David Siegel CV

Journal article American Political Science Review · January 1, 2013 Featured Publication How do global sources of information such as mass media outlets, state propaganda, NGOs, and national party leadership affect aggregate behavior? Prior work on this question has insufficiently considered the complex interaction between social network and m ... Full text Cite

Religious Participation and Economic Conservatism

Journal article American Journal of Political Science · January 1, 2013 Featured Publication Why do some individuals engage in more religious activity than others? And how does this religious activity influence their economic attitudes? We present a formal model in which individuals derive utility from both secular and religious sources. Our model ... Full text Cite

Non-disruptive tactics of suppression are superior in countering terrorism, insurgency, and financial panics.

Journal article PloS one · April 2011 Featured Publication BackgroundSuppressing damaging aggregate behaviors such as insurgency, terrorism, and financial panics are important tasks of the state. Each outcome of these aggregate behaviors is an emergent property of a system in which each individual's actio ... Full text Open Access Cite

When does repression work? Collective action in social networks

Journal article Journal of Politics · 2011 Featured Publication Cite

Social networks and collective action

Journal article American Journal of Political Science · January 1, 2009 Featured Publication Despite growing attention to the role of social context in determining political participation, the effect of the structure of social networks remains little examined. This article introduces a model of interdependent decision making within social networks ... Full text Cite