David Siegel, Professor

David Siegel
Contact Info:
Office Location:  140 Science Drive, 293 Gross Hall, Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  +1 919 660 4300
Email Address:  
Web Page:   https://sites.duke.edu/daveasiegel//files/2020/07/CV_Siegel.pdf

Teaching (Spring 2024):

Teaching (Summer1 2024):

Teaching (Fall 2024):

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].