Research Interests for David Siegel

David A Siegel (Stanford Ph.D., 2006) is Associate Professor of Political Science. His research addresses the theoretical determinants of collective action in the contexts of political violence and terrorism, elections, and opinion and identity formation. He has published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics, and is the coauthor of A Behavioral Theory of Elections and A Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research, both from Princeton University Press. Prior to coming to Duke, he was on faculty at Florida State University.

Keywords:

Collective Action, Elections, Formal Theory, Game Theory, Government, Identity, Insurgency, Pedagogy, Social Networking, Social Networks, Terrorism

Areas of Interest:

Collective Action
Formal Theory
Terrorism
Social Networks
Elections
Identity
Pedagogy

Recent Publications

1. Wirtz, JJ; Siegel, DA; Shapiro, JN; Zegart, A; Johnson, LK, INS special forum on David Sherman’s ‘An Intelligence Classic That Almost Never Was–Roberta Wohlstetter’s Pearl Harbor: warning and decision’, Intelligence and National Security (January, 2022) [doi] [abs]
2. Datta, AC; Siegel, DA, Inclusive and Non-Inclusive Networks, Ps: Political Science & Politics (January, 2021), pp. 7-9 [doi]
3. Crabtree, C; Kern, HL; Siegel, DA, Cults of personality, preference falsification, and the dictator’s dilemma, Journal of Theoretical Politics, vol. 32 no. 3 (July, 2020), pp. 409-434 [doi] [abs]
4. Beardsley, K; Liu, H; Mucha, PJ; Siegel, DA; Tellez, JF, Hierarchy and the provision of order in international politics, Journal of Politics, vol. 82 no. 2 (April, 2020), pp. 731-746 [doi] [abs]
5. Mele, CS; Siegel, DA, Identifiability, state repression, and the onset of ethnic conflict, Public Choice, vol. 181 no. 3-4 (December, 2019), pp. 399-422 [doi] [abs]