Dawn Dow
Biographic Data
| ID | 309732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dawn Dow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dawn |
| FAMILY NAME | Dow |
| SIGNATURE | DOW D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Naval Postgraduate School |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6010-4766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
State Absence, Vengeance, and the Logic of Vigilantism in Guatemala
Across the world, citizens sidestep the state to punish offenses on their own. Such vigilantism can help communities provide order, yet it raises concerns about public accountability and the rights of the accused. While prior research has identified the structural correlates of vigilantism, an open question is in which cases citizens prefer vigilantism over conventional policing. To make sense of these preferences, we draw on two logics of punish…
Extortion, Civic Action, and Political Participation among Guatemalan Deportees
How do deported migrants engage in civic and political life after being forcibly returned to their home countries? Do experiences during the migration journey impact how deportees (re)engage? We explore how extortion experienced during migration alters political and civic engagement preferences. We utilize a multi-method approach combining original survey data of Guatemalans deported from the United States and a series of qualitative deportee int…
Citizen Cooperation with the Police: Evidence from Contemporary Guatemala
Community policing, and citizen cooperation with law enforcement more broadly, can improve local security outcomes by providing decentralized mechanisms for police accountability to local citizens. We hypothesize that five factors—alignment of citizen/police interests, relative costs of cooperation, costs of crime, prevalence of others’ cooperation, and perceived police efficacy—comprise a decision framework that guides citizens’ choices regardin…
Policing in a Post-Conflict State: Evidence from Uganda
How do governments in post-conflict settings provide for policing within their countries? I argue that leaders respond to both electoral concerns and security threats in shaping the geographic provision of policing infrastructure. Focusing on Uganda, I contend that the territorial expansion of policing has followed a distinct political logic. First, I use panel data on police infrastructure to demonstrate increased construction in counties with p…
Public trust, policing, and the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime
Policing Institutions and Post-Conflict Peace
How do policing institutions affect the prospects for peace in post-conflict settings? We present a principal-agent theoretical framework to explain how the institutional design of policing affects the recurrence of civil conflict. We argue that the fragmentation of police forces can reignite conflict dynamics by impeding coordinated action, undermining information sharing, and enabling agents to pursue their own interests. We test these expectat…
Class Mobility and Reproduction for Black and White Adults in the United States: A Visualization
The relationship between where people start out in life (class origin) and where they are likely to end up (class destination) is central to any question about the fairness of contemporary society. Yet we often don't have a good picture-literally or metaphorically-of the contours of that relationship. Further, work on class mobility in the United States often glosses over the large differences between white and Black Americans' class positions an…
Policing Institutions and Post-Conflict Peace
How do policing institutions affect the prospects for peace in post-conflict settings? We present a principal-agent theoretical framework to explain how the institutional design of policing affects the recurrence of civil conflict. We argue that the fragmentation of police forces can reignite conflict dynamics by impeding coordinated action, undermining information sharing, and enabling agents to pursue their own interests. We test these expectat…
Class Mobility and Reproduction for Black and White Adults in the United States: A Visualization
The relationship between where people start out in life (class origin) and where they are likely to end up (class destination) is central to any question about the fairness of contemporary society. Yet we often don't have a good picture-literally or metaphorically-of the contours of that relationship. Further, work on class mobility in the United States often glosses over the large differences between white and Black Americans' class positions an…
State Absence, Vengeance, and the Logic of Vigilantism in Guatemala
Across the world, citizens sidestep the state to punish offenses on their own. Such vigilantism can help communities provide order, yet it raises concerns about public accountability and the rights of the accused. While prior research has identified the structural correlates of vigilantism, an open question is in which cases citizens prefer vigilantism over conventional policing. To make sense of these preferences, we draw on two logics of punish…
Public trust, policing, and the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime
Citizen Cooperation with the Police: Evidence from Contemporary Guatemala
Community policing, and citizen cooperation with law enforcement more broadly, can improve local security outcomes by providing decentralized mechanisms for police accountability to local citizens. We hypothesize that five factors—alignment of citizen/police interests, relative costs of cooperation, costs of crime, prevalence of others’ cooperation, and perceived police efficacy—comprise a decision framework that guides citizens’ choices regardin…
Policing in a Post-Conflict State: Evidence from Uganda
How do governments in post-conflict settings provide for policing within their countries? I argue that leaders respond to both electoral concerns and security threats in shaping the geographic provision of policing infrastructure. Focusing on Uganda, I contend that the territorial expansion of policing has followed a distinct political logic. First, I use panel data on police infrastructure to demonstrate increased construction in counties with p…
Extortion, Civic Action, and Political Participation among Guatemalan Deportees
How do deported migrants engage in civic and political life after being forcibly returned to their home countries? Do experiences during the migration journey impact how deportees (re)engage? We explore how extortion experienced during migration alters political and civic engagement preferences. We utilize a multi-method approach combining original survey data of Guatemalans deported from the United States and a series of qualitative deportee int…
Class Mobility and Reproduction for Black and White Adults in the United States: A Visualization
The relationship between where people start out in life (class origin) and where they are likely to end up (class destination) is central to any question about the fairness of contemporary society. Yet we often don't have a good picture-literally or metaphorically-of the contours of that relationship. Further, work on class mobility in the United States often glosses over the large differences between white and Black Americans' class positions an…
Policing Institutions and Post-Conflict Peace
How do policing institutions affect the prospects for peace in post-conflict settings? We present a principal-agent theoretical framework to explain how the institutional design of policing affects the recurrence of civil conflict. We argue that the fragmentation of police forces can reignite conflict dynamics by impeding coordinated action, undermining information sharing, and enabling agents to pursue their own interests. We test these expectat…
Policing in a Post-Conflict State: Evidence from Uganda
How do governments in post-conflict settings provide for policing within their countries? I argue that leaders respond to both electoral concerns and security threats in shaping the geographic provision of policing infrastructure. Focusing on Uganda, I contend that the territorial expansion of policing has followed a distinct political logic. First, I use panel data on police infrastructure to demonstrate increased construction in counties with p…
Public trust, policing, and the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime
Citizen Cooperation with the Police: Evidence from Contemporary Guatemala
Community policing, and citizen cooperation with law enforcement more broadly, can improve local security outcomes by providing decentralized mechanisms for police accountability to local citizens. We hypothesize that five factors—alignment of citizen/police interests, relative costs of cooperation, costs of crime, prevalence of others’ cooperation, and perceived police efficacy—comprise a decision framework that guides citizens’ choices regardin…
State Absence, Vengeance, and the Logic of Vigilantism in Guatemala
Across the world, citizens sidestep the state to punish offenses on their own. Such vigilantism can help communities provide order, yet it raises concerns about public accountability and the rights of the accused. While prior research has identified the structural correlates of vigilantism, an open question is in which cases citizens prefer vigilantism over conventional policing. To make sense of these preferences, we draw on two logics of punish…
Extortion, Civic Action, and Political Participation among Guatemalan Deportees
How do deported migrants engage in civic and political life after being forcibly returned to their home countries? Do experiences during the migration journey impact how deportees (re)engage? We explore how extortion experienced during migration alters political and civic engagement preferences. We utilize a multi-method approach combining original survey data of Guatemalans deported from the United States and a series of qualitative deportee int…
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