Shannon P Carcelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 2579555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon P Carcelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon P |
| FAMILY NAME | Carcelli |
| SIGNATURE | CARCELLI S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8777-8218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Political Geography of Sanctions Support: Evidence From Kazakhstan
Economic sanctions have become an increasingly prominent tool in twenty first-century statecraft. However, it is relatively easy for third-party states to undermine their effectiveness. This vulnerability makes it important to understand how and why their local publics support or oppose sanctions. Drawing from the case of Kazahkstan’s response to the global sanctions regime against Russia, we find that support for the sanctions varies based on et…
The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing a New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies
This paper introduces new data on the creation of subsidiary bodies (SBs) by members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) between 1972 and 2020. Delegation to SBs is one of the principal means through which the UNSC acts, and these bodies are designed to carry out crucial functions such as peacekeeping, implementing sanctions, and investigating crises. Yet, no research has systematically evaluated their creation, design, and use. Our dat…
Introducing ICBe: An Event Extraction Dataset From Narratives About International Crises
How do international crises unfold? We conceptualize international relations as a strategic chess game between adversaries and develop a systematic way to measure pieces, moves, and gambits accurately and consistently over a hundred years of history. We introduce a new ontology and dataset of international events called ICBe based on a very high-quality corpus of narratives from the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Project. We demonstrate that…
Bureaucracy at the Border: The Fragmentation of United States Foreign Aid
Foreign policy scholars often assume that leaders pursue a national interest. However, states often spread their foreign policy authority thinly across bureaucracies and programs with overlapping or conflicting interests. This is especially pronounced in foreign aid, which serves a clear foreign policy purpose but is often mired in bureaucracy. Why is foreign aid often so fragmented? Focusing on the United States, I explain foreign aid fragmentat…
Partisanship in the Trump Trade War: Evidence from County-Level Crop Planting Data
s In 2018, the US–China trade war drove down the price of many US agricultural goods. While many farmers responded by planting alternative crops instead, others continued planting the low-value crops, with a high cost to their bottom line and resulting in a large number of agricultural bankruptcies. Why did some farmers disregard their own economic interests and plant low-value crops during the trade war? We argue that political preferences parti…
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements
Why do some states comply with international agreements while others flout them? In this article, I introduce a previously unconsidered explanation: bureaucratic structure. I develop a rational choice model examining the impact of bureaucratic structure on compliance, suggesting that the existence of several distinct bureaucracies can mute compliance with an international agreement by insulating some bureaucrats from pressure to comply. I examine…
Special Interests in Foreign Policy Bureaucracies: Evidence from Foreign Aid
Effective foreign policy necessitates a well-functioning bureaucracy. However, many states fragment foreign policy authority to bureaucratic actors with little interest or expertise in foreign affairs, such as labor, agricultural, and commerce ministries. This is especially common in foreign aid, where research suggests that fragmentation can be deleterious. Why do some states allow their foreign aid bureaucracy to become fragmented? I suggest th…
Congressional polarization and limitation riders in foreign aid appropriations
Aiding and Abetting: U.S. Foreign Assistance and State Violence
Signaling in Foreign Policy
Costly signaling offers a solution to many foreign policy dilemmas. Though most commonly studied in the context of the bargaining theory of war, signaling can also play an important role in nonzero-sum interactions such as those characterized by chicken (e.g., nuclear deterrence) and the prisoner’s dilemma (e.g., tariff reductions). A rich game theoretic literature explains how actors can signal credibly in these situations. The most prominent st…
Digit ratio (2D): (4D) and social integration: An effect of prenatal sex hormones
The position people occupy in their social and professional networks is related to their social status and has strong effects on their access to social resources. While attainment of particular positions is driven by behavioral traits, many biological factors predispose individuals to certain behaviors and motivations. Prior work on exposure to fetal androgens (measured by second-to-fourth digit ratio, 2D:4D) shows that it correlates with behavio…
Special Interests in Foreign Policy Bureaucracies: Evidence from Foreign Aid
Effective foreign policy necessitates a well-functioning bureaucracy. However, many states fragment foreign policy authority to bureaucratic actors with little interest or expertise in foreign affairs, such as labor, agricultural, and commerce ministries. This is especially common in foreign aid, where research suggests that fragmentation can be deleterious. Why do some states allow their foreign aid bureaucracy to become fragmented? I suggest th…
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements
Why do some states comply with international agreements while others flout them? In this article, I introduce a previously unconsidered explanation: bureaucratic structure. I develop a rational choice model examining the impact of bureaucratic structure on compliance, suggesting that the existence of several distinct bureaucracies can mute compliance with an international agreement by insulating some bureaucrats from pressure to comply. I examine…
Congressional polarization and limitation riders in foreign aid appropriations
Bureaucracy at the Border: The Fragmentation of United States Foreign Aid
Foreign policy scholars often assume that leaders pursue a national interest. However, states often spread their foreign policy authority thinly across bureaucracies and programs with overlapping or conflicting interests. This is especially pronounced in foreign aid, which serves a clear foreign policy purpose but is often mired in bureaucracy. Why is foreign aid often so fragmented? Focusing on the United States, I explain foreign aid fragmentat…
Partisanship in the Trump Trade War: Evidence from County-Level Crop Planting Data
s In 2018, the US–China trade war drove down the price of many US agricultural goods. While many farmers responded by planting alternative crops instead, others continued planting the low-value crops, with a high cost to their bottom line and resulting in a large number of agricultural bankruptcies. Why did some farmers disregard their own economic interests and plant low-value crops during the trade war? We argue that political preferences parti…
Signaling in Foreign Policy
Costly signaling offers a solution to many foreign policy dilemmas. Though most commonly studied in the context of the bargaining theory of war, signaling can also play an important role in nonzero-sum interactions such as those characterized by chicken (e.g., nuclear deterrence) and the prisoner’s dilemma (e.g., tariff reductions). A rich game theoretic literature explains how actors can signal credibly in these situations. The most prominent st…
Digit ratio (2D): (4D) and social integration: An effect of prenatal sex hormones
The position people occupy in their social and professional networks is related to their social status and has strong effects on their access to social resources. While attainment of particular positions is driven by behavioral traits, many biological factors predispose individuals to certain behaviors and motivations. Prior work on exposure to fetal androgens (measured by second-to-fourth digit ratio, 2D:4D) shows that it correlates with behavio…
Congressional polarization and limitation riders in foreign aid appropriations
Aiding and Abetting: U.S. Foreign Assistance and State Violence
Special Interests in Foreign Policy Bureaucracies: Evidence from Foreign Aid
Effective foreign policy necessitates a well-functioning bureaucracy. However, many states fragment foreign policy authority to bureaucratic actors with little interest or expertise in foreign affairs, such as labor, agricultural, and commerce ministries. This is especially common in foreign aid, where research suggests that fragmentation can be deleterious. Why do some states allow their foreign aid bureaucracy to become fragmented? I suggest th…
The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing a New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies
This paper introduces new data on the creation of subsidiary bodies (SBs) by members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) between 1972 and 2020. Delegation to SBs is one of the principal means through which the UNSC acts, and these bodies are designed to carry out crucial functions such as peacekeeping, implementing sanctions, and investigating crises. Yet, no research has systematically evaluated their creation, design, and use. Our dat…
Introducing ICBe: An Event Extraction Dataset From Narratives About International Crises
How do international crises unfold? We conceptualize international relations as a strategic chess game between adversaries and develop a systematic way to measure pieces, moves, and gambits accurately and consistently over a hundred years of history. We introduce a new ontology and dataset of international events called ICBe based on a very high-quality corpus of narratives from the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Project. We demonstrate that…
Bureaucracy at the Border: The Fragmentation of United States Foreign Aid
Foreign policy scholars often assume that leaders pursue a national interest. However, states often spread their foreign policy authority thinly across bureaucracies and programs with overlapping or conflicting interests. This is especially pronounced in foreign aid, which serves a clear foreign policy purpose but is often mired in bureaucracy. Why is foreign aid often so fragmented? Focusing on the United States, I explain foreign aid fragmentat…
Partisanship in the Trump Trade War: Evidence from County-Level Crop Planting Data
s In 2018, the US–China trade war drove down the price of many US agricultural goods. While many farmers responded by planting alternative crops instead, others continued planting the low-value crops, with a high cost to their bottom line and resulting in a large number of agricultural bankruptcies. Why did some farmers disregard their own economic interests and plant low-value crops during the trade war? We argue that political preferences parti…
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements
Why do some states comply with international agreements while others flout them? In this article, I introduce a previously unconsidered explanation: bureaucratic structure. I develop a rational choice model examining the impact of bureaucratic structure on compliance, suggesting that the existence of several distinct bureaucracies can mute compliance with an international agreement by insulating some bureaucrats from pressure to comply. I examine…
The Political Geography of Sanctions Support: Evidence From Kazakhstan
Economic sanctions have become an increasingly prominent tool in twenty first-century statecraft. However, it is relatively easy for third-party states to undermine their effectiveness. This vulnerability makes it important to understand how and why their local publics support or oppose sanctions. Drawing from the case of Kazahkstan’s response to the global sanctions regime against Russia, we find that support for the sanctions varies based on et…
Political science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · International Development and Aid (5 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (5 works) · Foreign policy (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (4 works)