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Catlan Reardon
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Postdoc @ DIL; UChicago | UC Berkeley PhD | PE of Development; Violence & Conflict; African Politics
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🆕 Climate politics: Understanding political inaction on climate change

Today on VoxDev, @allanhsiao.bsky.social (@stanford.edu) & @nickkuipers.bsky.social (Princeton) discuss the reasons politicians underestimate the demand for climate policy responses in Indonesia: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Climate politics: Understanding political inaction on climate change
Despite strong public concern for climate change and pollution in Indonesia, politicians underestimate the demand for policy responses and fail to act – even when informed of voter preferences. Politi...
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August 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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My book was just sent to press! It'll be available in print end of July. Focusing mostly on the topic of bureaucracy in Southeast Asia during the 20th c, the book develops an argument about how state-building can present headwinds for nation-building.
June 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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🥳🚨 Excited to share my paper, "Coercive Legacies: From Rebel Governance to Authoritarian Control," cond. accepted at @thejop.bsky.social (paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)
I ask:❓How does rebel governance affect political development when rebel parties win power? #polisky 🧵 1/4
Ex-rebels govern almost a quarter of sub-Saharan Africa today. How does war affect these countries' long-run political development, and what explains their rebel regimes' longevity? The paper explores the role of coercion in rebel governance: post-war governance draws from wartime strategies, which helps to explain (1) the continued use of organized coercion in post-war politics when faced with challenges to ruling party dominance, and (2) where such coercion is most effectively employed. I examine Zimbabwe where the anti-colonial rebel party has remained in power since 1980. I rely on archival data to qualitatively trace mechanisms, map pre-war to current-day administrative divisions, and code a measure of wartime governance. I combine these data with Afrobarometer surveys to demonstrate long-run subnational variation in coercive political control. Findings deepen our understanding of war’s effects on peacetime politics and provide one explanation for infrequent political turnovers
November 20, 2023 at 4:23 PM