• Days of Rage: Introducing the NAVCO 3.0 Dataset 

      Chenoweth, Erica; Pinckney, Jonathan; Lewis, Orion A (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Although the empirical study of strategic nonviolent action has expanded in recent years, no current dataset provides detailed accounts of the day-to-day methods and tactics used by various nonviolent and violent actors ...
    • Friday on my mind: Re-assessing the Impact of Protest Size on Government Concessions 

      Butcher, Charles; Pinckney, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Do more protesters on the streets make governments likely to grant their demands? Several studies link protest size and government concessions. Yet existing research has limitations: many studies suffer from potential ...
    • Introducing the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns (ARC) dataset 

      Butcher, Charles; Braithwaite, Jessica Maves; Pinckney, Jonathan; Haugseth, Eirin; Bakken, Ingrid Vik; Wishman, Marius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We introduce the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns (ARC) dataset, which records information on 1,426 organizations that participated in events of maximalist violent and nonviolent contention in Africa from 1990 to 2015. The ...
    • Nonviolent Resistance and the Quality of Democracy 

      Bethke, Felix; Pinckney, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Previous research has shown that successful non-violent resistance (NVR) campaigns promote democracy compared with violent revolutions and top-down liberalization. However, research to date has not examined the character ...
    • Organizations, Resistance and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization 

      Pinckney, Jonathan; Butcher, Charles; Braithwaite, Jessica (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      When are episodes of resistance likely to lead to democratization? We argue that the participation of durable organizations rooted in quotidian relationships that are not themselves designed to compete for political power ...
    • When Civil Resistance Succeeds: Building Democracy after Popular Nonviolent Uprisings 

      Pinckney, Jonathan (Book, 2018)
      Why do some nonviolent revolutions lead to successful democratization while others fail to consolidate democratic change? And what can activists do to push toward a victory over dictatorship that results in long-term ...