Peter D Carey II is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Merced. He studies political violence between governments and protestors using a broad range of methodological techniques including formal modelling and quantitative methods. His dissertation focuses on how governments perceive and respond to dissident threat by looking at what makes groups threatening to governments, how governments deal with multiple threatening groups, and how changes to this threat environment influence governments’ repressive decisions. This dissertation is part of a broader research agenda on conflict processes, with work investigating how oil discoveries influence repression, how the media impacts governments’ ability to make credible threats, and how civilians understand and respond to political violence.
