James Fearon

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James Fearon is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Stanford University, Harvard University

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James Fearon

Political Science

#364

World Rank

#496

Historical Rank

#214

USA Rank

Public Policy

#129

World Rank

#131

Historical Rank

#90

USA Rank

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Political Science

James Fearon's Degrees

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

Why Is James Fearon Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, James D. Fearon is the Theodore and Francis Geballe Professor of Political Science at Stanford University; he is known for his work on the theory of civil wars, international bargaining, war's inefficiency puzzle, audience costs, and ethnic constructivism. According to a 2011 survey of International Relations scholars, Fearon is among the most influential International Relations scholars of the last twenty years. His 1995 article "Rationalist Explanations for War" is the most assigned journal article in International Relations graduate training at U.S. universities.

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James Fearon's Published Works

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Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War (2003) (6515)
Rationalist explanations for war (1995) (3217)
Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes (1994) (2007)
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country* (2003) (1832)
Explaining Interethnic Cooperation (1996) (1465)
Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer than Others? (2004) (1259)
Bargaining, Enforcement, and International Cooperation (1998) (988)
Primary Commodity Exports and Civil War (2005) (846)
Democracy, Accountability, and Representation: Electoral Accountability and the Control of Politicians: Selecting Good Types versus Sanctioning Poor Performance (1999) (802)
Signaling Foreign Policy Interests (1997) (698)
Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science (1991) (620)
Rationalism v. Constructivism: A Skeptical View (2002) (523)
Signaling Versus the Balance of Power and Interests (1994) (415)
Self-Enforcing Democracy (2006) (399)
Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States (2004) (391)
Deliberative Democracy: Deliberation as Discussion (1998) (297)
Commitment Problems and the Spread of Ethnic Conflict (2006) (275)
Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict (2019) (251)
DOMESTIC POLITICS, FOREIGN POLICY, AND THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (1998) (242)
Sons of the Soil, Migrants, and Civil War (2011) (233)
Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War Onset (2007) (196)
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods (2008) (168)
Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Violence (2008) (154)
Economic Development, Insurgency, and Civil War (2008) (149)
WEAK STATES, ROUGH TERRAIN, AND LARGE-SCALE ETHNIC VIOLENCE (1999) (142)
WHY ETHNIC POLITICS AND “PORK” TEND TO GO TOGETHER (129)
Iraq's Civil War (2007) (122)
Selection Effects and Deterrence (2002) (105)
Governance and civil war onset (2010) (85)
Separatist Wars, Partition, and World Order (2004) (79)
ETHNIC WAR AS A COMMITMENT PROBLEM ∗ (67)
Fighting rather than Bargaining (2007) (59)
How Does Development Assistance Affect Collective Action Capacity? Results from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia (2015) (58)
Ethnic Structure and Cultural Diversity around the World: A Cross-National Data Set on Ethnic Groups 1 (2002) (54)
Socially relevant ethnic groups, ethnic structure, and AMAR (2015) (50)
Democratic Institutions and Collective Action Capacity: Results from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia (2009) (40)
Civil war termination ∗ (2007) (38)
The Politicization of Cultural and Economic Difference A Return to the Theory of Regional Autonomy Movements (2002) (34)
Civil war since 1945: Some facts and a theory ⁄ (2005) (33)
Development Assistance, Institution Building, and Social Cohesion after Civil War: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Liberia (2009) (28)
Civil War & the Current International System (2017) (25)
Causes and Counterfactuals in Social Science: (2020) (25)
Cooperation, Conflict, and the Costs of Anarchy (2018) (25)
Do Working Men Rebel (2010) (22)
THE OFFENSE-DEFENSE BALANCE AND WAR SINCE 1648 (1997) (21)
Ordinary Language and External Validity : Specifying Concepts in the Study of Ethnicity * (2013) (21)
Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict (2020) (20)
2. The Rise of Emergency Relief Aid (2018) (19)
A Conversation with Kenneth Waltz (2012) (18)
CIVIL WAR NON-ONSETS THE CASE OF JAPAN (2014) (17)
International Financial Institutions and Economic Policy Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa (1988) (15)
Does Contemporary Armed Conflict Have 'Deep Historical Roots'? (2014) (15)
Community-driven reconstruction in Lofa : country impact assessment (2013) (15)
Two States, Two Types, Two Actions (2011) (14)
A Simple Political Economy of Relations among Democracies and Autocracies ∗ (2008) (13)
Persistent Fighting to Forestall Adverse Shifts in the Distribution of Power (2009) (12)
Arming and Arms Races (2010) (12)
Biological Institutions: The Political Science of Animal Cooperation (2013) (11)
Explaining Interethnic Cooperation December 1996 stemming from the angers and frustrations that result from differential rates of economic development and career opportunities (2007) (10)
Homicide data, third revision background paper prepared for the WDR 2011 team (2011) (9)
How Persistent is Armed Conflict (2012) (8)
Homicide Data, Third Revision (2011) (7)
Fragilité des États, indicateurs de gouvernance et risque de guerre civile. State Fragility, Governance Indicators, and the Risk of Civil Conflict (2012) (7)
dalus The Prospects & Limits of Deliberative Democracy (2017) (7)
Rationalism V. Constructionism a Skeptical View (2002) (7)
The Peacock's Tale: Lessons from evolution for effective signaling in international politics (2012) (6)
Do governance indicators predict anything ? The case of “ fragile states ” and civil war ∗ (2010) (6)
Why Do Women Co-Operate More in Women’s Groups? (2018) (5)
Beyond Civil War (2018) (4)
Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict (2019) (4)
Evaluating Community-Driven Reconstruction (2009) (4)
Evaluating Community-Driven Reconstruction Lessons from post-conflict Liberia (2009) (4)
Nigeria – Random Narrative (2006) (3)
Strategic dynamics of social mimicry (2013) (3)
Democratic Institutions and Collective Action (2012) (3)
The arms trade , international alignments , and international conflict (2018) (3)
Comments on R. Harrison Wagner’s War and the State: The Theory of International Politics (2010) (2)
Development Assistance and Collective Action Capacity : Results from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia (2013) (2)
Political Quotas and Governance (2020) (2)
A Simple Political Economy of International Relations Between Democracies and Autocracies (2009) (1)
Cooperation, Conflict, and the Costs of Anarchy—CORRIGENDUM (2018) (0)
Biological institutions : 2 The political science of animal cooperation 3 (2011) (0)
INO volume 68 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (2014) (0)
INO volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2000) (0)
Ethnic Identifiability: Evidence from a Survey of Indian Voters (2017) (0)
In Memoriam: Robert L. Powell (2022) (0)
The Former Soviet Union and Armenia at the Point of Independence (2006) (0)
INO volume 55 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (2001) (0)
State Failure and Challenges to Democratization in Africa (2009) (0)
On-line Appendix for “Cooperation, Conflict, and the Costs of Anarchy” (2018) (0)
INO volume 54 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2000) (0)
The Political Economy of Fragile States (2013) (0)
INO volume 66 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2012) (0)
Sunni-Alawite control to Alawite dominance?causes the estimate of N*'s impact to nearly vanish. (2007) (0)
Chad Outline (2006) (0)
INO volume 68 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (2014) (0)
A Conversation with (2012) (0)
THE ROLE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN INNER CITY REGENERATION (1988) (0)
A Theory of Elite-Initiated Democratization, Illustrated With the Case of Myanmar (2021) (0)
The Fourth Annual Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture in International Affairs (2011) (0)
INO volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1999) (0)
UCLA Theory and Research in Comparative Social Analysis Title (2005) (0)
Referees 2011 (2011) (0)
Studies of U1-xNpxT2Al3 and U1-xPuxT2Al3. (1995) (0)
Peasants into Democrats? Evaluating the impact of information on local governance in Mali (2012) (0)

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