2024 – 2027 | Devolving the monopoly on violence,
German Research Council
- Applicant and head of project; EUR 598.900
- Research question: “How does the devolution of state functions affect citizens’ security in areas governed by customary arrangements?”
- Methods: perception surveys, qualitative analyses in Mexico
2020 – 2024 | Micro-level determinants and
consequences of militia performance, German Research Council
- Applicant and head of project; EUR 510,000
- Research question: “What explains militia performance and how does militia performance affect state legitimacy?”
- Methods: perception surveys, qualitative analyses in Afghanistan and Mexico
2020 – 2022 | The impact of information on aid outcomes, KfW Development
Bank
- Applicant and head of project; EUR 660,000
- Research question: “How do information campaigns among beneficiary and non-beneficiary populations influence attitudinal effects of aid interventions?”
- Methods: telephone surveys in conflict-affected areas of Mali and Niger, survey experiment
2018 – 2020 | The
Anatomy of Repression in Authoritarian States, German Foundation for Peace Research
- Applicant and head of project; volume: EUR 98,000
- Analysis of personnel files of the secret service (Staatssicherheit) of the Former German Democratic Republic
- Methods: archival data collection; quantitative analyses
2014 – 2016 | Territorial Dynamics of Colonial State-Building, Gerda Henkel Foundation
- Applicant and head of project (with Jan Pierskalla); volume: EUR 93,000
- Research question: “What Factors Shape Spatial Patterns of State-Building?”
- Methods: quantitative analysis; data from two newly compiled historical datasets on former German colonies
2016 – 2016 | Impact Evaluation - “Peace Fund”, Ministry for Economic Cooperation
- Applicant and head of project (with Eva Wegner, Miquel Pellicer and Carlo Koos); volume: EUR 150,000
- Impact evaluation of a EUR 50 million development project in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Methods: opinion survey; quasi-experiment and matching approach
2014 – 2017 | Local Conflict and the Local State, German Research Council
- Applicant and head of project; volume: EUR 285,000
- Research question: “What is the Role of Public Basic Service Delivery in Low-Level Violence against the State?”
- Methods: quantitative analysis and field research in Nepal and South Africa
2014 – 2016 | From Civil War to Social Contract, Ministry for Economic Cooperation
- Applicant and head of project; volume: EUR 199,000
- Research question: “What are the Determinants of Political Trust in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States?”
- Methods: opinion surveys (n>1500) and in-depth qualitative field research in Burundi, Afghanistan, and Peru