David D. Laitin

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David D. Laitin is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Swarthmore College, University of California, San Diego, Stanford University, University of Chicago

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David D. Laitin's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Political Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, David D. Laitin is the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science in the School of Humanities and Science at Stanford University. He is a comparative politics scholar who has written works on civil war, ethnic identity, culture and nationalism. He is known for his application of rational choice to the study of ethnic conflict, and for bridging a gap between ethnography and rational choice.

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Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War (2003) (6515)
Explaining Interethnic Cooperation (1996) (1465)
Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the near Abroad (1998) (926)
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change (2004) (855)
Ethnic and Nationalist Violence (1998) (671)
Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model (2008) (448)
Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change Among the Yoruba (1987) (427)
Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States (2004) (391)
Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research (2014) (351)
Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness: Kto Kogo? : A Cross-Country Study of the Origins and Targets of Terrorism (2008) (348)
Identifying barriers to Muslim integration in France (2010) (330)
Nations, States, and Violence (2007) (270)
Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa (1992) (236)
Sons of the Soil, Migrants, and Civil War (2011) (233)
Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War Onset (2007) (196)
Somalia: Nation In Search Of A State (1987) (192)
What Is a Language Community (2000) (188)
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods (2008) (168)
Hard Targets: Theory and Evidence on Suicide Attacks (2005) (156)
Political Culture and Political Preferences (1988) (153)
Immigration into Europe: Economic Discrimination, Violence, and Public Policy (2014) (150)
Conceptualizing Culture : Possibilities for Political Science (145)
WEAK STATES, ROUGH TERRAIN, AND LARGE-SCALE ETHNIC VIOLENCE (1999) (142)
DIVERSITY AND LOCAL PUBLIC GOODS: A NATURAL EXPERIMENT WITH EXOGENOUS RESIDENTIAL ALLOCATION (2012) (141)
National revivals and violence (1995) (140)
The Perestroikan Challenge to Social Science (2003) (116)
Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children’s mental health (2017) (114)
The Game Theory of Language Regimes (1993) (112)
The Social Effects of Ethnic Diversity at the Local Level: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation (2012) (107)
The Tower of Babel as a Coordination Game: Political Linguistics in Ghana (1994) (104)
Politics, Language, and Thought: The Somali Experience (1977) (103)
The Implications of Constructivism for Constructing Ethnic Fractionalization Indices (2000) (96)
Disciplining Political Science (1995) (91)
Comparative Politics: the State of the Subdiscipline (2000) (89)
Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (2007) (86)
Soldiers and Kinsmen in Uganda: The Making of a Military Ethnocracy (1976) (85)
Linguistic Revival: Politics and Culture in Catalonia (1989) (73)
Muslims in France: identifying a discriminatory equilibrium (2012) (73)
The National Uprisings in the Soviet Union (1991) (72)
Multidimensional measure of immigrant integration (2018) (70)
Marginality: A Microperspective (1995) (69)
A liberal democratic approach to language justice (2003) (65)
Language conflict and violence: the straw that strengthens the camel's back (2000) (63)
The Sharia Debate and the Origins of Nigeria's Second Republic (1982) (62)
The Cultural Identities of a European State (1997) (54)
'One Muslim is Enough!' - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France (2012) (53)
Ethnic Unmixing and Civil War (2004) (51)
Identity in formation: the russian-speaking nationality in the post-Soviet diaspora (1995) (51)
Socially relevant ethnic groups, ethnic structure, and AMAR (2015) (50)
Bringing the State Back In: Hegemony and Religious Conflict: British Imperial Control and Political Cleavages in Yorubaland (1985) (49)
Secessionist Rebellion in the Former Soviet Union (2001) (47)
Thinking a Way Out of Karabakh (1999) (46)
The Political Economy of Military Rule in Somalia (1976) (45)
Language policy and political strategy in India (1989) (45)
Language Policy and Human Development (2016) (45)
Marginality (1995) (43)
Response and Rejoinders to Symposium on Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies (2016) (42)
The Civic Culture at 30 (1995) (42)
Culture and National Identity: 'The East' and European Integration (2002) (41)
Language planning in the former Soviet Union: the case of Estonia (1996) (40)
Geographic axes and the persistence of cultural diversity (2012) (38)
Civil war termination ∗ (2007) (38)
Three models of integration and the Estonian/Russian reality (2003) (37)
Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (2010) (32)
Trust, Transparency, and Replication in Political Science (2017) (32)
Language and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Republics (1996) (29)
Introducing the AMAR (All Minorities at Risk) Data (2018) (28)
Language and the Construction of States: The Case of Catalonia in Spain (1994) (28)
Strangers no more: immigration and the challenges of integration in North America and western Europe. By Richard Alba and Nancy Foner: Why Muslim integration fails in Christianheritage societies. By Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin and MarieAnne Valfort (2017) (28)
Migration and language shift in urban India (1993) (28)
Strangers no more: immigration and the challenges of integration in North America and western Europe. By Richard Alba and Nancy Foner: Why Muslim integration fails in Christianheritage societies. By Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin and MarieAnne Valfort (2017) (28)
Language Conflict: Transactions and Games in Kenya (1989) (27)
The War in the Ogaden: Implications for Siyaad's Rôle in Somali History (1979) (27)
Religion, Political Culture, and the Weberian Tradition (1978) (25)
Diversity and Public Goods: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation (2011) (25)
Lending Credibility: The International Monetary Fund and the Post-Communist Transition (2003) (25)
Fisheries Management (2013) (24)
A randomized controlled design reveals barriers to citizenship for low-income immigrants (2018) (22)
The political, economic, and organizational sources of terrorism (2008) (22)
Religious Homophily in a Secular Country: Evidence from a Voting Game in France (2015) (22)
"Misunderestimating" Terrorism: The State Department's Big Mistake (2004) (21)
Ordinary Language and External Validity : Specifying Concepts in the Study of Ethnicity * (2013) (21)
Language normalization in Estonia and Catalonia (1992) (20)
Post-Soviet Politics (2000) (18)
A low-cost information nudge increases citizenship application rates among low-income immigrants (2019) (17)
Linguistic Conflict in Catalonia (1987) (17)
CIVIL WAR NON-ONSETS THE CASE OF JAPAN (2014) (17)
The Legacy of Colonial Language Policies and Their Impact on Student Learning: Evidence from an Experimental Program in Cameroon (2019) (17)
Immigrant Communities and Civil War * (2009) (17)
Nationalism and language: a post-Soviet perspective (1998) (17)
Culture and national identity (2000) (17)
Somalia and the World economy (1984) (16)
Trapped in Assumptions (2001) (16)
Does Contemporary Armed Conflict Have 'Deep Historical Roots'? (2014) (15)
National Identities in the Emerging European State (2001) (15)
Region of Origin or Religion? Understanding Why Immigrants from Muslim-Majority Countries are Discriminated Against in Western Europe (2013) (14)
Liberal Theory and the Nation (1998) (13)
Rational Islamophobia in Europe* (2010) (13)
South Africa: Violence, Myths, and Democratic Reform (1987) (12)
Capitalism and hegemony: Yorubaland and the international economy (1982) (12)
Ethnicity and Pork: A Virtual Test of Causal Mechanisms (2012) (11)
Toward a Political Science Discipline (1998) (11)
Exploring Opportunities in Cultural Diversity (2015) (11)
Civil war narratives (2005) (11)
The De-cosmopolitanization of the Russian Diaspora: A View from Brooklyn in the "Far Abroad" (2006) (10)
Explaining Interethnic Cooperation December 1996 stemming from the angers and frustrations that result from differential rates of economic development and career opportunities (2007) (10)
Hegemony And Culture Politics And Change Among The Yoruba (2022) (10)
Confronting Violence Face to Face (2008) (10)
10. What Is to Be Done (2016) (9)
Language Policy and Civil War (2005) (9)
Makes This Not a Subfield of Qualitative Methods (2017) (9)
Gender, Economic Development and Islam: A Perspective from France (2012) (9)
Language Choice among Ghanaians. (1991) (9)
Language, Ideology, and the Press in Catalonia (1992) (8)
Women, Muslim Immigrants, and Economic Integration in France (2014) (8)
Somalia: Intervention in Internal Conflict (2001) (8)
Politics, feminism, and the ethics of caring (1987) (8)
How Persistent is Armed Conflict (2012) (8)
An Equilibrium Alternative to the Study of Culture (2006) (8)
National Revival and Competitive Assimilation in Estonia (1996) (7)
Standardizing the fee-waiver application increased naturalization rates of low-income immigrants (2019) (7)
Language Policy and Economic Development (2014) (7)
The Political Crisis in Somalia (1982) (7)
Somali Territorial Claims in International Perspective (1976) (7)
African States since Independence (2019) (6)
Language Conflict and Violence: Or The Straw that Strengthened the Camel's Back (1999) (6)
Sons of the Soil, Immigrants and Civil War (2001) (6)
Structure and Irony in Social Revolutions (1992) (5)
The Continental Axis Theory Revisited (2011) (5)
Learning from Null Effects: A Bottom-Up Approach (2020) (5)
Language repertoires and state construction in Africa: Three theories explaining language outcomes (1992) (5)
Reporting all results efficiently: A RARE proposal to open up the file drawer (2021) (5)
Leadership: A Comparative Perspectivex (1974) (5)
Muslims in France: identifying a discriminatory equilibrium (2014) (4)
Modeling the Evolution of Ethnic Demography (2012) (4)
Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture: National revivals and violence (1999) (4)
Whither Political Science? Reflections on Professor Sartori's claim that “American-type political science…is going nowhere. It is an ever growing giant with feet of clay” (2004) (4)
Eli Berman and David Laitin (2007) (4)
Revolutionary Change in Somalia (1977) (4)
Holiness, Faith, Power, Politics@@@Opting for the Poor: Brazilian Catholicism in Transition@@@The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon@@@Liberation Theology@@@Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change among the Yoruba@@@The Catholic Church and Politics in Brazil, 1916-1985 (1987) (3)
Linguistic diversity, official language choice and human capital (2022) (3)
Nigeria – Random Narrative (2006) (3)
How do Muslims qua Muslims integrate in the US (2015) (3)
Empires in Macro-Sociology (2009) (3)
Language and States (1990) (3)
Language choice and national development: A typology for Africa (1979) (3)
A Consociational Democracy for Somalia (1990) (3)
2. Culture Shift in a Postcommunist State (2019) (3)
CATALAN ELITES AND LANGUAGE NORMALISATION (1989) (3)
The Wrong Way to Stop Terrorism (2017) (2)
‘Sons of the soil’: A model of assimilation and population control (2018) (2)
David Laitin, Identity in Formation. The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad, Ithaca London: Cornell University Press 1998 (2001) (2)
Language repertoires and state construction in Africa: Shaping the 3 ± 1 language state (1992) (2)
Can Language Be Planned?@@@Language Planning in Nigeria.@@@A Sociolinguistic Identification of Lingala.@@@Language Attitudes Abidjan: Implications for Language Planning in the Ivory Coast.@@@Code-Switching in Akan-English Bilingualism.@@@The Development of the National Language in Ethiopia: A Study (1991) (2)
Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy: A Reexamination of the Foundations of Social Science. By Danford John W.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. xiv + 265. $17.00.) (1980) (2)
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (review) (1999) (2)
The Political Science of Peter J. Katzenstein (2008) (2)
am Don ' t Fear Muslim Immigrants They Aren ' t the Real Problem (2018) (1)
9. The Cultural Elements of Ethnically Mixed States: Nationality Re-formation in the Soviet Successor States (2018) (1)
Language repertoires and state construction in Africa: Macro forces shaping the contemporary language situation in Africa (1992) (1)
A comment on Ian Shapiro's The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences (2006) (1)
Muslim immigrants have come to expect discrimination in France because of their religion, and this is unlikely to change. (2013) (1)
Bearing the Burden: A Model of Presidential Responsibility in Foreign Policy (1978) (1)
The Ogaadeen Question and Changes in Somali Identity (2019) (1)
ACADEMIC LIFE: The Uniting of Europe: A Memoir of Ernst B. Haas (2013) (1)
Identifying Opportunities to Improve the Network of Immigration Legal Services Providers (2020) (1)
Fifth Nations and Nationalism debate on David Laitin's Nations, States, and Violence (2009) (1)
American Immigration through Comparativists' Eyes (2008) (1)
Language repertoires and state construction in Africa: Strategic theory and Africa's language future (1992) (1)
An Anatomy of Power: Mann's dark side: linking democracy and genocide (2006) (1)
INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH AND THEORY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF JOHN GOLDTHORPE (2004) (1)
Bernd Heine and Wilhelm J. G. Möhlig Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya, vol. 1, Geographical and Historical Introduction: Language and Society, Selected Bibliography (1983) (1)
Standardizing the Fee Waiver Application Increased Naturalization Rates of Low-Income Immigrants (2019) (1)
A Tale of Two Eras: The Caucus and Perestroika (2015) (1)
Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder. By Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2006) 268 pp. $24.95 (2007) (0)
Political Culture (2018) (0)
Terrorism, Governance, and Development (2016) (0)
Nations and the Twenty-First Century State (2007) (0)
9. Beyond France: Muslim Immigrants in Western Europe and in the United States (2016) (0)
APSA-CP Winter 1997 (1998) (0)
Jerry Hough and the Challenge to Area Studies (2021) (0)
Children in Immigrant Families Deserve Health Care. (2022) (0)
Language repertoires and state construction in Africa: The micro dynamics of language use in contemporary Africa (1992) (0)
2. Anti-Muslim Discrimination in the French Labor Market and Its Consequences (2016) (0)
Ethnic Identifiability: Evidence from a Survey of Indian Voters (2017) (0)
Book Review:Science, Language and the Human Condition. Morton Kaplan (1986) (0)
John Rhoades Linguistic Diversity and Language Belief in Kenya: The Special Position of Swahili (1981) (0)
1. The Challenge of Muslim Migrants into Christian- Heritage Societies (2016) (0)
Integration Failures in Politics: A Search for Mechanisms Integration Failures in France: A Search for Mechanisms∗ (2020) (0)
The Former Soviet Union and Armenia at the Point of Independence (2006) (0)
Said S. Samatar: Oral poetry and Somali nationalism: the case of Sayyid Maḥammad ‘Abdille Ḥasan. (African Studies Series, 32.) xii 232 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. £19.50. (1983) (0)
3. Solving the Problem of Causal Identification (2016) (0)
6. Muslim Characteristics That Feed Rational Islamophobia (2016) (0)
5. Research Protocols (2016) (0)
The Pandemonium of Nations (2007) (0)
Exodus: Reflections on European Migration Policy (2016) (0)
Migration, Displacement, and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia. By Hilary Pilkington. New York: Routledge, 1998. x, 252 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. $85.00, hard bound. $27.99, paper. (1999) (0)
7. Evidence of Nonrational Islamophobia (2016) (0)
A low-cost information nudge increases citizenship application rates among low-income immigrants (2019) (0)
Status of Migrants' Mother Tongues, Le Statut des Langues D'Origine des Migrants. (1985) (0)
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria (Book) (2003) (0)
Choosing Terror: Rebels' Use of Terrorism in Internal Armed Conflict 1970-2010 Defining Terrorism the Causes of Terrorism Literature the Efficacy and Legitimacy Costs of Terrorism (2014) (0)
Integration Failures in France: A Search for Mechanisms Integration Failures in France: A Search for Mechanisms∗ (2020) (0)
Book Review: Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria (2003) (0)
Preliminary Draft Not for Citation Kto Kogo?: A Cross-Country Study of the Origins and Targets of Terrorism (2003) (0)
Immigration Policy Lab Integration Index (2019) (0)
Chad Outline (2006) (0)
Toward A Typology of Dialogue and Deliberation by (2006) (0)
Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India - A Review Symposium (2001) (0)
Soviet Acculturation Policies (1996) (0)
Nationalist Violence in Postwar Europe. By Luis de la Calle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. (2016) (0)
Language repertoires and state construction in Africa: Language repertoires as political outcomes (1992) (0)
United States Foreign Policy: Options on the Horn (1978) (0)
INO volume 54 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2000) (0)
Rational Choice and Culture: A Thick Description of Abner Cohen's Hausa Migrants (2019) (0)
Comment On Lowell Barrington (2001) (0)
Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Barry R. Weingast, Analytic Narratives, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. (2000) (0)
Report on the Meeting of the Political Science Members of the National Academy of Sciences (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (2008) (0)
MACHINE LEARNING AND CIVIL WAR: INVESTIGATING TREE-BASED MODELS FOR PREDICTING INTRASTATE VIOLENCE by Hilaire Meire A capstone submitted to Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Government Analytics (2019) (0)
Models of Counterterrorism (2010) (0)
Managing the Multinational State (2007) (0)
Saȉd Sheikh Samatar and Lydia Glick Samatar—love, poetry, and history in the Horn of Africa (2021) (0)
Reviews of Books (1981) (0)
The Effect of Education on Civic and Political Engagement in Non-consolidated Democracies: Evidence from Nigeria * This Paper Benefited from Helpful Conversations with and Suggestions from 2 Politics and Primary Education in Nigeria 2.1 Social and Political Context (2016) (0)
Sunni-Alawite control to Alawite dominance?causes the estimate of N*'s impact to nearly vanish. (2007) (0)
[Immuno-allergic aspects of carriers of beta-hemolytic streptococci]. (1969) (0)
8. A Discriminatory Equilibrium (2016) (0)
[Epidemiological study of the offspring of patients with epidemic hepatitis]. (1973) (0)
The Downside of Solidarity (2007) (0)
Book Review: A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero’s Spain (2012) (0)
Additional Annual Meeting ‘18 Highlights: National Academy of Sciences Meeting Report (2019) (0)
Russian nationalism in post-soviet Estonia (1995) (0)
4. Procuring a Sample (2016) (0)
UCLA Theory and Research in Comparative Social Analysis Title (2005) (0)
CDDRL WORKING PAPERS A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change (2004) (0)
Why Choose Terrorism? Rebels and Terrorists (2009) (0)
The American-Somali Alliance: Whose Agenda? (1985) (0)
The Cultural Foundations of Nationalism (2007) (0)
End Matter (2002) (0)
Language repertoires and state construction in Africa: Case studies from independent Africa (1992) (0)
Book Review: Status of Migrants’ Mother Tongues, Le Statut des Langues D'Origine des Migrants (1985) (0)
The Case of Japan (2021) (0)
Don't Fear Muslim Immigrants (2016) (0)
Book Reviews : Soldiers and Kinsmen in Uganda: The Making of a Military Ethnocracy. By ALI A. MAZRUI. (Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, 1975. Pp. 325. $15.00.) (1976) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1987) (0)
Book Review (2001) (0)
Region & Country Codes (2019) (0)
Language repertoires and state construction in Africa: Do language outcomes matter? (1992) (0)
24. THE ONION PRINCIPLE (2020) (0)
Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (review) (2007) (0)
Multilingualism. JOHN EDWARDS (1995) (0)
Did Leninism ' s Fall Pave the Way for Islamism ' s Rise ? (2009) (0)
Containing Nationalism. By Michael Hechter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+256. $29.95. (2000) (0)

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