All Stories

  1. Introduction

    Article • March 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Henry Thomson

  2. The bureaucratic politics of authoritarian repression: intra-agency reform and surveillance capacity in communist Poland

    Article • Political Science Research and Methods, November 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Henry Thomson

  3. The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion. By Mark R. Beissinger. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 592p. $99.95 cloth, $35.00 paper.

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, September 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Henry Thomson

  4. Urban Social Disorder 3.0: A global, city-level event dataset of political mobilization and disorder

    Article • Journal of Peace Research, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    Henry Thomson

  5. Authoritarian Repression and Electoral Opposition: Mobilization under Germany's Antisocialist Law

    Article • Comparative Politics, July 2022, Comparative Politics

    Henry Thomson

  6. Group organization, elections and urban political mobilization in the developing world

    Article • Democratization, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Henry Thomson

  7. Lord, Peasant … and Tractor? Agricultural Mechanization, Moore’s Thesis, and the Emergence of Democracy

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, July 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Henry Thomson

  8. On Feeding the Masses: An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure in China. By John K. Yasuda. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 272p. $99.99 cloth.

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, June 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Henry Thomson

  9. Response to John Yasuda’s Review of Food and Power: Regime Type, Agricultural Policy, and Political Stability

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, June 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Henry Thomson

  10. Conflict Termination and Urban Violence

    Article • Third World Thematics A TWQ Journal, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Henry Thomson

  11. Economic Grievances, Mobilization and Revolution in East Germany

    Article • Comparative Political Studies, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Henry Thomson

  12. Sanctioning Electoral Opposition: Repression and the Growth of German Social Democracy

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2018, Elsevier

    Henry Thomson

  13. Elite Responses to the 1953 Revolution in East Germany

    Article • East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, February 2017, SAGE Publications

    Henry Thomson

  14. Agricultural Policy under Democracy and Dictatorship

    Article • Comparative Politics, January 2017, Comparative Politics

    Henry Thomson

  15. Landholding Inequality and Civil Conflict

    Article • International Studies Quarterly, July 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Henry Thomson

  16. Landholding Inequality and Civil War

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Henry Thomson

  17. Learning to Target Authoritarian Sticks and Carrots: Mass Unrest, Repression and Food Policy in Socialist East Germany

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Henry Thomson

  18. General Deprivation, Attributable Grievances and Mass Unrest Under Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from the 17 June, 1953 Uprising in the German Democratic Republic

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Henry Thomson

  19. Landholding Inequality and Repression of Social Democrats in Imperial Germany

    Article • Studies in Comparative International Development, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Henry Thomson

  20. Food and Power: Agricultural Policy Under Democracy and Dictatorship

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Henry Thomson