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Sabrina Karim

H-index: 19
Political science 49%
Sociology 30%
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
Multilateralism is not necessarily fading! There is still civilian support for it in different parts of the world. Using two sets of independent conjoint experiments, we show that civilians in Liberia prefer multilateral actors (the UN) to oversee (not rebuild) security sector reforms
cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social -

International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia - cup.org/47q06KN

- Cameron Mailhot & @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social

#FirstView
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gsslab.bsky.social
📣 Publication alert 📣

GSS Lab Director Dr. Sabrina Karim (@sabrinamkarim.bsky.social) and GSS Lab Fellow Dr. Cameron Mailhot have a new paper out on civilian preferences for international state building, utilizing survey evidence from Liberia.

Congratulations! 🎊

#polisky #int-rel
International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia | International Organization | Cambridge Core
International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
www.cambridge.org

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cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social -

International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia - cup.org/47q06KN

- Cameron Mailhot & @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social

#FirstView
Logo of the Open Access initiative featuring the letters "IO" in white on a dark green background, accompanied by the hashtag "#OpenAccess.
wsandholtz.bsky.social
Are you a researcher who hopes your work will shape policy?
*Consider policymakers' incentives!*
For a policy to have legs, politicians must believe it will help them win elections🗳️. But researchers often (willfully?) overlook this crucial detail. A 🧵 on my recent WP: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
School reform in Liberia improved test scores but lost votes by
Public service reforms can provoke political backlash from service providers, but when quality increases sufficiently, the electoral rewards can outweigh the costs
voxdev.org

Reposted by: Sabrina Karim

sharonk.bsky.social
www.military.com/daily-news/2...

a big part of this is that if they have a choice between having an integrated service that's inclusive or a divided service that's not, they'll opt for the latter because they believe that integration destroys institutions
jessicacalarco.com
This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...
To trust the polling, the trends are perhaps more distressing among those still too young to have even dipped their toes into the work force. According to the data analyst David Waldron’s assessment of the world-class Monitoring the Future Survey, run by the University of Michigan, in 2018, 84 percent of eighth- and 10th-grade boys said they agreed either “completely” or “mostly” that women should have the same job opportunities as men. Five years later, the number had fallen to 72 percent. The share who agreed “at all” that men and women should be paid the same money for the same work had fallen from 87 percent to 79 percent. The share who said they agreed “completely” with equal pay for equal work had fallen from 72 percent to 57 percent — just over half.
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
I’ll be working on salvaging as much as I can from my defunded NSF CAREER grant
davidimiller.bsky.social
🧪 Concrete evidence of political motives:

Out of 1044 NSF terminations so far, *not a single one* started under Trump 1.0. Zilch. Nada. 0%.

That is, all terminated NSF awards started Feb 1, 2021 or later after Biden took office.

Yet, Trump 1.0 awards still account for 15% of still-active awards.
Graph comparing % of NSF awards separated for those terminated vs. all active by award start year
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
I am so sorry to hear about the Journeys grant. It is such an amazing program and I learned so much from it.
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
Without this grant, we will lack crucial knowledge about the extent of police violence globally, about how to prevent it, and about how to transform police forces into agencies that protect civilians rather than perpetrate violence against them.
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
Finally, it included an educational component to train police officers from around the world on how they can work to mitigate police violence within their own agencies.
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
It also involved conducting the largest quantitative survey of police officers worldwide—including participants from Uruguay, Senegal, Zambia, Jordan, and many other countries—to understand how officers' experiences shape their decisions about using force.
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
Using these data, the project sought to identify the political causes of police violence and ways to mitigate it.
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
This project used large language models and machine learning to aggregate data on global police violence, uncovering the extent of the problem, geographic variation, and differences in types of violence.
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
All around the world, police forces commit violence against civilians on a daily basis—whether during protests, through extrajudicial killings, or in routine abuses during traffic stops.
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
After winning it, my plan was to dedicate the resulting book to him. Now, I am not sure that I will be able to finish the book. Aside from this loss, and the obvious job loss for my students and post-doc, each termination comes with a cost to losing knowledge.
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
This is the most prestigious award that the NSF gave out to junior scholars and something that my dad had always pushed me to apply for and hoped I would win.
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
Now, I am not sure that I will be able to finish the book. Aside from this loss, and the obvious job loss for my students and post-doc, each termination comes with a cost to losing knowledge.
sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
This is the most prestigious award that the NSF gave out to junior scholars and something that my dad had always pushed me to apply for and hoped I would win. After winning it, my plan was to dedicate the resulting book to him.

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egap.bsky.social
For this month's final member spotlight, check out our Q&A with @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social . The feature dives into her work on the role of gender inclusion & gender norms on police performance as well as citizen trust in security institutions. Read more: buff.ly/AX1x0YH
Q&A with Members: Gender and policing with Sabrina Karim – EGAP
Author: Max Méndez Beck
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uglogowsky.bsky.social
🚨 New #Publication: We tracked how policy and parenthood reshaped gender inequality in Germany from the 1960s to today. In early decades, only 14% of the gender gap was due to kids—now it's 64%.

How did children become the biggest factor? Thread🧵

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 with Hansen, @dominiksachs.bsky.social & Lüthen

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