Dr. Sebastian van Baalen
Dr. Sebastian van Baalen
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Prisoners in War
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Cooperation Across Enemy Lines: Explaining Prisoner Releases and Exchanges in War
A three-year research project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Why Victim Movements Work
A three-year research project funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Universities at Peace: Academic Freedom and Civil Society Engagement during Peace Processes
A two-year research project funded by the Democracy and Higher Education Program at Uppsala University.
eventreport R package: Helps users diagnose, visualize, and aggregate event report level data to the event level.
Helps users diagnose, visualize, and aggregate event report level data to the event level. Users provide an event report level dataset, specify their aggregation rules, and the package produces a dataset aggregated at the event level.
Election Boycott Characteristics and Outcomes (EBCO) dataset
An original, comprehensive dataset of all election boycotts worldwide in 1945–2024.
Modes and Agents of Election-Related Violence in Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya (MAVERICK)
A actor-centered georeferenced event report dataset including 2,200 electoral violence events in Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya in 1992-2022.
causalplot R package: Create Causal Diagrams Using A Simple Convencience Function
Tired of spending endless time customizing a causal process graph in Word or trying to decipher the inner workings of the TikZ package in LaTeX? The goal of causalplot is to create publication-ready causal process plots using a simple convenience function that demands almost nothing of the user and lets you focus your attention on what actually matters—the theorizing.
Côte d'Ivoire's Elections Have Already Been Decided: Ouattara Will Win and Democracy Will Lose
An op-ed for The Conversation.
Elfenbenskusten: Demokratin dör vid valurnorna
An op-ed for Global Bar Magazine.
Tutorial: Build your own data collection app in R
Are you embarking on a data collection project that aims to create a new dataset? Exciting! This tutorial describes how to make an online app that allows you and your team of coders to input information and save it to your dataset.
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