Research Interests for Laia Balcells

Laia Balcells (Yale Ph.D., 2010) is Assistant Professor of Political Science. Her research explores the determinants of political violence and civil wars, warfare dynamics during conflict, and redistribution and conflict. She has recently published at the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Politics & Society, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. She has been recipient of the APSA Luebbert Prize for Best Article in Comparative Politics and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Research grant. Before joining the political science department at Duke, she was a researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis, CSIC (Barcelona) and affiliated professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE).

Keywords:

Bombings, Civil war, Competition, Identity, Political violence, Spain, Violence

Representative Publications

1. L. Balcells, Rivalry and Revenge: the Politics of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press) (2016)
2. Balcells, L; Fernández-Albertos, J; Kuo, A, Preferences for Inter-Regional Redistribution, Comparative Political Studies, vol. 48 no. 10 (September, 2015), pp. 1318-1351, ISSN 0010-4140 [doi]
3. with Balcells, L; Daniels, L-A; Escribà-Folch, A, The determinants of low-intensity intergroup violence (Forthcoming), pp. 33-48 [doi]
4. Balcells, L; Justino, P, Bridging Micro and Macro Approaches on Civil Wars and Political Violence, Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 58 no. 8 (December, 2014), pp. 1343-1359, ISSN 0022-0027 [doi] [abs]
5. Balcells, L; Kalyvas, SN, Does Warfare Matter? Severity, Duration, and Outcomes of Civil Wars, Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 58 no. 8 (December 2014), pp. 1390-1418, ISSN 0022-0027 [doi]
6. Balcells, L, Mass Schooling and Catalan Nationalism, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, vol. 19 no. 4 (2013), pp. 467-486, ISSN 1353-7113 [doi] [abs]