Research

A Bargaining Theory of Criminal War 

Sarah Z. Daly and Elena Barham

International Studies Quarterly (2024)

Vaccine Diplomacy: How COVID-19 vaccine distribution increases trust in foreign governments in Latin America

Elena Barham, Sarah Z. Daly, Julian Gerez, John Marshall, and Oscar Pocasangre 

World Politics (2023) 

Teaching the hidden curriculum in Political Science 

Elena Barham and Colleen Wood

PS: Political Science & Politics (2022)

Messaging interventions that increase COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: Evidence from online experiments in six Latin American countries

Pablo Argote Tironi, Elena Barham, Sarah Z. Daly, Julian Gerez, John Marshall, and Oscar Pocasangre 

pLoS ONE (2021)

The shot, the message, and the messenger: COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Latin America

Pablo Argote Tironi, Elena Barham, Sarah Z. Daly, Julian Gerez, John Marshall, and Oscar Pocasangre 

npj Vaccines (2021) 

Complicit states and the governing strategy of privilege violence: When weakness is not the problem 

Rachel Kleinfeld and Elena Barham

Annual Review of Political Science (2018)

Border Externalization and Violence Along Migration Routes: Evidence from "Remain in Mexico", with Marco Alcocer. Under review.

Green Coalitions: Democracy, Civil Society, and Protected Areas in Latin America, with Ella Bayi and María Victoria Murillo. Under review.

Building Trust, Undermining Control: Conflicting Effects of Law Enforcement for State Consolidation in Peru, with Julian Gerez. Under review.

Building Security from Below: Communal Institutions and Violence in Criminal War. Submitted.

Uprooting the Gang: Public housing demolitions, organizational decline, and gang violence in Chicago, with Sarah Z. Daly.  Working paper.

Intersectional Vulnerability in Criminal War: Violence Against Indigenous Women in Mexico.  Working paper. 

Gendered Inequality in Indigenous Governance: Evidence from Mexico, with Edgar Franco-Vivanco and Johanna Reyes Ortega. Working paper. 

Separate Spheres: Criminal Violence and the Gender Divide in Latin America, with Omar García-Ponce and Isabel Laterzo-Tingley.  Working paper. 

The Autocratic Origins of Security Sector Criminality. Book manuscript in progress.

Internal Colonization Programs and the Weak Incorporation Trap: Evidence from Brazil, with Ella Bayi and Andres Uribe.  Work in progress.

State Legitimacy and Criminal Communication, with Marco Alcocer and Leticia Claro Oliveria. Work in progress. 

Weaponizing the Journey: Enforcement-Induced Vulnerability for Migrants in Transit, with Marco Alcocer. Work in progress.