Poe University of North Texas
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell University of Iowa

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