Publications
Book:
J. Pierskalla. Democratization and the State. Competence, Control, and Performance in the Indonesian Civil Service, Cambridge Elements Political Economy Series, Cambridge University Press. 2022.
Articles and Book Chapters:
L. Paler, J. Springman, G. Grossman, and J. Pierskalla. “Oil Discoveries and Political Windfalls: Evidence on Presidential Support in Uganda.” Political Science Research & Methods, 2023.
V. Chlouba, J. Pierskalla, and E. Wibbels. “Historical Exposure to Statehood, Ethnic Exclusion, and Government Legitimacy.” Journal of Historical Political Economy, 3(1): 125-160. 2023.
A. De Juan, F. Haass, and J. Pierskalla. The partial effectiveness of indoctrination in autocracies: Evidence from a natural experiment in the German Democratic Republic. World Politics, 73 (4): pp.593-628. 2021.
J. Pierskalla, A. Lauretig, D. Rosenberg, and A. Sacks. Democratization and Representative Bureaucracy—An Analysis of Promotion Patterns in Indonesia’s Civil Service, 1980-2015., American Journal of Political Science, 65 (2): 261-277. Winner of the 2018 APSA-SEAPRG Best Paper Award (prior working paper version). 2021.
J. Pierskalla and A. Sacks. Personnel Politics: Elections, Clientelistic Competition, and Teacher Hiring in Indonesia., British Journal of Political Science, 50 (4): pp. 1283–1305. 2020.
A. De Juan, J. Pierskalla, and E. Schwarz. Natural Disasters, Aid Distribution, and Social Unrest—Micro-Level Evidence from the 2015 Earthquake in Nepal., World Development, 126 (February). 2020.
J. Pierskalla. The Proliferation of Decentralized Governing Units, in: Decentralized Governance and Accountability: Academic Research and the Future of Donor Programming, Edited by Jonathan Rodden and Erik Wibbels, Cambridge University Press. 2019.
J. Pierskalla, A. De Juan, and M. Montgomery. The Territorial Expansion of the Colonial State: Evidence from German East Africa 1890–1909., British Journal of Political Science, 49 (2): 711–737. 2019.
J. Pierskalla and A. Sacks. Unpaved Road Ahead: The Consequences of Election Cycles for Capital Expenditures., Journal of Politics, 80 (2): 510-524. 2018.
F. Hollenbach and J. Pierskalla. A Re-Assessment of Reporting Bias in Event-Based Violence Data with Respect to Cell Phone Coverage., Research & Politics, 4 (3). 2017.
J. Pierskalla, A. Schultz, and E. Wibbels. Order, Distance, and Local Development Over the Long-Run., Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 12 (4): 375–404. 2017.
S. Dettman, T. Pepinsky, and J. Pierskalla. Incumbency Advantage and Candidate Characteristics in Open-List Proportional Representation Systems: Evidence from Indonesia., Electoral Studies, 48 (August): 111—120. 2017.
G. Grossman, J. Pierskalla, and E. Boswell Dean. Government Fragmentation and Public Goods Provision., Journal of Politics, 79 (3): 823—840. 2017.
T. Pepinsky, J. Pierskalla, and A. Sacks. Bureaucracy and Service Delivery., Annual Review of Political Science, 20: 249–268. 2017.
A. De Juan and J. Pierskalla. The Comparative Politics of Colonialism and Colonial Legacies: Research Frontiers., Introduction to the Special Issue. Politics & Society, 45 (2): 159–172. 2017.
A. De Juan, F. Krautwald, and J. Pierskalla. Constructing the State: Macro Strategies, Micro Incentives, and the Creation of Police Forces in Colonial Namibia., Politics & Society, 45 (2): 269–299. 2017.
J. Pierskalla and A. Sacks. Unpacking the Effect of Decentralization on Routine Violence: Lessons from Indonesia., World Development, 90 (February): 213–228. 2017.
M. Basedau, J. Fox, J. Pierskalla, G. Strüver, and J. Vüllers. Does discrimination breed grievances – and do grievances breed violence? New evidence from an analysis of religious minorities in developing countries., Conflict Management & Peace Science, 34 (3): 217–239. 2017.
C. Koos and J. Pierskalla. The Effects of Oil Production and Ethnic Representation on Violent Conflict in Nigeria: A Mixed-Method Approach., Terrorism and Political Violence, 28 (5): 888-911. 2016.
J. Pierskalla. The Politics of Urban Bias: Rural Threats and the Dual Dilemma of Political Survival., Studies in Comparative International Development, 51 (3): 286–307. 2016.
J. Pierskalla. Splitting the Difference? The Politics of District Creation in Indonesia., Comparative Politics, 48 (2): 249–268. 2016.
A. De Juan and J. Pierskalla. Civil War Violence and Political Trust: Micro-level Evidence from Nepal., Conflict Management & Peace Science. 33 (1): 67–88. 2016.
A. De Juan, J. Pierskalla, and J. Vüllers. The Pacifying Effects of Local Religious Institutions: An Analysis of Communal Violence in Indonesia., Political Research Quarterly. 68 (2): 211–224. 2015.
A. Mähler and J. Pierskalla. Indigenous Identity, Natural Resources and Contentious Politics in Bolivia: A Disaggregated Conflict Analysis 2000-2011., Comparative Political Studies, 48 (3): 301–322. 2015.
A. De Juan and J. Pierskalla. Manpower to Coerce and Co-opt – State Capacity and Political Violence in Southern Sudan 2006-2010., Conflict Management & Peace Science, 32 (2): 175–199. 2015.
B. Barber, J. Pierskalla, and S. Weschle. Lobbying and the Collective Action Problem: Comparative Evidence from Enterprise Surveys., Business & Politics, 16 (2): 221–246. 2014.
Z. Hasnain, N. Manning, and J. Pierskalla. The Promise of Performance Pay? Reasons for Caution in Policy Prescriptions in the Core Civil Service., World Bank Research Observer, 29 (2): 235–264. A prior version has appeared as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6043. 2014.
M. Basedau and J. Pierskalla. How Ethnicity Conditions the Effect of Oil and Gas on Civil Conflict: A Spatial Analysis of Africa from 1990 to 2010., Political Geography, 38 (1): 1–11. 2014.
S. Zeigler, J. Pierskalla, and S. Mazumder. War and the Re-election Motive: Examining the Effect of Term Limits., Journal of Conflict Resolution, 58 (4): 658–684. 2014.
J. Pierskalla and F. Hollenbach. Technology and Collective Action: The Effect of Cell Phone Coverage on Political Violence in Africa., American Political Science Review, 107 (2): 207–224. 2013.
J. Pierskalla. Protest, Deterrence and Escalation: The Strategic Calculus of Government Repression., Journal of Conflict Resolution, 54 (1): 117–145. 2010.