Michael Spagat

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Bohorquez, Juan Camilo; Gourley, Sean; Dixon, Alexander R.; Spagat, Michael; Johnson, Neil F. (2009-12-17). "Common ecology quantifies human insurgency" (PDF). Nature. 462 (7275): 911–914. Bibcode:2009Natur.462..911B. doi:10.1038/nature08631. PMID   20016600.
  • Overland, Jody; Simons, Kenneth L.; Spagat, Michael (2005). "Political instability and growth in dictatorships" (PDF). Public Choice. 125 (3). Kluwer Academic Publishers: 445–470. doi:10.1007/s11127-005-3060-0.
  • Restrepo, Jorge A.; Spagat, Michael; Vargas, Juan F. "The dynamics of the Colombian civil conflict: A new data set" (PDF). Centre for Economic Policy Research . SSRN   480247.
  • Spagat, Michael; Mack, Andrew; Cooper, Tara; Kreutz, Joakim (2009). "Estimating war deaths: An arena of contestation". Journal of Conflict Resolution . 53 (6): 934–950. doi:10.1177/0022002709346253.
  • Jewell, Nicholas P.; Spagat, Michael; Jewell, Britta L. (2018). "Accounting for civilian casualties: From the past to the future" (PDF). Social Science History . 42 (3): 379–410. doi:10.1017/ssh.2018.9.
  • Spagat, Michael; van Weezel, Stijn. "The decline of war since 1950: New evidence" (PDF). Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences. Springer International Publishing: 129.
  • Hsiao-Rei Hicks, Madelyn; Dardagan, Hamit; Guerrero Serdán, Gabriela; Bagnall, Peter M.; Sloboda, John A.; Spagat, Michael (2009). "The weapons that kill civilians—deaths of children and noncombatants in Iraq, 2003–2008". New England Journal of Medicine. 360 (16): 1585–1588. doi:10.1056/NEJMp0807240. PMID   19369663.
  • Hsiao-Rei Hicks, Madelyn; Dardagan, Hamit; Guerrero Serdán, Gabriela; Bagnall, Peter M.; Sloboda, John A.; Spagat, Michael (2011). "Violent deaths of Iraqi civilians, 2003–2008: analysis by perpetrator, weapon, time, and location". PLOS Medicine . 8 (2). Public Library of Science: e1000415. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000415 . PMC   3039690 . PMID   21358813.
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    Michael Spagat
    Bornc. 1960 (age 6364)
    United States
    Academic background
    Education
    Thesis Supply Disruptions in Centrally Planned Economies [1] [2]