David Siegel, Professor

Contact Info:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• POLSCI 631.02, DEDUCT/ANALYTICAL APPROACHES Synopsis

  Gross Hall 111, M 11:45 AM-02:15 PM

• POLSCI 630.001, PROBABILITY AND REGRESSION Synopsis

  Allen 103, Tu 09:30 AM-11:30 AM

• POLSCI 630.01L, PROBABILITY AND REGRESSION Synopsis

  Allen 103, Tu 02:00 PM-04:00 PM

• POLSCI 609.01, FUNDAMENTALS OF RESEARCH Synopsis

  Gross Hall 111, Th 08:45 AM-11:15 AM

Office Hours:

Tuesday 9:30-11:30 & by appointment

Education:

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006

MA, Stanford University, 2004

AM, Harvard University, 1998

AB, Princeton University, 1996

Specialties:

Security, Peace, & Conflict
Political Economy
Political Institutions
Behavior & Identities
Methods

Research Interests: collective action, political violence and terrorism, social networks, elections

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.

Areas of Interest:

Collective Action
Formal Theory
Terrorism
Social Networks
Elections
Identity
Pedagogy

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Levy, G; Dudley, R; Chen, C; Siegel, DA, Diplomatic Statements and the Strategic Use of Terrorism in Civil Wars, Journal of Conflict Resolution (January, 2024) [doi]  [abs].
2. Mastro, OS; Siegel, DA, Talking to the enemy: Explaining the emergence of peace talks in interstate war, Journal of Theoretical Politics, vol. 35 no. 3 (July, 2023), pp. 182-203 [doi]  [abs].
3. 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, vol. 37 no. 3 (January, 2022), pp. 346-358 [doi]  [abs].
4. Datta, AC; Siegel, DA, INCLUSIVE AND NON-INCLUSIVE NETWORKS, PS - Political Science and Politics, vol. 54 no. 3 (July, 2021), pp. 507-509 [doi] .
5. 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].