John F Mccauley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1143225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John F Mccauley |
| GIVEN NAMES | John F |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccauley |
| SIGNATURE | MCCAULEY J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1349-1489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Influential but Unwanted: Chinese and US FDI in Africa
Comparative studies of foreign direct investment (FDI) infrequently consider how FDI projects from rival powers are evaluated by local citizens. Research also does not explicitly distinguish the influence from the affinity that accrues to investing countries. Recognizing the importance of both influence and affinity, this study examines how citizens react when firms from major foreign powers – and from their prominent rival – invest locally. Usin…
Flood risk and household losses: Empirical findings from a rural community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
This study evaluates the effects of household-level flood risk on post-flood losses in Pakistan. Pakistan experienced devastating flooding, leading to numerous fatalities, extensive destruction of homes, and millions of displaced or otherwise affected individuals. Using survey data from households in Chitral District, we apply indicators from the literature on exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to generate actual vulnerability scores fo…
Where Terror Lies: Misrepresentation of Extremist Attitudes and Terrorist Attacks in the Sahel
Researchers have commonly treated misrepresentations in survey responses as an impediment to the accurate measurement of a variable or construct of substantive importance. This study builds on that approach and considers whether misreporting bias regarding support for violent extremism—both under- and over-reporting—may then have consequences for how terrorist violence itself unfolds. Using data from nearly 4,000 respondents in 35 communes in Bur…
Foreign Direct Investment, Unmet Expectations, and the Prospects of Political Leaders: Evidence from Chinese Investment in Africa
Leaders in the developing world typically value inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), on the logic that FDI bolsters economic development and signals competence to voters. Yet the promise of new jobs and other benefits may outstrip the supply, leaving many disappointed. We present a theory of unmet expectations and political blame, which we test by connecting 223 georeferenced Chinese FDI projects to the political-economic perceptions of 17…
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development
Clientelism and Community Support in Times of Crisis: Evidence Following Floods in Ghana
Community Violence and Support for Violent Extremism: Evidence From the Sahel
This article examines the effects of exposure to communal violence on support for violent religious extremism. We argue that in communities with high levels of reported violence, individuals lose political and social trust, develop exclusionary attitudes towards outgroups, and find appeal in nonconventional, black‐or‐white religious teachings, all of which can promote support for extremist violence. Using survey data from over 17,000 respondents …
Yardangs
Yardangs are perhaps, the most neglected and misunderstood of the Earth’s landforms. The existence of large fields of yardangs ranging from meters to kilometers in length is not well known to American geologists. In the United States many early workers overstated the role of the wind in landscape development, leaving a legacy of uncertainty about the effectiveness of the wind as an agent of surface sculpture. Yardangs were first described along t…
The grapevine effect in sensitive data collection: Examining Response Patterns in Support for Violent Extremism
This study presents a pattern overlooked in previous research on measuring sensitive political outcomes: over the course of data collection, responses tend to shift in the direction of support for the local incumbent power. We suggest that, whereas earlier responses are largely devoid of this social desirability bias, word of the research spreads across enumeration areas, and individuals interviewed later in the process alter their responses out …
The Political Sources of Religious Identification: Evidence from the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire Border
Under what conditions does religion become a salient social identity? By measuring religious attachment among the people living astride the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire border in West Africa, an arbitrary boundary that exposes otherwise similar individuals to different political contexts, this article makes a case for the importance of the political environment in affecting the weight that people attach to their religious identities. After ruling o…
The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa
This book explains why conflicts in Africa are sometimes ethnic and sometimes religious, and why a conflict might change from ethnic to religious even as the opponents remain fixed. Conflicts in the region are often viewed as either 'tribal' or 'Muslim-Christian', seemingly rooted in deep-seated ethnic or religious hatreds. Yet, as this book explains, those labels emerge as a function of political mobilization. It argues that ethnicity and religi…
Disaggregating Identities to Study Ethnic Conflict
Research has shown that competition over resources, overlapping identity cleavages, and weak state institutions constitute important causal determinants of ethnic violence. Critical in identifying those factors have been research innovations that treat ethnic identities as political tools rather than primordial divisions. Thus, theoretical developments that consider ethnicity to be fluid and constructed, data sets that account for the actual poli…
African Borders as Sources of Natural Experiments Promise and Pitfalls
Africa’s arbitrary country borders have been seized upon as sources of “natural experiments”: having randomly assigned people to different country treatments, differences in outcomes on either side of the border can then be attributed to the institutions, demographics, or policies put in place in each country. While methodologically attractive, the use of African borders as sources of natural experiments presents several potential pitfalls. We de…
Measuring and Reducing Religious Bias in Post‐Conflict Zones: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire
This article explores how religious bias, once it has been cultivated through politicization and violence, can be reduced. Using foundations from social identity theory and superordinate goal theory, I develop post‐conflict bias reduction strategies that include competing types of superordinate messages, economic and theological, as well as different sources of those messages. To test these strategies, I use video‐based information treatments cou…
Pentecostalism as an Informal Political Institution: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Informal institutions continue to govern political exchange in Africa, but the traditional, ethnic-based form of “big man rule” is now threatened by an alternative informal institution — charismatic Pentecostalism. This study evaluates the status of Pentecostalism empirically, in a micro-level experiment in Ghana. Using data from a variant of the dictator game, in which participants divide a resource endowment with randomly assigned partners as w…
The Political Mobilization of Ethnic and Religious Identities in Africa
When elites mobilize supporters according to different cleavages, or when individuals realign themselves along new identity lines, do their political preferences change? Scholars have focused predominantly on the size of potential coalitions that leaders construct, to the exclusion of other changes that might occur when one or another identity type is made salient. In this article, I argue that changes in the salience of ethnicity and religion in…
Economic Development Strategies and Communal Violence in Africa: The Cases of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
This article explores the relationship between economic development strategies and conflict outcomes in Africa, using a comparison of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Findings suggest that development strategies that create contestation for resources along identity group lines, absent provisions for co-opting disenfranchised groups, increase the likelihood of communal violence, whereas development plans that transcend ascriptive social identities bear th…
Africa's new big man rule? Pentecostalism and patronage in Ghana
Journal Article Africa's new big man rule? Pentecostalism and patronage in Ghana Get access John F. McCauley John F. McCauley * *John F. McCauley ([email protected]) is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, USA. An earlier version of the article was presented at the Nigeria Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies (NCPCS) Conference, Abuja, Nigeria, 2012. I thank E. Gyimah-Boadi and Rev. Roland Owusu-A…
Field Notes: A Cross-Border Study in West Africa
No abstract
Neolithic adaptation and the Holocene functioning of Tertiary palaeodrainages in southern Egypt and northern Sudan
The 'radar rivers' of the southern Eastern Sahara are systems of aggraded valleys containing inset drainage channels, now entirely obscured by wind-blown sand in the dry and hostile open desert. These features, first recognized on radar images, are remnants of the very different and moister landscapes of the Pleistocene and early Holocene. Proof of their attraction for early human settlement are the Acheulean artefacts that are found buried in al…
Paleorivers and geoarchaeology in the southern Egyptian Sahara
Interpretation of Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR) images acquired during the November 1981 flight of Columbia led to the idea that a paleodrainage system of regional and perhaps transcontinental proportions crossed southern Egypt and northern Sudan prior to the onset of Quaternary aridity. Three seasons of field investigations in two locales (Wadi Arid and Wadi Safsaf, some 70‐80 km apart) near the Sudan border of southern Egypt confirmed initial int…
Acheulian Sites along the “Radar Rivers,” Southern Egyptian Sahara
The term "radar rivers" refers to almost fully aggraded Tertiary basins and valleys that lie beneath the sand sheet in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. These features were first recognized when radar images produced by the shuttle imaging radar (SIR-A) experiment aboard the November, 1981, flight of the space shuttle Columbia were examined. Field investigations have shown that at least the upper 40 m of these ancient valleys (which are hundreds…
Acheulian Sites along the "Radar Rivers," Southern Egyptian Sahara
William P. McHugh, Carol S. Breed, Gerald G. Schaber, John F. McCauley, Barney J. Szabo, Acheulian Sites along the "Radar Rivers," Southern Egyptian Sahara, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter, 1988), pp. 361-379
Pitted Rocks and Other Ventifacts in the Western Desert
Yardangs of the Western Desert
The Political Mobilization of Ethnic and Religious Identities in Africa
When elites mobilize supporters according to different cleavages, or when individuals realign themselves along new identity lines, do their political preferences change? Scholars have focused predominantly on the size of potential coalitions that leaders construct, to the exclusion of other changes that might occur when one or another identity type is made salient. In this article, I argue that changes in the salience of ethnicity and religion in…
African Borders as Sources of Natural Experiments Promise and Pitfalls
Africa’s arbitrary country borders have been seized upon as sources of “natural experiments”: having randomly assigned people to different country treatments, differences in outcomes on either side of the border can then be attributed to the institutions, demographics, or policies put in place in each country. While methodologically attractive, the use of African borders as sources of natural experiments presents several potential pitfalls. We de…
Africa's new big man rule? Pentecostalism and patronage in Ghana
Journal Article Africa's new big man rule? Pentecostalism and patronage in Ghana Get access John F. McCauley John F. McCauley * *John F. McCauley ([email protected]) is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, USA. An earlier version of the article was presented at the Nigeria Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies (NCPCS) Conference, Abuja, Nigeria, 2012. I thank E. Gyimah-Boadi and Rev. Roland Owusu-A…
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development
Foreign Direct Investment, Unmet Expectations, and the Prospects of Political Leaders: Evidence from Chinese Investment in Africa
Leaders in the developing world typically value inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), on the logic that FDI bolsters economic development and signals competence to voters. Yet the promise of new jobs and other benefits may outstrip the supply, leaving many disappointed. We present a theory of unmet expectations and political blame, which we test by connecting 223 georeferenced Chinese FDI projects to the political-economic perceptions of 17…
Neolithic adaptation and the Holocene functioning of Tertiary palaeodrainages in southern Egypt and northern Sudan
The 'radar rivers' of the southern Eastern Sahara are systems of aggraded valleys containing inset drainage channels, now entirely obscured by wind-blown sand in the dry and hostile open desert. These features, first recognized on radar images, are remnants of the very different and moister landscapes of the Pleistocene and early Holocene. Proof of their attraction for early human settlement are the Acheulean artefacts that are found buried in al…
Community Violence and Support for Violent Extremism: Evidence From the Sahel
This article examines the effects of exposure to communal violence on support for violent religious extremism. We argue that in communities with high levels of reported violence, individuals lose political and social trust, develop exclusionary attitudes towards outgroups, and find appeal in nonconventional, black‐or‐white religious teachings, all of which can promote support for extremist violence. Using survey data from over 17,000 respondents …
The Political Sources of Religious Identification: Evidence from the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire Border
Under what conditions does religion become a salient social identity? By measuring religious attachment among the people living astride the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire border in West Africa, an arbitrary boundary that exposes otherwise similar individuals to different political contexts, this article makes a case for the importance of the political environment in affecting the weight that people attach to their religious identities. After ruling o…
Measuring and Reducing Religious Bias in Post‐Conflict Zones: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire
This article explores how religious bias, once it has been cultivated through politicization and violence, can be reduced. Using foundations from social identity theory and superordinate goal theory, I develop post‐conflict bias reduction strategies that include competing types of superordinate messages, economic and theological, as well as different sources of those messages. To test these strategies, I use video‐based information treatments cou…
Pentecostalism as an Informal Political Institution: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Informal institutions continue to govern political exchange in Africa, but the traditional, ethnic-based form of “big man rule” is now threatened by an alternative informal institution — charismatic Pentecostalism. This study evaluates the status of Pentecostalism empirically, in a micro-level experiment in Ghana. Using data from a variant of the dictator game, in which participants divide a resource endowment with randomly assigned partners as w…
Paleorivers and geoarchaeology in the southern Egyptian Sahara
Interpretation of Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR) images acquired during the November 1981 flight of Columbia led to the idea that a paleodrainage system of regional and perhaps transcontinental proportions crossed southern Egypt and northern Sudan prior to the onset of Quaternary aridity. Three seasons of field investigations in two locales (Wadi Arid and Wadi Safsaf, some 70‐80 km apart) near the Sudan border of southern Egypt confirmed initial int…
The grapevine effect in sensitive data collection: Examining Response Patterns in Support for Violent Extremism
This study presents a pattern overlooked in previous research on measuring sensitive political outcomes: over the course of data collection, responses tend to shift in the direction of support for the local incumbent power. We suggest that, whereas earlier responses are largely devoid of this social desirability bias, word of the research spreads across enumeration areas, and individuals interviewed later in the process alter their responses out …
Disaggregating Identities to Study Ethnic Conflict
Research has shown that competition over resources, overlapping identity cleavages, and weak state institutions constitute important causal determinants of ethnic violence. Critical in identifying those factors have been research innovations that treat ethnic identities as political tools rather than primordial divisions. Thus, theoretical developments that consider ethnicity to be fluid and constructed, data sets that account for the actual poli…
Economic Development Strategies and Communal Violence in Africa: The Cases of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
This article explores the relationship between economic development strategies and conflict outcomes in Africa, using a comparison of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Findings suggest that development strategies that create contestation for resources along identity group lines, absent provisions for co-opting disenfranchised groups, increase the likelihood of communal violence, whereas development plans that transcend ascriptive social identities bear th…
Yardangs of the Western Desert
Pitted Rocks and Other Ventifacts in the Western Desert
Yardangs of the Western Desert
Paleorivers and geoarchaeology in the southern Egyptian Sahara
Interpretation of Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR) images acquired during the November 1981 flight of Columbia led to the idea that a paleodrainage system of regional and perhaps transcontinental proportions crossed southern Egypt and northern Sudan prior to the onset of Quaternary aridity. Three seasons of field investigations in two locales (Wadi Arid and Wadi Safsaf, some 70‐80 km apart) near the Sudan border of southern Egypt confirmed initial int…
Acheulian Sites along the “Radar Rivers,” Southern Egyptian Sahara
The term "radar rivers" refers to almost fully aggraded Tertiary basins and valleys that lie beneath the sand sheet in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. These features were first recognized when radar images produced by the shuttle imaging radar (SIR-A) experiment aboard the November, 1981, flight of the space shuttle Columbia were examined. Field investigations have shown that at least the upper 40 m of these ancient valleys (which are hundreds…
Acheulian Sites along the "Radar Rivers," Southern Egyptian Sahara
William P. McHugh, Carol S. Breed, Gerald G. Schaber, John F. McCauley, Barney J. Szabo, Acheulian Sites along the "Radar Rivers," Southern Egyptian Sahara, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter, 1988), pp. 361-379
Neolithic adaptation and the Holocene functioning of Tertiary palaeodrainages in southern Egypt and northern Sudan
The 'radar rivers' of the southern Eastern Sahara are systems of aggraded valleys containing inset drainage channels, now entirely obscured by wind-blown sand in the dry and hostile open desert. These features, first recognized on radar images, are remnants of the very different and moister landscapes of the Pleistocene and early Holocene. Proof of their attraction for early human settlement are the Acheulean artefacts that are found buried in al…
Field Notes: A Cross-Border Study in West Africa
No abstract
Economic Development Strategies and Communal Violence in Africa: The Cases of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
This article explores the relationship between economic development strategies and conflict outcomes in Africa, using a comparison of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Findings suggest that development strategies that create contestation for resources along identity group lines, absent provisions for co-opting disenfranchised groups, increase the likelihood of communal violence, whereas development plans that transcend ascriptive social identities bear th…
Africa's new big man rule? Pentecostalism and patronage in Ghana
Journal Article Africa's new big man rule? Pentecostalism and patronage in Ghana Get access John F. McCauley John F. McCauley * *John F. McCauley ([email protected]) is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, USA. An earlier version of the article was presented at the Nigeria Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies (NCPCS) Conference, Abuja, Nigeria, 2012. I thank E. Gyimah-Boadi and Rev. Roland Owusu-A…
Measuring and Reducing Religious Bias in Post‐Conflict Zones: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire
This article explores how religious bias, once it has been cultivated through politicization and violence, can be reduced. Using foundations from social identity theory and superordinate goal theory, I develop post‐conflict bias reduction strategies that include competing types of superordinate messages, economic and theological, as well as different sources of those messages. To test these strategies, I use video‐based information treatments cou…
Pentecostalism as an Informal Political Institution: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Informal institutions continue to govern political exchange in Africa, but the traditional, ethnic-based form of “big man rule” is now threatened by an alternative informal institution — charismatic Pentecostalism. This study evaluates the status of Pentecostalism empirically, in a micro-level experiment in Ghana. Using data from a variant of the dictator game, in which participants divide a resource endowment with randomly assigned partners as w…
The Political Mobilization of Ethnic and Religious Identities in Africa
When elites mobilize supporters according to different cleavages, or when individuals realign themselves along new identity lines, do their political preferences change? Scholars have focused predominantly on the size of potential coalitions that leaders construct, to the exclusion of other changes that might occur when one or another identity type is made salient. In this article, I argue that changes in the salience of ethnicity and religion in…
African Borders as Sources of Natural Experiments Promise and Pitfalls
Africa’s arbitrary country borders have been seized upon as sources of “natural experiments”: having randomly assigned people to different country treatments, differences in outcomes on either side of the border can then be attributed to the institutions, demographics, or policies put in place in each country. While methodologically attractive, the use of African borders as sources of natural experiments presents several potential pitfalls. We de…
Disaggregating Identities to Study Ethnic Conflict
Research has shown that competition over resources, overlapping identity cleavages, and weak state institutions constitute important causal determinants of ethnic violence. Critical in identifying those factors have been research innovations that treat ethnic identities as political tools rather than primordial divisions. Thus, theoretical developments that consider ethnicity to be fluid and constructed, data sets that account for the actual poli…
The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa
This book explains why conflicts in Africa are sometimes ethnic and sometimes religious, and why a conflict might change from ethnic to religious even as the opponents remain fixed. Conflicts in the region are often viewed as either 'tribal' or 'Muslim-Christian', seemingly rooted in deep-seated ethnic or religious hatreds. Yet, as this book explains, those labels emerge as a function of political mobilization. It argues that ethnicity and religi…
The Political Sources of Religious Identification: Evidence from the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire Border
Under what conditions does religion become a salient social identity? By measuring religious attachment among the people living astride the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire border in West Africa, an arbitrary boundary that exposes otherwise similar individuals to different political contexts, this article makes a case for the importance of the political environment in affecting the weight that people attach to their religious identities. After ruling o…
Yardangs
Yardangs are perhaps, the most neglected and misunderstood of the Earth’s landforms. The existence of large fields of yardangs ranging from meters to kilometers in length is not well known to American geologists. In the United States many early workers overstated the role of the wind in landscape development, leaving a legacy of uncertainty about the effectiveness of the wind as an agent of surface sculpture. Yardangs were first described along t…
The grapevine effect in sensitive data collection: Examining Response Patterns in Support for Violent Extremism
This study presents a pattern overlooked in previous research on measuring sensitive political outcomes: over the course of data collection, responses tend to shift in the direction of support for the local incumbent power. We suggest that, whereas earlier responses are largely devoid of this social desirability bias, word of the research spreads across enumeration areas, and individuals interviewed later in the process alter their responses out …
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development
Clientelism and Community Support in Times of Crisis: Evidence Following Floods in Ghana
Community Violence and Support for Violent Extremism: Evidence From the Sahel
This article examines the effects of exposure to communal violence on support for violent religious extremism. We argue that in communities with high levels of reported violence, individuals lose political and social trust, develop exclusionary attitudes towards outgroups, and find appeal in nonconventional, black‐or‐white religious teachings, all of which can promote support for extremist violence. Using survey data from over 17,000 respondents …
Foreign Direct Investment, Unmet Expectations, and the Prospects of Political Leaders: Evidence from Chinese Investment in Africa
Leaders in the developing world typically value inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), on the logic that FDI bolsters economic development and signals competence to voters. Yet the promise of new jobs and other benefits may outstrip the supply, leaving many disappointed. We present a theory of unmet expectations and political blame, which we test by connecting 223 georeferenced Chinese FDI projects to the political-economic perceptions of 17…
Flood risk and household losses: Empirical findings from a rural community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
This study evaluates the effects of household-level flood risk on post-flood losses in Pakistan. Pakistan experienced devastating flooding, leading to numerous fatalities, extensive destruction of homes, and millions of displaced or otherwise affected individuals. Using survey data from households in Chitral District, we apply indicators from the literature on exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to generate actual vulnerability scores fo…
Where Terror Lies: Misrepresentation of Extremist Attitudes and Terrorist Attacks in the Sahel
Researchers have commonly treated misrepresentations in survey responses as an impediment to the accurate measurement of a variable or construct of substantive importance. This study builds on that approach and considers whether misreporting bias regarding support for violent extremism—both under- and over-reporting—may then have consequences for how terrorist violence itself unfolds. Using data from nearly 4,000 respondents in 35 communes in Bur…
Influential but Unwanted: Chinese and US FDI in Africa
Comparative studies of foreign direct investment (FDI) infrequently consider how FDI projects from rival powers are evaluated by local citizens. Research also does not explicitly distinguish the influence from the affinity that accrues to investing countries. Recognizing the importance of both influence and affinity, this study examines how citizens react when firms from major foreign powers – and from their prominent rival – invest locally. Usin…
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