Jessica Maves Braithwaite

Associate Professor, School of Government and Public Policy | Member of the Graduate Faculty

About

Jessica Braithwaite's research addresses how repressive activities and institutional characteristics of governments influence and are influenced by) violent and nonviolent strategies of domestic opposition groups. She also examines the origins of rebellion as a co-creator of the Foundations of Rebel GrouEmergence FORGE) dataset. Her work has been published or is forthcoming at Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Research and Politics, and Conflict Management and Peace Science.

Research Area

social movements, rebel groups, political science, conflict resolution, democratization, conflict, civil wars, conflict studies, origins, africa, effect, research, civil war, organizational behavior, civil society

Collaborative Research: Ghosts in the Machine: Militias and Paramilitaries in Militarized Interstate Conflicts
Active·2021·$64.2K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
militias, paramilitaries, conflicts, collaborative research, militarized interstate conflicts
Networks of Influence and Support in Peace Operations
2021·$139.4K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
peace operations, network analysis, influence, support, social networks
Chiefs, Elections, and Violence: Mobilization and Demobilization of African Voters
2021·$15K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
elections, political mobilization, african politics, voter behavior, violence
The Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns
2018·$99.9K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
political science, social movements, psychology, sociology, history

Recent

Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know. By Erica Chenoweth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 368p. 18.95 paper.

2022

civil resistance, political science, social movements, conflict studies, nonviolent action

Bringing Pandemic Lessons to the (Virtual) Classroom
2020

The Scientific Study of Civil Wars
International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa
Dynamics of Civil Wars
Methods of Political Inquiry

Jessica Maves Braithwaite

About

Research Area

Grants(4)

Collaborative Research: Ghosts in the Machine: Militias and Paramilitaries in Militarized Interstate Conflicts

Networks of Influence and Support in Peace Operations

Chiefs, Elections, and Violence: Mobilization and Demobilization of African Voters

The Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns

Publications(41)

Backgrounds With Benefits? Rebel GrouOrigins and Concessions During Civil Wars in Africa

Layers of political repression: Integrating research on social movement repression

Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization

Challenges and payoffs of building a dataset from scratch

Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know. By Erica Chenoweth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 368p. 18.95 paper.

Two Sides of the Same Coin? Examining Rebel Governance and Terrorism

Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Layers of Political Repression: Connecting Disjointed Research Related to Social Movement Repression

Muddying the Waters: The Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns and the Failure of Ceasefires in Civil Wars

Who Keeps the Peace? Reconceptualizing Peacebuilding Through Networks of Influence and Support

Collaborations(5)

Alex Braithwaite

Jeffrey Kucik

Anne Boustead

Frank Gonzalez

Kirssa Cline Ryckman

News(1)

Bringing Pandemic Lessons to the (Virtual) Classroom

Courses(4)

The Scientific Study of Civil Wars

International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa

Dynamics of Civil Wars

Methods of Political Inquiry