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Philip Roessler

- Department of Government

Assistant Professor

Government Dept, College of William & Mary

Post Office Box 8795

Williamsburg, VA 23186

United States

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5

Scholarly Papers (8)

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1.

Political Instability, Threat Displacement and Civil War: Darfur as a Theory Building Case

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 14 Aug 2011
Philip Roessler
- Department of Government
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political instability, civil war, Sudan, Darfur, weak states

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Hobbes Revisited: The Commitment Problem, Trust and Preemption

APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 01 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2011
Philip Roessler and Harry Verhoeven
- Department of Government and University of Oxford - Department of Politics and International Relations
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preemption, commitment problem, Hobbes, Congo, regime instability

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Blurry Lines: The African Union's Imbalanced Regime of Constitutionalism and Its Consequences

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2017
Philip Roessler and Layla Abi-Falah
- Department of Government and William & Mary Law School
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Africa, African Union, democracy, constitutionalism, coups, term limits, personal rule

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Can Loss Aversion Increase Savings? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Nov 2022
Wayne Aaron Sandholtz, Peter Carroll, Daniel L. Nielson, Flora Myamba, Joseph Price and Philip Roessler
Nova School of Business and Economics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Texas at Austin, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Brigham Young University and - Department of Government
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Savings, Behavioral Economics, household finance, Tanzania, RCT

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Cash Crops, Print Technologies and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Africa

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15162
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 18 Aug 2020
Yannick Pengl, Philip Roessler and Valeria Rueda
affiliation not provided to SSRN, - Department of Government and University of Nottingham
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Africa, Agriculture, Colonialism, Ethnicity, Language, Missions

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The Effects of Chinese Aid and Investment on State Building in Africa

ASA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 26 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2014
Philip Roessler and Rob Blair
- Department of Government and Yale University

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Spatial Variation of the Colonial State in Africa and its Consequences

ASA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 22 Mar 2013
Philip Roessler and Nicolas Van de Walle
- Department of Government and Cornell University

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The Enemy Within: Personal Rule, Coups and Civil War in Africa

World Politics, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp.300-346
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2011
Philip Roessler
- Department of Government

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civil war; coup d’état; ethnicity; Africa