Elise Pizzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1494540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elise Pizzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elise |
| FAMILY NAME | Pizzi |
| SIGNATURE | PIZZI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4217-4303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How Border Disputes Influence Disaster Response
This study examines how governments, international actors (states and international organizations), and non-state actors (non-governmental organizations) respond to disasters, focusing on whether response is distinct in border areas, in areas with ongoing territorial claims, and in areas with settled borders. The theory considers the role of state capacity and strategic importance of geographic areas to help understand whether and how government …
The language policies of ethnic autonomous regions
Official language recognition and language of education are often contentious in plural societies. Ethnic regional autonomy (ERA) enables local language policies. We examine official language status, language of instruction and compulsory language learning in 135 ERAs in 31 countries. We find titular ethnic languages are more likely to have official status in regions with larger titular ethnic populations. Titular ethnic languages are more likely…
A Text Analysis of News Media Framing of Government Response to the 2023 Türkiye–Syria Earthquake
The February 2023 Türkiye–Syria Earthquake had a profound impact on political, economic, and social life in Türkiye. Despite criticism about government disaster response, the government of Türkiye won an election 3 months later. We examine variance in media coverage of government disaster responses with Structural Topic Modeling of 12,268 articles in five pro‐ and anti‐government newspapers in Türkiye (Anadolu Ajansi, Hurriyet, Sozcu, Cumhuriyet,…
Patterns of government disaster policy response in Peru
Does government response to natural disasters explain violence? The case of the Sendero Luminoso and conflict in Peru
Objective We consider how the Peruvian government's responses to natural disaster events shaped political violence patterns from 1989 to 2020. Methods We gather data on government disaster response and compare the effect of positive disaster responses, such as reconstruction and regulation of domestic/international aid, and negative disaster responses, such as neglect or placing restrictions on movement near the affected areas, on violent conflic…
Policy adoption and diffusion during the Covid-19 crisis
During the COVID-19 crisis, what explains the variation in policy adoptionamong Chinese provincial governments? To answer this question, we gathered data on twenty-five COVID-19 containment policies used in China from 31 December 2019 to 18 March 2020. We conducted state-of-the-art multilevel pooled event history analysis to allow us to control for policy heterogeneity. Our results demonstrate that variation in policy adoption during the crisis l…
Liu, Amy H. The Language of Political Incorporation: Chinese Migrants in Europe
A spatial-based explanation for institutional trust in Georgia: Evidence from the maternal healthcare system
When an institution is not easily accessible—for example, it is geographically far—it can be hard for institutional trust to develop. The institution is not only unavailable, but it can also be seen as inappropriate, non-affordable, unapproachable, and unacceptable. In this paper, we examine whether reducing distance to medical facilities and professionals can improve trust in the maternal healthcare system. We do so by focusing on developments i…
Does Governmental Policy Shape Migration Decisions? The Case of China’s Hukou System
Does governmental policy shape potential migrants’ destination choices? Chinese cities use the household registration ( hukou) system to adjust the barriers to gaining local status and access to public services and social welfare benefits. We draw on a nationally representative survey of migrants and an original survey experiment to test the effect of hukou-related barriers and benefits on the relative appeal of different destination cities. We f…
Strategic Targeting: The Islamic State and Use of Violence in Iraq and Syria
What explains the specific location of Islamic State attacks in Syria and Iraq? We consider how both ethnic and economic factors shape the group’s decision-making about where to attack. We explore these competing motivations using spatial analysis of the Islamic State’s individual acts of violence from 2013–2017. We find that both areas with ethnic heterogeneity and valuable economic rents are associated with more individual Islamic State violent…
Managed Mobilization: Ethnic Identity and Political Participation in China
How does ethnic identity affect political participation in China? The Chinese government gathers information and shapes public opinion through mass mobilization. These efforts include the managed mobilization of politically sensitive ethnic minorities. We draw on a dataset of the preferred political activities among 8,000 individuals in China, including more than 1,500 ethnic minority group members and find that politically sensitive minority gro…
Natural Disasters, Forced Migration, and Conflict: The Importance of Government Policy Responses
Understanding the connections between environmental change, migration, and conflict is urgent as natural disasters increase in frequency and intensity. Countries that experience natural disasters face greater risks for intrastate conflicts, especially for rapid-onset disasters. Migration is one response to these environmental changes. Existing literature suggests that environmental migration can cause violent conflict as migrants lose livelihoods…
Ethnicity and Government Provision of Drinking Water Infrastructure in Rural China
What areas of the country does the Chinese government prioritize for drinking water provision infrastructure? Chinese policy prioritizes ethnic minorities and minority autonomous areas due to concerns about inequality and interethnic harmony. However, the implementation is not always equitable or favorable for ethnic minorities. Drawing on a new data set of more than 10,000 drinking water projects, I explore how ethnicity and autonomy influence p…
Governance and Water Progress for the Rural Poor
While the world succeeded in meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people without access to improved water sources, many were left behind. As the new Sustainable Development Goals aim to reach universal access by 2030, this article assesses the shortcomings of the MDG s and identifies factors that explain progress for the hardest to reach: the rural poor. The article draws on newly available data on water access by weal…
The Language of Economic Growth: A New Measure of Linguistic Heterogeneity
Conventional wisdom holds that languages, as ethnic markers, build communities with shared preferences and strong social networks. Consequently, ethnolinguistic homogeneity can facilitate growth. This article challenges this conception of language as a cultural marker. It argues that language is also a practical vehicle of communication; people can be multilingual, and second languages can be learned. Hence language boundaries are neither (1) con…
Does Labor Migration Improve Access to Public Goods in Source Communities? Evidence from Rural China
Drivers of adaptation: Responses to weather- and climate-related hazards in 60 local governments in the Intermountain Western U.S
Cities are key sites of action for adaptation to climate change. However, there are a wide variety of responses to hazards at the municipal level. Why do communities take adaptive action in the face of weather- and climate-related risk? We studied what cities are doing in response to existing natural hazards, such as floods, droughts, and blizzards as an analog for understanding the drivers of adaptive behavior toward climate change risks. We con…
Local Fights in National Conflicts: Understanding the Location of Conflict Events during Intrastate Conflict
How do rebel groups determine their targets during intrastate conflict? We build upon two competing theories in conflict studies that emphasize either the social or economic determinants of violence during war and use geographic information systems (GIS) analysis to explore these competing theories. To do this, we utilize a subnational analysis of the most likely case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to understand whether ethnicity or natu…
Natural Disasters, Forced Migration, and Conflict: The Importance of Government Policy Responses
Understanding the connections between environmental change, migration, and conflict is urgent as natural disasters increase in frequency and intensity. Countries that experience natural disasters face greater risks for intrastate conflicts, especially for rapid-onset disasters. Migration is one response to these environmental changes. Existing literature suggests that environmental migration can cause violent conflict as migrants lose livelihoods…
The Language of Economic Growth: A New Measure of Linguistic Heterogeneity
Conventional wisdom holds that languages, as ethnic markers, build communities with shared preferences and strong social networks. Consequently, ethnolinguistic homogeneity can facilitate growth. This article challenges this conception of language as a cultural marker. It argues that language is also a practical vehicle of communication; people can be multilingual, and second languages can be learned. Hence language boundaries are neither (1) con…
Drivers of adaptation: Responses to weather- and climate-related hazards in 60 local governments in the Intermountain Western U.S
Cities are key sites of action for adaptation to climate change. However, there are a wide variety of responses to hazards at the municipal level. Why do communities take adaptive action in the face of weather- and climate-related risk? We studied what cities are doing in response to existing natural hazards, such as floods, droughts, and blizzards as an analog for understanding the drivers of adaptive behavior toward climate change risks. We con…
Does Governmental Policy Shape Migration Decisions? The Case of China’s Hukou System
Does governmental policy shape potential migrants’ destination choices? Chinese cities use the household registration ( hukou) system to adjust the barriers to gaining local status and access to public services and social welfare benefits. We draw on a nationally representative survey of migrants and an original survey experiment to test the effect of hukou-related barriers and benefits on the relative appeal of different destination cities. We f…
A Text Analysis of News Media Framing of Government Response to the 2023 Türkiye–Syria Earthquake
The February 2023 Türkiye–Syria Earthquake had a profound impact on political, economic, and social life in Türkiye. Despite criticism about government disaster response, the government of Türkiye won an election 3 months later. We examine variance in media coverage of government disaster responses with Structural Topic Modeling of 12,268 articles in five pro‐ and anti‐government newspapers in Türkiye (Anadolu Ajansi, Hurriyet, Sozcu, Cumhuriyet,…
Patterns of government disaster policy response in Peru
Does government response to natural disasters explain violence? The case of the Sendero Luminoso and conflict in Peru
Objective We consider how the Peruvian government's responses to natural disaster events shaped political violence patterns from 1989 to 2020. Methods We gather data on government disaster response and compare the effect of positive disaster responses, such as reconstruction and regulation of domestic/international aid, and negative disaster responses, such as neglect or placing restrictions on movement near the affected areas, on violent conflic…
Strategic Targeting: The Islamic State and Use of Violence in Iraq and Syria
What explains the specific location of Islamic State attacks in Syria and Iraq? We consider how both ethnic and economic factors shape the group’s decision-making about where to attack. We explore these competing motivations using spatial analysis of the Islamic State’s individual acts of violence from 2013–2017. We find that both areas with ethnic heterogeneity and valuable economic rents are associated with more individual Islamic State violent…
Local Fights in National Conflicts: Understanding the Location of Conflict Events during Intrastate Conflict
How do rebel groups determine their targets during intrastate conflict? We build upon two competing theories in conflict studies that emphasize either the social or economic determinants of violence during war and use geographic information systems (GIS) analysis to explore these competing theories. To do this, we utilize a subnational analysis of the most likely case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to understand whether ethnicity or natu…
Drivers of adaptation: Responses to weather- and climate-related hazards in 60 local governments in the Intermountain Western U.S
Cities are key sites of action for adaptation to climate change. However, there are a wide variety of responses to hazards at the municipal level. Why do communities take adaptive action in the face of weather- and climate-related risk? We studied what cities are doing in response to existing natural hazards, such as floods, droughts, and blizzards as an analog for understanding the drivers of adaptive behavior toward climate change risks. We con…
Governance and Water Progress for the Rural Poor
While the world succeeded in meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people without access to improved water sources, many were left behind. As the new Sustainable Development Goals aim to reach universal access by 2030, this article assesses the shortcomings of the MDG s and identifies factors that explain progress for the hardest to reach: the rural poor. The article draws on newly available data on water access by weal…
The Language of Economic Growth: A New Measure of Linguistic Heterogeneity
Conventional wisdom holds that languages, as ethnic markers, build communities with shared preferences and strong social networks. Consequently, ethnolinguistic homogeneity can facilitate growth. This article challenges this conception of language as a cultural marker. It argues that language is also a practical vehicle of communication; people can be multilingual, and second languages can be learned. Hence language boundaries are neither (1) con…
Does Labor Migration Improve Access to Public Goods in Source Communities? Evidence from Rural China
Natural Disasters, Forced Migration, and Conflict: The Importance of Government Policy Responses
Understanding the connections between environmental change, migration, and conflict is urgent as natural disasters increase in frequency and intensity. Countries that experience natural disasters face greater risks for intrastate conflicts, especially for rapid-onset disasters. Migration is one response to these environmental changes. Existing literature suggests that environmental migration can cause violent conflict as migrants lose livelihoods…
Ethnicity and Government Provision of Drinking Water Infrastructure in Rural China
What areas of the country does the Chinese government prioritize for drinking water provision infrastructure? Chinese policy prioritizes ethnic minorities and minority autonomous areas due to concerns about inequality and interethnic harmony. However, the implementation is not always equitable or favorable for ethnic minorities. Drawing on a new data set of more than 10,000 drinking water projects, I explore how ethnicity and autonomy influence p…
Managed Mobilization: Ethnic Identity and Political Participation in China
How does ethnic identity affect political participation in China? The Chinese government gathers information and shapes public opinion through mass mobilization. These efforts include the managed mobilization of politically sensitive ethnic minorities. We draw on a dataset of the preferred political activities among 8,000 individuals in China, including more than 1,500 ethnic minority group members and find that politically sensitive minority gro…
Policy adoption and diffusion during the Covid-19 crisis
During the COVID-19 crisis, what explains the variation in policy adoptionamong Chinese provincial governments? To answer this question, we gathered data on twenty-five COVID-19 containment policies used in China from 31 December 2019 to 18 March 2020. We conducted state-of-the-art multilevel pooled event history analysis to allow us to control for policy heterogeneity. Our results demonstrate that variation in policy adoption during the crisis l…
Liu, Amy H. The Language of Political Incorporation: Chinese Migrants in Europe
A spatial-based explanation for institutional trust in Georgia: Evidence from the maternal healthcare system
When an institution is not easily accessible—for example, it is geographically far—it can be hard for institutional trust to develop. The institution is not only unavailable, but it can also be seen as inappropriate, non-affordable, unapproachable, and unacceptable. In this paper, we examine whether reducing distance to medical facilities and professionals can improve trust in the maternal healthcare system. We do so by focusing on developments i…
Does Governmental Policy Shape Migration Decisions? The Case of China’s Hukou System
Does governmental policy shape potential migrants’ destination choices? Chinese cities use the household registration ( hukou) system to adjust the barriers to gaining local status and access to public services and social welfare benefits. We draw on a nationally representative survey of migrants and an original survey experiment to test the effect of hukou-related barriers and benefits on the relative appeal of different destination cities. We f…
Strategic Targeting: The Islamic State and Use of Violence in Iraq and Syria
What explains the specific location of Islamic State attacks in Syria and Iraq? We consider how both ethnic and economic factors shape the group’s decision-making about where to attack. We explore these competing motivations using spatial analysis of the Islamic State’s individual acts of violence from 2013–2017. We find that both areas with ethnic heterogeneity and valuable economic rents are associated with more individual Islamic State violent…
Patterns of government disaster policy response in Peru
Does government response to natural disasters explain violence? The case of the Sendero Luminoso and conflict in Peru
Objective We consider how the Peruvian government's responses to natural disaster events shaped political violence patterns from 1989 to 2020. Methods We gather data on government disaster response and compare the effect of positive disaster responses, such as reconstruction and regulation of domestic/international aid, and negative disaster responses, such as neglect or placing restrictions on movement near the affected areas, on violent conflic…
A Text Analysis of News Media Framing of Government Response to the 2023 Türkiye–Syria Earthquake
The February 2023 Türkiye–Syria Earthquake had a profound impact on political, economic, and social life in Türkiye. Despite criticism about government disaster response, the government of Türkiye won an election 3 months later. We examine variance in media coverage of government disaster responses with Structural Topic Modeling of 12,268 articles in five pro‐ and anti‐government newspapers in Türkiye (Anadolu Ajansi, Hurriyet, Sozcu, Cumhuriyet,…
How Border Disputes Influence Disaster Response
This study examines how governments, international actors (states and international organizations), and non-state actors (non-governmental organizations) respond to disasters, focusing on whether response is distinct in border areas, in areas with ongoing territorial claims, and in areas with settled borders. The theory considers the role of state capacity and strategic importance of geographic areas to help understand whether and how government …
The language policies of ethnic autonomous regions
Official language recognition and language of education are often contentious in plural societies. Ethnic regional autonomy (ERA) enables local language policies. We examine official language status, language of instruction and compulsory language learning in 135 ERAs in 31 countries. We find titular ethnic languages are more likely to have official status in regions with larger titular ethnic populations. Titular ethnic languages are more likely…
Political science (14 works) · Economics (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Government (linguistics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 works) · Development economics (5 works)