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Lindsey Pruett

@pruett.bsky.social

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Assistant professor of pol sci @LSU. State-building, policing, civ-mil, and colonialism, mostly in West Africa. www.lindseypruett.com

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Lindsey Pruett @pruett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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African Politics Conference Group @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The APCG Colloquium has another session featuring the work of Satoru Hiramatsu (UC Riverside) on July 16 from 1pm to 2pm (EDT). Sign up to read and discuss the paper, which uses @afrobarometer.bsky.social data and African philosophy to understand voting in Africa. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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APCG Online Colloquium: Satoru Hiramatsu (July 16, 2026)

Please fill out your information below if you would like to receive instructions for participating in the APCG Online Colloquium featuring the work of Satoru Hiramatsu (UC Riverside) on Thursday July ...

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Lindsey Pruett @pruett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In a new paper, @royaizadi.bsky.social and I show that military involvement in the economy lowers the risk of mutinies. Military businesses lead to rent-seeking among the rank-and-file, and soldiers are loathe to risk access to private goodies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Lindsey Pruett @pruett.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Exactly how many children have to starve to death because Fox & Friends hate gay people? 10,000? 2 million? 8? More if they're African?

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Lindsey Pruett @pruett.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Does infrastructure always strengthen the state? It's messy! At the @thejop.bsky.social, I show how railway expansion upended conditions of social control in unexpected ways, and find people were more likely to evade the draft in railway districts. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Alex Dyzenhaus @dyzenhaus.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

New article with @pruett.bsky.social @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social + Freeman on a violence prevention program in the 2017 Liberian election. We find the main driver of attitudinal changes among key actors was the experience of a peaceful election polisky afripolsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Lindsey Pruett @pruett.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

@profmusgrave.bsky.social Hi! Can you add me to polisky?

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