Navid Mehrdad

Columbia University

Visiting Scholar

New York, NY NY 10027

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (13)

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Media Disruption and Revolutionary Unrest: Evidence from Mubarak's Quasi-Experiment

GigaNet: Global Internet Governance Academic Network, Annual Symposium 2012
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Jul 2016
Navid Mehrdad
Columbia University
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Dynamics of Protest, Egyptian Uprising 2011, Information Cascades, Learning, Media Disruption, Mobilization, Political Violence, Revolution, Social Networks, GigaNet

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Localization of the News and Urban Unrest: A Media Usage and Protest Location Survey in Cairo

APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2014
Navid Mehrdad
Columbia University
Downloads 134 (363,023)

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Egyptian Uprising 2011, Media Usage, Mobilization, Political Violence, Protest Dispersion, Social Networks, Survey

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Participation Dilemma: The Logic of Voter Turnout in Authoritarian Elections

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 14 Feb 2018
Navid Mehrdad
Columbia University
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Authoritarian Elections, Cooptation, Development, Education, Iranian Politics, Rent Sharing, Resource Curse, Voter Turnout

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Voting Together: Economic Adversity and Voter Turnout in Authoritarian Elections

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 23 Feb 2018
Navid Mehrdad
Columbia University
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Collective Voting, Economic Adversity, Electoral Authoritarianism, Iranian Politics, Russian Politics, Voter Turnout

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Dynamics of Mobilization in Political Networks

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2017
Navid Mehrdad, Ji Liu and Sekhar Tatikonda
Columbia University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Yale University

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Cascade, Collective action, Diffusion, Learning, Mobilization, Network Structure

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The Strategy of Perception in Third Party Interventions

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2017
Navid Mehrdad
Columbia University

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Civil Conflict, Constructivism, Ideological Identification, Image, Information Accuracy, Perception, Third Party Intervention

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Transparency and Repression: An Explanation for the Democratic Civil Peace

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2017
Navid Mehrdad
Columbia University

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Democratic Civil Peace, Information, Learning, Military, Political Violence, Repression, Revolution, Transparency, Uprisings of 1989 and 2011

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Media Disruption Exacerbates Revolutionary Unrest: Evidence from Mubarak’s Quasi-Experiment

APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 01 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2020
Navid Mehrdad
Columbia University

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Revolution, Social Networks, Learning, Media Disruption, Political Violence, Cascade, Egyptian Uprising 2011, Mobilization

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On Reinforcement Learning with Variable Increments

Posted: 13 May 2011
Navid Mehrdad
Columbia University

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reinforcement learning, games, replicator dynamics

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Dynamic Models of Mobilization in Political Networks

Proceedings of 2010 Political Networks Conference, Duke University
Posted: 03 Sep 2010
Navid Mehrdad
Columbia University

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cascade, collective action, diffusion, mobilization, network, structure, threshold

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Social Network Formation Based on Inclusion

Posted: 02 Sep 2010
Navid Mehrdad
Columbia University

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social networks, inclusion, ethnocentrism, xenophobia, reinforcement learning, polarization

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Difference and Deference, Models of Democratic Deliberation

Posted: 02 Sep 2010
Navid Mehrdad
Columbia University

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Condorcet’s Jury Theorem (CJT), Crowd behavior, Deference, Deliberative democracy, Followers, Opinion leaders

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Revolutions and the Centralized Media, an Inverse Relation

APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 19 Jul 2010
Navid Mehrdad
Columbia University

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collective action, media, political violence, revolutions, social networks, threshold