Prof. Sabine C. Carey, Ph.D.

Sabine Carey (Copyright “Elfengraphie”, www.elfengraphie.de)
Director of the MZES and Project Director
sabine.carey [at] uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2882
Fax: 
+49-621-181-2845
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2868
Postal Address
University Mannheim
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim
A 5, 6, Building B
Room:120
68159  Mannheim

Projects

B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

B1.2018
Security Threats and Fragile Commitments: Stress-Testing Public Support for Human Rights at Home and Abroad

B3 Democratic Multilevel Governance and Europeanization

B3.2213
The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative and European Attitudes towards Human Rights

RP9 BI Associated Projects

RP9
Repression and the Escalation of Violence (RATE)

RP8 B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance

RP8
Peace and Conflict Escalation: Dynamics of Peace and Armed Conflict
RP8
When African Parties Abandon Clientelism

RP8 B3 Democratic Multi-level Governance

RP8
The EU and the Promotion of Human Rights

Publications

Journal Articles

Carey, Sabine C. (2024): Borders and bullies: How borders shape perceptions of security and foreign policy preferences.. Research and Politics, 11, issue 2. more
Carey, Sabine C. (2024): Borders and bullies: How borders shape perceptions of security and foreign policy preferences.. Research and Politics, 11, issue 2. more
Carey, Sabine C., Belén González and Neil J. Mitchell (2023): Media freedom and the escalation of state violence. Political Studies, 71, issue 2, pp. 440–462. more
Carey, Sabine C., Belén González and Christian Gläßel (2022): Divergent Perceptions of Peace in Post-Conflict Societies: Insights from Sri Lanka. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 66, issue 9, pp. 1589-1618. more
Carey, Sabine C., Neil J. Mitchell and Katrin Paula (2022): The Life, Death, and Diversity of Pro-Government Militias: The Fully Revised Pro-Government Militias Database Version 2.0. Research and Politics, 9, issue 1, pp. 1-9. more
Carey, Sabine C., and Belén González (2021): The legacy of war: The effect of militias on postwar repression. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 38, issue 3, pp. 247–269. more
Carey, Sabine C., and Anita R. Gohdes (2021): Understanding journalist killings. The Journal of Politics, 83, issue 4, pp. 1216-1228. more
Steinert, Christoph, Janina Steinert and Sabine C. Carey (2019): Spoilers of peace: Pro-government militias as risk factors for conflict recurrence. Journal of Peace Research, 56, issue 2, pp. 249-263. more
Carey, Sabine C., and Neil J. Mitchell (2017): Progovernment Militias. Annual Review of Political Science, 20, issue 1, pp. 127–147. more
Gohdes, Anita R., and Sabine C. Carey (2017): Canaries in the Coal Mine: What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression. Journal of Peace Research, 54, issue 2, pp. 157–174. more
Carey, Sabine C., Michael P. Colaresi and Neil J. Mitchell (2016): Risk Mitigation, Regime Security, and Militias: Beyond Coup-proofing. International Studies Quarterly, 60, issue 1, pp. 59-72. more
Carey, Sabine C., Michael P. Colaresi and Neil J. Mitchell (2015): Governments, Informal Links to Militias, and Accountability. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 59, issue 5, pp. 850-876. more
Carey, Sabine C., Neil J. Mitchell and William E. M. Lowe (2013): States, the security sector, and the monopoly on violence: A new database on pro-government militias. Journal of Peace Research, 50, issue 2, pp. 249-258. more
Carey, Sabine C., Christian Gläßel and Katrin Paula Media impact on perceptions in postwar societies: Insights from Nepal. Conflict Management and Peace Science, (publ. online before print). more

Web Publications

Carey, Sabine C. (2021): The Promises and Perils of Pro-Government Militias in Armed Conflicts, PeaceLab-Blog, https://peacelab.blog/2021/04/the-promises-and-perils-of-pro-government-militias-in-armed-conflicts (04/2021) more
Carey, Sabine C., and Neil J. Mitchell (2016): Pro-Government Militias and Armed Conflict, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics more
Carey, Sabine C., Michael P. Colaresi and Neil J. Mitchell (2015): The Silk Road to Insecurity: Why Not Public-Private Collaboration in the Security Sector?, Political Violence @ a Glance, http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/09/04/the-silk-road-to-insecurity-why-not-public-private-collaboration-in-the-security-sector/ more
Mitchell, Neil J., and Sabine C. Carey (2014): Informal counterinsurgency from Iraq to Nigeria: Who pays the price?, Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/12/22/informal-counterinsurgency-from-iraq-to-nigeria-who-pays-the-price/ more

Conference Presentations

Carey, Sabine C., Anita R. Gohdes and Neil J. Mitchell (2023): Autocrats and their Auxiliary Forces. [13th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Glasgow, June 22nd to June 24th, 2023] more
Carey, Sabine C., Anita R. Gohdes and Neil J. Mitchell (2023): Autocrats and their Auxiliary Forces. [119th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, August 31st to September 03rd, 2023] more
Carey, Sabine C., Anita R. Gohdes and Neil J. Mitchell (2023): Explaining the ability of pro-government militias to bolster leadership survival. [The Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship, Münster, February 23rd to February 25th, 2023] more
Carey, Sabine C., Marcela Ibanez and Eline Drury Lovlien (2023): The long shadow of the past? Conflict legacy and perceived police effectiveness in Northern Ireland. [13th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Glasgow, June 22nd to June 24th, 2023] more
Carey, Sabine C., and Anita Gohdes (2015): Killing bad news: International accountability and the treatment of the press. [Workshop on The Political Economy of Inequality and Conflict, University of Konstanz, July 16th to July 17th, 2015] more
Carey, Sabine C. (2015): Why Governments Use Militias in their Own Countries. [Meeting of Scholarship Holders of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), University of Mannheim, May 08th to May 10th, 2015] more
Gohdes, Anita, and Sabine C. Carey (2015): Canaries in a Coal-mine? Predicting Changes in State Repression with Treatment of the Press. [5th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, June 25th to June 27th, 2015] more
Rauschenbach, Mascha, and Sabine C. Carey (2013): Targeting Contested Constituencies: How Spatial Patterns of Political Support Determine the Use of Negative Campaigning. [41st Joint Sessions of Workshops “Going Dirty: Negative Campaigning in Elections and Referenda and its Effects on Citizens’ Attitudes and Behaviour", Johannes-Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, March 11th to March 16th, 2013] more