Sabine Carey answered some questions for the project Scientia Futura by Marlene Mußotter, which spotlights academic careers of women to outline different paths, challenges and opportunities. Read the interview here.
A fully revised version of 2016 article on pro-government militias (PGMs) and conflict is now available online. Sabine Carey, Neil Mitchell and Adam Scharpf explain the role of PGMs in the context of armed conflict. Using new data on PGMs in counterinsurgency wars between 1950-2005, the article shows that despite their greater mobility and superior information levels, local militia groups do not help to shorten the duration of the counterinsurgency and do not increase the chances of a government win over the rebels.
After the great interest in last year’s session, I will again hold an informal zoom session for female political sciences students who are potentially considering pursuing a PhD.
The goals of this session are:
to provide you with some basic information about the format of PhD programmes/positions (primarily in Europe)
to provide a save space for you to ask questions
to put you in a better position for making an informed choice.
Together with Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walter (University of Zürich) and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Anna-Lena Hönig, who received her PhD from the University of Mannheim last year, we will discuss:
what to consider when deciding to pursue a PhD, incl. pros & cons of a PhD
how to look for a suitable PhD programme
and importantly try to answer your questions about pursuing a PhD in political science. Note that we will not provide information about specific funding programmes.
Date: 23 February 2022, 10am-11am CET.
Interested? -> Please email us at info4female.students@uni-mannheim.de by 20 February and mention whether and where you are enrolled in an MA programme. We will then send you the link to the Zoom room.
I look forward to hearing from you!
The article “The Life, Death and Diversity of Pro-Government Militias: The Fully Revised Pro-Government Militias Database Version 2.0.” by Sabine Carey, Neil Mitchell and Katrin Paula is now out in Research & Politics 9(1). It describes this fully revised version of the PGMD. The data are available here.
Congratulations to Prof. Katrin Paula, now at the Technical University of Munich, for her third price for her PhD dissertation, which she completed at the University of Mannheim and while part of the RATE Team! The Academy made the following announcement on their website:
““The Academy of Sociology is proud to highlight an outstanding dissertation submitted in 2019/2020 which contributes to the discipline in terms of originality of research, stringent argumentation, transparency of results, and the scientific and societal (if applicable) impact“”
We are very excited for her work to be recognised in this way, after having already been award the Lorenz-von-Stein Dissertation Prize and the Dissertation Prize from the Foundation for Communication and Media Sciences.
Dr. Christian Gläßel, former member of the RATE team and now postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School of Governance, is co-recipient of the Lorenz-von-Stein-Preis 2020. This annual prize is awarded to outstanding dissertations in political science, social psychology and sociology at the University of Mannheim. Previous recipient of the Lorenz-von-Stein Preis 2019 was Prof. Katrin Paula, also former member of the RATE Team and now Professor for Global Security & Technology at the TU München. Both PhD theses have been supervised by Prof. Sabine Carey.
Congratulations to Christian (and Katrin again) for this fantastic achievement!
Sabine Carey wrote on “The Promises and Perils of Pro-Government Militias in Armed Conflicts” on the PEACELAB Blog, published by the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi).
“Professor Sabine Carey of the University of Mannheim speaks to the Political Economy Forum host Nicolas Wittstock about her work on the killing of journalists. Perhaps counterintuitively, journalists are most at risk in democratic countries rather than autocracies. Professor Carey explains the logic of resorting to violence in different institutional settings.”
I am organising a Publication Support Series for female PhD students and early career students in Europe working broadly on empirical questions in the area of conflict, peace and human rights research. The series consists of three online workshops (April 2021, October 2021, January 2022). At the end of the series each participant should be in a position to submit an article to a peer-reviewed journal.
Interested? Check out the call for application. Deadline for applications 23 March 2021.
I am organising an informal zoom session on 23 Feb 2021 at 10am CET for female political sciences students who are potentially considering pursuing a PhD.
The goals of this about one hour long session are:
to provide you with some basic information about the format of PhD programmes/positions (primarily in Europe)
to provide a save space for you to ask questions
to put you in a better position for making an informed choice.
Together with Prof. Catherine de Vries (Bocconi University) and a recent female PhD Graduate, we will discuss:
what to consider when deciding to pursue a PhD, incl. pros & cons of a PhD
how to look for a suitable PhD programme
and importantly try to answer your questions about pursuing a PhD in political science.
Interested? -> Please email us at info4female.students@uni-mannheim.de by 19 February. Please briefly mention whether and where you are enrolled in an MA programme. We will then send you the link to the Zoom room.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Why are journalists killed for the work they do - and why are journalists predominately murdered in institutional democracies, where they should enjoy particular protection? Sabine Carey and Anita Gohdes research this question with new detailed data on killings of journalists globally, identifying type of perpetrator and outlets the journalists were working for. Their results show that, counterintuitively, democratic institutions do not help protect reporters from being murdered. Among institutional democracies, locally elected governments increase the risk that a journalist is murdered by state actors or by unconfirmed perpetrators.
The article “Understanding journalist killings” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Politics. Access the pre-publication paper here.
Sabine Carey presented initial insights from a joint project with Jürgen Brandsch at the School of Global & Public Affairs at IE Madrid on 4 December 2020. The project evaluates how borderization affects individuals’ perceptions of their personal security.
Using data from a face-to-face survey based on a random sample of over 2,000 respondents across Georgia, we ask whether respondents see the insecurity of Georgia’s borders as a severe risk to their personal security. We evaluate whether differences in perceptions are related to whether respondents live close to an administrative borderline, whether the type of borderline makes a difference (comparing the borderlines to Abkhazia versus South Ossetia), and whether the perceptions are related to the type of media they use as their main news source.
Dr. Katrin Paula was awarded all three research prizes for young researcher in the social sciences at the University of Mannheim for her PhD research:
She received the Lorenz-von-Stein Preis for the dissertation in the social sciences at the University of Mannheim.
She was also awarded the prize for the best dissertation by the Foundation for Communication and Media Sciences at the University.
Finally, Dr. Katrin Paula and Dr. Christian Gläßel received the prize for the best “empirical models on social processes” by junior scholars, awarded by the Prof. Dr. Anna and Prof. Dr. Jörg Jiri Bojanovsky Foundation, for their article “Sometimes Less is More: Censorship, News Falsification, and Disapproval in 1989 East Germany”, published in the American Journal of Political Science 64(3), 682-698, 2019.
Dr. Katrin Paula is now Professor for Global Security and Technology at the Technical University of Munich. Dr. Christian Gläßel is postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security in Berlin. Both were previously researchers at the RATE project and completed their PhD at the University of Mannheim, supervised by Sabine Carey.
Big Congratulations to both of them!!
RATE (Repression and the Escalation of Violence) is a research project aimed at explaining the escalation and non-escalation of repression and intra-state armed conflict.
