The Political Geography of Rebellion: Using Event Data to Identify Insurgent Territory, Preferences, and Relocation Patterns.
The increasing availability of event data has led to a surge in micro-level research investigating civil war violence. Event data, however, introduces bias due to systemic underreporting of events. This study introduces a method that accounts for this bias by making a spatial prediction of unreporte...
| Published in: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 62; no. 3; pp. 696 - 708 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2018
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