Kathleen Cunningham
@kgcunnin.bsky.social
Professor, Gov & Politics, University of Maryland
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I made signs expressing points of disagreement with the government
October 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I made signs expressing points of disagreement with the government
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Which types of repression are more likely to elicit foreign sympathy and support for victims? @kgcunnin.bsky.social and I find that US respondents are more sympathetic and supportive of those facing religious and language rights violations, but that these effects are not felt uniformly by partisans.
Rights violations and international public opinion
Victims of human rights violations and their activist allies often attempt to rally external solidarity for aggrieved groups in order to end repression. We conduct a nation-wide survey experiment t...
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September 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Which types of repression are more likely to elicit foreign sympathy and support for victims? @kgcunnin.bsky.social and I find that US respondents are more sympathetic and supportive of those facing religious and language rights violations, but that these effects are not felt uniformly by partisans.
Just got my paper copy of this great book by Sherry Zaks. Recommend for anyone interested in rebel groups and rebel governance.
August 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just got my paper copy of this great book by Sherry Zaks. Recommend for anyone interested in rebel groups and rebel governance.
First adventure in dog fostering!
June 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
First adventure in dog fostering!
This update took longer than I anticipated, but it's out now! New data on organizational use of violent and nonviolent tactics. Using a diversity of nonviolent tactics is linked to longer survival for orgs.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SXPRW...
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SXPRW...
Tactics of survival: Strategies of Resistance Data Project update - Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Ted Ellsworth, Harriet Goers, Michael Cowan, Oja Pathak, Ellin Chung, 2025
This article presents an update on the Strategies of Resistance Data Project. It extends the original coding of organizations seeking greater self-determination...
journals.sagepub.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This update took longer than I anticipated, but it's out now! New data on organizational use of violent and nonviolent tactics. Using a diversity of nonviolent tactics is linked to longer survival for orgs.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SXPRW...
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SXPRW...
Excited to share our new book! Rebel groups can play key roles in addressing environmental and climate related challenges. w/ @dfjung.bsky.social @cloyle.bsky.social @lisgilmore.bsky.social @reyhuang.bsky.social & Leo Gentil Fernandes
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change
Cambridge Core - Climatology and Climate Change - Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change
www.cambridge.org
June 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Excited to share our new book! Rebel groups can play key roles in addressing environmental and climate related challenges. w/ @dfjung.bsky.social @cloyle.bsky.social @lisgilmore.bsky.social @reyhuang.bsky.social & Leo Gentil Fernandes
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Strategic use of referenda by nonstate actors... referenda can be used as a way to gain or uphold status within a movement. w/ Harriet Goers & @laiabalcells.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Internal drivers of self-rule referendums - Harriet Goers, Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Laia Balcells, 2025
From Catalonia to Kurdistan to Scotland, referendums have increasingly become popular strategies of self-rule movements. Despite this, many referendums are cons...
journals.sagepub.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Strategic use of referenda by nonstate actors... referenda can be used as a way to gain or uphold status within a movement. w/ Harriet Goers & @laiabalcells.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System.
This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine.
Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine.
Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
USDA halts more than $100M in funding for University of Maine System programs
The move temporarily pauses USDA funding for Maine's university system after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off the state over Maine's decision to allow transgender athletes to compete in sp...
www.pressherald.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
Climate change matters for security
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Armed rebel groups engage in climate governance - Climatic Change
An estimated two billion people live in areas presently affected by fragility, armed conflict, and violence. In many of these locations armed non-state actors (e.g. rebel groups) rather than the state...
link.springer.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Climate change matters for security
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
