Research interests

My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), among other sources, and primarily falls within two core subfields of political science: international relations  and political methodology.  Within international relations,  research political violence, environmental politics, and international political economy. My methodological work draws upon these substantive interests with a focus on computational social science techniques, duration modeling, and  finite mixture models for the study of political science.

This research page organizes my published and ongoing research projects into the subcategories described above. Note that several of my projects appear in multiple subcategories below. For a single itemized list of my publications, please see this page.

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Political Violence

Stundal, Logan, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, John R. Freeman, Jennifer S. Holmes. 2023. "Human Rights Violations in Space: Assessing the External Validity of Machine-Geocoded versus Human-Geocoded Data." Political Analysis. 31(1): 81-97.

Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Daniel Berliner, and Ryan M. Welch. 2021. "The Diversity of Repression: Measuring State Repressive Repertoires with Events Data." Journal of Peace Research. 58(5): 1126-1136.
​​Koren, Ore, Benjamin E. Bagozzi., and Thomas S. Benson 2021. "Food and Water Insecurity as Causes of Social Unrest: Evidence from Geolocated Twitter Data." Journal of Peace Research.   58(1): 67-82.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Patrick T. Brandt, John R. Freeman, Jennifer S. Holmes, Alisha Kim, Agustin Palao Mendizabal, and Carly Potz-Nielsen. 2019. "The Prevalence and Severity of Underreporting Bias in Machine and Human Coded Data.'' Political Science Research and Methods. 7(3): 641-649.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E. and Ore Koren. 2017. "Using Machine Learning Methods to Identify Atrocity Perpetrators." Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Application of Big Data for Computational Social Science in IEEE BigData 2017. Boston, USA.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Ore Koren, and Bumba Mukherjee. 2017.  "Droughts, Land Appropriation, and Rebel Violence in the Developing World." Journal of Politics.  79(3): 1057-1072.
Koren, Ore and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2017.  "Living Off The Land: The Connection Between Cropland, Food Security, and Violence Against Civilians" Journal of Peace Research.  54(3): 351-364.
Almquist, Zack W. and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2016.  "The Spatial Properties of Radical Environmental Groups in the UK: Do or Die!" PLoS One. 11(11):e0166609.
​Koren, Ore and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2016. "From Global to Local, Food Security is Associated with Contemporary Armed Conflicts." Food Security. 8(5): 999-1010.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E. 2016. "The Baseline Inflated Multinomial Logit Model for International Relations Research." Conflict Management and Peace Science. 33(2): 174-197.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E. 2016.  "On Malaria and the Duration of Civil War." Journal of Conflict Resolution. 60(5) 813-839.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E. 2015. "Forecasting Civil Conflict with Zero Inflated Count Models."  Civil Wars. 17(1): 1-24.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Daniel W. Hill Jr., Will H. Moore, and Bumba Mukherjee . 2015. "Modeling Two Types of Peace: The Zero-inflated Ordered Probit (ZiOP) Model in Conflict Research."  Journal of Conflict Resolution. 59(4): 728-752.
Schrodt, Philip A., James Yonamine, and Benjamin E. Bagozzi.  2013. "Data-based Computational Approaches to Forecasting Political Violence." V.S. Subrahmanian (ed.). Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism.

Environmental Politics

Benjamin E. Bagozzi and Ore Koren. 2023. "The Diplomatic Burden of Pandemics: Lessons from Malaria." Political Science Research and Methods. 11(1): 214-221.

Koren, Ore, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, and Thomas S. Benson 2021. "Food and Water Insecurity as Causes of Social Unrest: Evidence from Geolocated Twitter Data." Journal of Peace Research.   58(1): 67-82.
Almquist, Zack W. and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2020. "Automated Text Analysis for Understanding Radical Activism: The Topical Agenda of the North American Animal Liberation Movement." Research & Politics.   7(2): 1-8.
Almquist, Zack W. and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2019. "Using Radical Environmentalist Texts to Uncover Network Structure and Network Features" Sociological Methods & Research. 49(4): 905-960.
​Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Ore Koren, and Bumba Mukherjee. 2017.  "Droughts, Land Appropriation, and Rebel Violence in the Developing World." Journal of Politics.  79(3): 1057-1072.
​Koren, Ore and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2017.  "Living Off The Land: The Connection Between Cropland, Food Security, and Violence Against Civilians" Journal of Peace Research. 54(3): 351-364.
Almquist, Zack W. and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2016.  "The Spatial Properties of Radical Environmental Groups in the UK: Do or Die!" PLoS One. 11(11):e0166609.
Koren, Ore and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2016. "From Global to Local, Food Security is Associated with Contemporary Armed Conflicts." Food Security. 8(5): 999-1010.
​Bagozzi, Benjamin E. 2016.  "On Malaria and the Duration of Civil War." Journal of Conflict Resolution. 60(5) 813-839.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E. 2015.  "The Multifaceted Nature of Global Climate Change Negotiations." Review of International Organizations. 10(4): 439-464.

International Political Economy

Guisinger, Alexandra, Bumba Mukherjee, and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2016. "The IMF, Finance Interest Groups, and Capital 'Flight' in Developing States." Kellogg Institute for International Studies: Working Paper Series.  #410.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E. and Steven T. Landis. 2015. "The Stabilizing Effects of International Politics on Bilateral Trade Flows." Foreign Policy Analysis. 11(2):151-171.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Thomas Brawner, Bumba Mukherjee, and Vineeta Yadav. 2014. "Regional International Organizations and Individual Immigration Attitudes: Results from Finite Mixture Models." International Interactions. 40(3): 350-375.
Mukherjee, Bumba and Benjamin E. Bagozzi.  2013. "The IMF, Domestic Public Sector Banks and Currency Crises in Developing States." International Interactions. 39(1):1-29. ​

Finite Mixture Models

Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Minnie M. Joo, Bomin Kim, and Bumba Mukherjee. 2019. "A Bayesian Split Population Survival Model for Duration Data with Misclassified Failure Events.'' Political Analysis.  27(4): 415-434.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Patrick T. Brandt, John R. Freeman, Jennifer S. Holmes, Alisha Kim, Agustin Palao Mendizabal, and Carly Potz-Nielsen. 2019. "The Prevalence and Severity of Underreporting Bias in Machine and Human Coded Data.'' Political Science Research and Methods. 7(3): 641-649.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E. and Kathleen Marchetti. 2017. "Distinguishing Occasional Abstention from Routine Indifference in Models of Vote Choice." Political Science Research  and Methods.  5(2): 277-249.
​Bagozzi, Benjamin E. 2016. "The Baseline Inflated Multinomial Logit Model for International Relations Research." Conflict Management and Peace Science.  33(2): 174-197.
​Bagozzi, Benjamin E. 2015. "Forecasting Civil Conflict with Zero Inflated Count Models."  Civil Wars. 17(1): 1-24.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Daniel W. Hill Jr., Will H. Moore, and Bumba Mukherjee . 2015. "Modeling Two Types of Peace: The Zero-inflated Ordered Probit (ZiOP) Model in Conflict Research."  Journal of Conflict Resolution. 59(4): 728-752.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Thomas Brawner, Bumba Mukherjee, and Vineeta Yadav. 2014. "Regional International Organizations and Individual Immigration Attitudes: Results from Finite Mixture Models." International Interactions. 40(3): 350-375.
Schrodt, Philip A., James Yonamine, and Benjamin E. Bagozzi.  2013. "Data-based Computational Approaches to Forecasting Political Violence." V.S. Subrahmanian (ed.). Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism. ​
​Bagozzi, Benjamin E. and Bumba Mukherjee.  2012. "A Mixture Model for Middle-category Inflation in Ordered Survey Responses."  Political Analysis. 20(3): 369-386.
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Computational Social Science:

Erlich, Aaron, Stefano G. Dantas, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Daniel Berliner, and Brian Palmer Rubin. 2022. "Multi-label Prediction for Political Text-as-Data." Political Analysis. 30(4): 463-480.

Berliner, Daniel, Brian Palmer-Rubin, Jésica E. Tapia Reyes, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, and Aaron Erlich. 2022. Big data y acceso a la información en México (Informe de la Política Pública). The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Ellington, Sarah A.V., Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Daniel Berliner, Brian Palmer-Rubin, and Aaron Erlich. 2022. "Measuring Human Rights Abuse from Access to Information Requests." Journal of Conflict Resolution. 66(2):357-384.
Eigenmann, Rudi, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Arthi Jayaraman, William Totten and Cathy H. Wu. 2021. "DARWIN - A Resource for Computational and Data-intensive Research at the University of Delaware and in the Delaware Region.'' University of Delaware. Technical Report.
Erlich, Aaron, Daniel Berliner, Brian Palmer Rubin, and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2021. "Media Attention and Bureaucratic Responsiveness." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 31(4):  687-703.
Koren, Ore, Benjamin E. Bagozzi., and Thomas S. Benson 2021. "Food and Water Insecurity as Causes of Social Unrest: Evidence from Geolocated Twitter Data." Journal of Peace Research.   58(1): 67-82.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Daniel Berliner, and Zack W. Almquist. 2021. "When Does Open Government Shut? Predicting Government Responses to Citizen Information Requests." Regulation & Governance. 15(2): 280-297.
Berliner, Daniel, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Brian Palmer-Rubin, and Aaron Erlich. 2021. "The Political Logic of Government Disclosure: Evidence from Information Requests in Mexico." Journal of Politics. 83(1): 229-245.
Almquist, Zack W. and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2020. "Automated Text Analysis for Understanding Radical Activism: The Topical Agenda of the North American Animal Liberation Movement." Research & Politics.   7(2): 1-8.
Almquist, Zack W. and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2019.  "Using Radical Environmentalist Texts to Uncover Network Structure and Network Features" Sociological Methods & Research. 49(4): 905-960.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E. and Daniel Berliner. 2018. "The Politics of Scrutiny in Human Rights Monitoring: Evidence from Structural Topic Models of US State Department Human Rights Reports." Political Science Research and Methods. 6(4): 661-677.
Berliner, Daniel, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, and Brian Palmer-Rubin. 2018. "What Information Do Citizens Want? Evidence from One Million Information Requests in Mexico." World Development. 109: 222-235.
​Bagozzi, Benjamin E. and Ore Koren. 2017. "Using Machine Learning Methods to Identify Atrocity Perpetrators." Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Application of Big Data for Computational Social Science in IEEE BigData 2017. Boston, USA.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Daniel Berliner and ZackW. Almquist. 2016. "Predicting Government (Non) Responsiveness to Freedom of Information Requests with Supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation.''  Proceedings of the International Conference on the Advances in Computational Analysis of Political Text - PolText 2016. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Almquist, Zack W. and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2016.  "The Spatial Properties of Radical Environmental Groups in the UK: Do or Die!" PLoS One. 11(11):e0166609.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E. 2015.  "The Multifaceted Nature of Global Climate Change Negotiations." Review of International Organizations. 10(4): 439-464.
Schrodt, Philip A., James Yonamine, and Benjamin E. Bagozzi. 2013. "Data-based Computational Approaches to Forecasting Political Violence." V.S. Subrahmanian (ed.). Handbook of Computaitonal Approaches to Counterterrorism. ​
Bagozzi, Benjamin E. 2015.  "The Multifaceted Nature of Global Climate Change Negotiations." Review of International Organizations. 10(4): 439-464. ​

Duration Modeling:

Anderson, Noel, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, and Ore Koren. 2021. "Addressing Monotone Likelihood in Duration Modeling of Political Events." British Journal of Political Science. 51(4): 1654-1671.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Minnie M. Joo, Bomin Kim, and Bumba Mukherjee. 2019. "A Bayesian Split Population Survival Model for Duration Data with Misclassified Failure Events.'' Political Analysis.  27(4): 415-434.


Psychology:

Maduka-Ezeh, Awele, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Mawuna Gardesey, Ikwesilotuto T. Ezeh, Farrah Nibbs, Somawina Nwegbu, Ryan Mai, Jennifer A. Horney, Joseph E. Trainor.  Forthcoming. "'Inspired to Action': Immigrants' Faith-Based Organizations’ Responses across Two Pandemics." Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
Maduka-Ezeh, Awele, Ikwesilotuto T. Ezeh, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Jennifer A. Horney, Somawina Nwegbu,  and Joseph E. Trainor. 2021. "US Immigrants' Experiences with the COVID-19 Pandemic-Findings from Online Focus Groups." Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice. 14(1): 31-55.
Young, Dannagal G., Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Abigail Goldring, Shannon Poulsen and Erin Drouin. 2019. "Psychology, Political Ideology, and Humor Appreciation: Why is Satire so Liberal?" Psychology of Popular Media Culture. 8(2): 134-147.