Tore Wig

CV

cv_torewig.pdf

På nett

www.torewig.com (personlig hjemmeside)

@torewig (twitter håndtak)

Google scholar 

Faglige interesser

væpnet konflikt, politisk utvikling, borgerkrig, interstatlig konflikt, demokratisering, forskningsmetode, kvantitativ metode, prediksjon og forecasting, kausal inferens, institusjonell teori, massemobilisering og protest i diktaturer, regimeustabilitet, politikk i diktaturer

Undervisning

Current:

STV4027 - Quantitative causal analysis and prediction

STV4232 - Causes of war in international politics

STV1020 - Metode og statistikk

Past:

STV4232B - Causes of war

STV4325B - Causes of political violence

STV4027 - Causal inference

Tidligere stillinger

2016-2017 Seniorforsker, Institutt for Fredsforskning, PRIO

2015 - 2016 Postdoktor, Institutt for statsvitenskap, UIO

2012-2015 Forsker, Institutt for Fredsforskning, PRIO

2012-2015 Phd stipendiat, Institutt for Statsvitenskap, UIO

2015 - Visiting PhD fellow, Columbia University

2019 - Visiting research fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Utdanning

Phd i Statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo (2015)

Master i Statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo (2011)

Bachelor i Statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo (2009)

Priser

2016. Hans Majestet Kongen's gullmedalje for beste Phd avhandling levert ved SV-fakultetet. 

2018. NEPS medal for best publication in Peace Science, for the article "Autocratic Elections: Stabilizing tool or force for change?" (with Håvard Mokleiv Nygård and Carl Henrik Knutsen)

Formidling 

Washington Post's Monkey Cage:

 - "We checked 100 years of protests in 150 countries. Here’s what we learned about the working class and democracy." (with Sirianne Dahlum and Carl Henrik Knutsen, link).

- "You’d think dictators would avoid elections. Here’s why they don’t." (with Håvard Nygård and Carl Henrik Knutsen, link). 

Jevnlige bidrag i Aftenposten, Dagens Næringsliv, Klassekampen, VG og Morgenbladet.

Publikasjoner

Fagfellevurderte artikler:

2019. “Patterns of Regime Breakdown since the French Revolution”, with Vilde Lunnan Djuve and Carl Henrik Knutsen, forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies.

2019. "Who Revolts? Empirically Revisiting the Social Origins of Democracy", with Sirianne Dahlum and Carl Henrik Knutsen, forthcoming in Journal of Politics, Online first, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/704699. 

2019. "“Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th Century”, with Carl Henrik Knutsen, Jan Teorell, Agnes Cornell, John Gerring, Haakon Gjerløw, Svend Erik Skaaning, Daniel Ziblatt, Kyle Marquardt, Dan Pemstein, and Brigitte Seim, Journal of Peace Research, 56(3): 440–451. 

2019. “Educating Demonstrators: Education and Mass Protest in Africa”, with Sirianne Dahlum,  Journal of Conflict Resolution,  63(1): 3-30.

2018. “Which Groups Fight: Customary Institutions and Communal Conflicts in Africa”, with Daniela Kromrey, forthcoming in Journal of Peace Research. DOI: 10.1177/0022343317740416. (link to replication data here, online first version here).

2017. “Autocratic Elections: Stabilizing Tool or Force for Change?” , with Carl Henrik Knutsen and Håvard M. Nygård, World Politics, 69(1): 98-143 (link,  and monkeycage bloggpost).

2017. “Mining and Local Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa”, with Andreas Kotsadam, Eivind Hammersmark Olsen and Carl Henrik Knutsen,  American Journal of Political Science, 61(2): 320-334 (link, replication files).

2016. “Peace from the Past: Pre-colonial Political Institutions and Civil War in Africa”,  Journal of Peace Research, 53(4): 509-524 (link, replication files).

2016. “Local Institutional Quality and Conflict Violence in Africa”, with Andreas Forø Tollefsen, Political Geography, 53(7): 30-42. (link, replication files ).

2016. “Cues to Coup Plotters: Elections as Coup Triggers in Dictatorships” ,  with Espen Geelmuyden Rød, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 60(5): 787-812.  (link,  replication files).

2015. “Updated Data on Institutions and Elections 1960-2012: Presenting the IAEP dataset version 2.0”, Research & Politics 2(2), DOI: 10.1177/2053168015579120 (link, data).

2015. “Government Turnover and the Effects of Regime Type: How Requiring Alternation in Power Biases Against the Estimated Economic Benefits of Democracy”, with Carl Henrik Knutsen, Comparative Political Studies 48(7), 882-914 (link, replication files).

Doktorgradsvhandling:

2015. Beyond the Civil Peace: Subnational Political Institutions and Internal Armed Conflict (handed in: april 2015, defense: September 2015) 

Andre publikasjoner (ikke fagfellevurdert):

2018. Children Affected by Armed Conflict, 1990–2016, (with Karim Bahgat, Kendra Dupuy, Gudrun Østby, Siri Aas Rustad, Håvard Strand and Tore Wig). PRIO report. Oslo: PRIO. (short summary for policymakers here).

2016. "Democratization and Civil War", (with Håvard Hegre, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Baris Ari). Comparative Democratization Newsletter, June 2016.

2014. "Et Kritisk Blikk på Holbergprisen". Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 2014 (3): 255 - 265.

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