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David Siegel
"Repression, Social Networks, and Collective Action"
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201
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David Siegel is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida State University. His research interests include Interests include American politics, comparative politics, international relations, formal and computational methods, political violence, elections, terrorism, and social networks.
Siegel studies the manner in which institutions, both formal and informal, mediate the interactions of people with different motivations. In this way, he explores the ways in which social networks, the media, and electoral institutions parse information and alter the level and the nature of collective action.
Some of Siegel's research provides a qualitative typology of social network structure that can predict levels of participation and the degree of media impact. Other research describes the formation of parties and party identification among voters.
In applying these concepts to political violence, Siegel studies the efficacy and evolution of terrorist organizations, and the degree to which both state and substate repression inhibit participation in collective behavior such as turnout, protest, or rebellion. New projects extend these ideas to the development of institutions in early societies and the formation of social identities.
Siegel is author of "Underfunding in Terrorist Organizations," with Jacob N. Shapiro (International Studies Quarterly, 2007), and "Rational Parties and Retrospective Voters," with Jonathan Bendor and Sunil Kumar, in Topics in Analytical Political Economy, ed. by William Barnett and Melvin J. Hinich (Oxford University Press, 2007). He is currently working on a book project, Behavioral Models of Elections (with Jonathan Bendor, Daniel Diermeier, and Michael Ting), under contract with Princeton University Press.
Siegel received a Ph.D. in Political Economics in 2006 from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
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David Siegel
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Florida State University
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