Lindsey Pruett
@pruett.bsky.social
Assistant professor of pol sci @LSU. State-building, policing, civ-mil, and colonialism, mostly in West Africa. www.lindseypruett.com
In a new paper, @royaizadi.bsky.social and I show that military involvement in the economy lowers the risk of mutinies. Military businesses lead to rent-seeking among the rank-and-file, and soldiers are loathe to risk access to private goodies.
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October 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In a new paper, @royaizadi.bsky.social and I show that military involvement in the economy lowers the risk of mutinies. Military businesses lead to rent-seeking among the rank-and-file, and soldiers are loathe to risk access to private goodies.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Exactly how many children have to starve to death because Fox & Friends hate gay people? 10,000? 2 million? 8? More if they're African?
March 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Exactly how many children have to starve to death because Fox & Friends hate gay people? 10,000? 2 million? 8? More if they're African?
Does infrastructure always strengthen the state?
It's messy! At the @thejop.bsky.social, I show how railway expansion upended conditions of social control in unexpected ways, and find people were more likely to evade the draft in railway districts.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
It's messy! At the @thejop.bsky.social, I show how railway expansion upended conditions of social control in unexpected ways, and find people were more likely to evade the draft in railway districts.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
June 5, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Does infrastructure always strengthen the state?
It's messy! At the @thejop.bsky.social, I show how railway expansion upended conditions of social control in unexpected ways, and find people were more likely to evade the draft in railway districts.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
It's messy! At the @thejop.bsky.social, I show how railway expansion upended conditions of social control in unexpected ways, and find people were more likely to evade the draft in railway districts.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...