The limits of soft balancing: the frozen conflict in Transnistria and the challenge to EU and NATO strategy
In: Small wars & insurgencies, Volume 27, Issue 3, p. 512-537
ISSN: 1743-9558
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In: Small wars & insurgencies, Volume 27, Issue 3, p. 512-537
ISSN: 1743-9558
In: Small wars & insurgencies, Volume 27, Issue 3, p. 512
ISSN: 0959-2318
In: Journal of peace research, Volume 52, Issue 5, p. 649-664
ISSN: 1460-3578
One of the major issues in predicting state failure is the relatively rare occurrence of event onset. This class skew problem can cause difficulties in both estimating a model and selecting a decision boundary. Since the publication of King & Zeng's studies in 2001, scholars have utilized case-control methods to address this issue. This article builds on the landmark research of the Political Instability Task Force comparing the case-control approach to several other methods from the machine learning field and some original to this study. Case-control methods have several practical disadvantages and show no measurable advantages in prediction. The article also introduces cost-sensitive methods for determining a decision boundary. This explication raises questions about the Task Force's formulation of a decision boundary and suggests methods for making useful predictions for policy. I find that the decision boundary chosen by the PITF implicitly assumes that the cost of intervention is about 7.7% of the cost of non-intervention when state failure will take place. These findings demonstrate that there is still much work to be done in predicting state failure, especially in limiting the number of false positives. More generally, it suggests caution in using accuracy as a measure of success when significant class imbalance exists in the data.
In: Journal of peace research, Volume 52, Issue 5, p. 649-664
ISSN: 0022-3433
World Affairs Online
In: Comparative politics, Volume 46, Issue 3, p. 273-292
ISSN: 2151-6227
In: Comparative politics, Volume 46, Issue 3, p. 273-292
ISSN: 0010-4159
World Affairs Online
In: East European politics, Volume 29, Issue 2, p. 253-254
ISSN: 2159-9173
In: European Union politics: EUP, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. 228-249
ISSN: 1741-2757
This study sets forth a social identity explanation of the link between supranational identity and democratic values, and, thus, for cross-border value diffusion. This explanation is tested with data from 19 regions in Europe from the latest wave of the World Values Survey using multilevel ordered logit models. The results reveal a little-studied relationship between the supranational identification of respondents within the European framework and stronger support for the postmaterialist values that have been previously linked to successful democratization. Conversely, stronger national and local identification is associated with weaker support for these values. The use of multilevel methods also reveals several interesting patterns in more traditional explanations of the adoption of democratic values. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]
In: East European Politics, Volume 29, Issue 2, p. 253-254
In: European Union politics: EUP, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. 228-249
ISSN: 1465-1165
In: European Union politics: EUP, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. 228-249
ISSN: 1741-2757
This study sets forth a social identity explanation of the link between supranational identity and democratic values, and, thus, for cross-border value diffusion. This explanation is tested with data from 19 regions in Europe from the latest wave of the World Values Survey using multilevel ordered logit models. The results reveal a little-studied relationship between the supranational identification of respondents within the European framework and stronger support for the postmaterialist values that have been previously linked to successful democratization. Conversely, stronger national and local identification is associated with weaker support for these values. The use of multilevel methods also reveals several interesting patterns in more traditional explanations of the adoption of democratic values.
In: APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 72, Issue 3, p. 785-798
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 72, Issue 3, p. 785-799
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: European Union politics: EUP, Volume 11, Issue 4, p. 511-533
ISSN: 1465-1165