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

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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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How International Actors Help Enforce Domestic Deals

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How International Actors Help Enforce Domestic Deals

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2020
Aila M. Matanock
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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civil war, elections, human rights, international peacekeepers, international observers, conditional aid, reversion problems, Golidlocks condition, systemic spotlights

How International Actors Help Enforce Domestic Deals

Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 23, pp. 357-383, 2020
Posted: 17 May 2020
Aila M. Matanock
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science

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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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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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Experiments in Post-Conflict Contexts

Advances in Experimental Political Science. Eds. James N. Druckman and Donald P. Green. New York: Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Mar 2020
Aila M. Matanock
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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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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Using Political Cues for Attitude Formation in Post-Conflict Contexts

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 06 May 2020
Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, Miguel A. Garcia-Sanchez and Aila M. Matanock
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Political Science, Independent and University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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peace agreements, elite cues, Colombia, information

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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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Untouchable Forces: Restoring Trust in Security in Weak States?

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 05 May 2020
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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State-building, Delegation Agreements, Courts, CICIG, Guatemala, UN, Survey Experiment

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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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