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William Nomikos
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peacebuilding, climate change and conflict, domestic politics and foreign policy || Assistant Professor of Political Science @UCSB || williamgnomikos.com || Previously @Yale @WashU
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Greece legalized same-sex marriage on Thursday, becoming the first Orthodox Christian country to do so. The country’s Parliament also extended equal parental rights to same-sex couples. nyti.ms/3T02d0d

Lines of people wearing blue T-shirts carry a giant pride flag along an Athens street during a Pride parade last June as a crowd looks on. A headline reads: "Greece Becomes First Orthodox Country to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage". Photo by Spyros Bakalis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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I've had the Kennedy jingle stuck in my head this entire week.

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*we talked about this in school* Dana Brady and her 14-year-old daughter heard a “pop, pop, pop,” and they froze for a moment...“We talked about this in school,” Ms. Brady said, recounting a conversation among the children. “To turn off our phones and be very quiet.”

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So excited this is finally out in the world. Grateful to the editors, reviewers and countless friends and colleagues who have provided feedback on this project!

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Yay! This is great news. Congrats on joining one of my favorite departments and group of people!

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🥳🚨 Excited to share my paper, "Coercive Legacies: From Rebel Governance to Authoritarian Control," cond. accepted at @thejop.bsky.socialpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....#polisky 🧵 1/4

Ex-rebels govern almost a quarter of sub-Saharan Africa today. How does war affect these countries' long-run political development, and what explains their rebel regimes' longevity? The paper explores the role of coercion in rebel governance: post-war governance draws from wartime strategies, which helps to explain (1) the continued use of organized coercion in post-war politics when faced with challenges to ruling party dominance, and (2) where such coercion is most effectively employed. I examine Zimbabwe where the anti-colonial rebel party has remained in power since 1980. I rely on archival data to qualitatively trace mechanisms, map pre-war to current-day administrative divisions, and code a measure of wartime governance. I combine these data with Afrobarometer surveys to demonstrate long-run subnational variation in coercive political control. Findings deepen our understanding of war’s effects on peacetime politics and provide one explanation for infrequent political turnovers
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Here's a cool podcast where I talk at length about the end of the peacekeeping mission in Mali (in French) podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

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William Nomikos
@wnomikos.bsky.social
peacebuilding, climate change and conflict, domestic politics and foreign policy || Assistant Professor of Political Science @UCSB || williamgnomikos.com || Previously @Yale @WashU
245 followers160 following49 posts