Aila M. Matanock

University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science

Assistant Professor

210 Barrows Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720

United States

  • University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science

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1.

Living in Fear: The Dynamics of Extortion in Mexico’s Drug War

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 25 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2018
Beatriz Magaloni, Gustavo Robles, Aila M. Matanock, Vidal Romero and Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Stanford University - Department of Political Science, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Stanford University
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Crime; drug-trafficking organizations; extortion; civilian abuse; Mexico; list experiments

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How and Why Armed Groups Participate in Elections

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 01 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2018
Aila M. Matanock and Paul Staniland
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science and University of Chicago
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armed groups, armed actors, rebels, terrorists, elections, boycotts, sabotage, electoral violence, election violence

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The Enemy at Home: Exploring the Social Roots of Criminal Organizations in Mexico

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 04 Aug 2012
Beatriz Magaloni, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Vidal Romero and Aila M. Matanock
Stanford University - Department of Political Science, Stanford University, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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Crime, Violence, Mexico

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Bullets for Ballots: Electoral Participation Provisions and Enduring Peace after Civil Conflict

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 08 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2017
Aila M. Matanock
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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Settlements, Peace Agreements, Civil Conflict, Civil War, Post-Conflict Elections, Electoral Participation Provisions, Rebel Participation, Rebel Parties, El Salvador

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Considering Concessions: A Survey Experiment on the Colombian Peace Process

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2018
Aila M. Matanock and Natalia Garbiras-Díaz
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science and University of California, Berkeley, Department of Political Science
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Colombia, FARC, Peace Process, Post-Conflict Elections, Public Support, Survey Experiment

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Does Counterinsurgent Success Match Social Support? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Colombia

APSA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 25 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2018
Aila M. Matanock and Miguel Garcia-Sanchez
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science and Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
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Popular support, Military, Preference falsification, List experiment, Colombia

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How Does International Intervention Work? A Mechanism for Securing Peace Settlements in Civil Conflicts

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2018
Aila M. Matanock and Adam Lichtenheld
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science and University of California, Berkeley, College of Letters & Science, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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Civil conflict, intrastate war, peace agreement, settlement, international intervention, peacekeeping, United Nations

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The Colombian Paradox: Peace Processes, Elite Divisions, and Popular Plebiscites

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 07 Mar 2017
Aila M. Matanock and Miguel Garcia-Sanchez
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science and Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
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Colombia, Peace Process, Settlement, Plebiscite, Referendum, Survey, Public Opinion, Elite Cues, Santos, Uribe

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External Engagement: Explaining the Spread of Electoral Participation Provisions in Civil Conflict Settlements

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2018
Aila M. Matanock
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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Settlements, Peace Agreements, Civil Conflict, Civil War, Post-Conflict Elections, Electoral Participation Provisions, Rebel Participation, Rebel Parties, Guatemala

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Governance Delegation Agreements: Shared Sovereignty as a Substitute for Limited Statehood

Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, 6 Jan 2014
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2014
Aila M. Matanock
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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Governance Delegation Agreements, Shared Sovereignty, Statebuilding, Melanesia, Guatemala, CICIG

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How International Actors Help Enforce Domestic Deals

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 15 May 2018
Aila M. Matanock
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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reversion problems, conditional incentives, systemized spotlights, incumbents, credible commitment problems, post-conflict elections, peace agreements, democratic transitions, electoral integrity, human rights, El Salvador

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Learning to Share: Explaining the Conditions Under Which States Delegate Governance

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Sep 2009
Aila M. Matanock
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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weak states, sovereignty, governance, fragile states, Melanesia, external actors, delegation, intervention

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How Does Peacekeeping Held Secure Post-Conflict Peace?

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 23 Jul 2018
Aila M. Matanock and Adam Lichtenheld
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science and University of California, Berkeley, College of Letters & Science, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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Third-Party Policymakers and the Limits of the Influence of Indicators

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2019
Melissa Lee and Aila M. Matanock
Princeton University and University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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The Empiricists' Insurgency

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The Empiricists' Insurgency

NBER Working Paper No. w21061
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Apr 2015
Eli Berman and Aila M. Matanock
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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The Empiricists' Insurgency

Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 18, pp. 443-464, 2015
Posted: 12 May 2015
Eli Berman and Aila M. Matanock
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science

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Using Violence, Seeking Votes: Introducing the Militant Group Electoral Participation (MGEP) Dataset

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Jul 2018
Aila M. Matanock
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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How Elections Can Lead to Peace

Posted: 23 Jul 2018
Aila M. Matanock
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science

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Candidates and Combatants: Why Do Simultaneous Electoral and Armed Campaigns Occur?

Posted: 18 Jan 2018
Aila M. Matanock and David A. Dow
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science and Duke University - Department of Political Science

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Sharing Sovereignty in State-Building: Explaining “Invited Interventions”

APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper, American Political Science Association 2013 Annual Meeting
Posted: 27 Jun 2014
Aila M. Matanock
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science

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