Henry Thomson

Books

2024. Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, the Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe (New York: Cambridge University Press).

2019. Food and Power: Regime Type, Agricultural Policy and Political Stability (New York: Cambridge University Press).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Forthcoming. "The Green Revolution Is Not Always Bloodless: Agricultural Modernization and Rural Conflict in Brazil" (with David Samuels). World Development.

2024. "The Bureaucratic Politics of Authoritarian Repression: Intra-Agency Reform and Surveillance Capacity in Communist Poland" in Political Science Research and Methods 12(4): 767-782.

2023. "Urban Social Disorder 3.0: A Global, City-Level Dataset on Political Mobilization and Disorder" in Journal of Peace Research 60(3): 521-531.

2022. "Authoritarian Repression and Electoral Opposition: Mobilization Under Germany’s Antisocialist Law" in Comparative Politics 54(4): 621-643.

2021. "Lord, Peasant... and Tractor? Agricultural Mechanization, Moore's Thesis and the Emergence of Democracy" (with David Samuels) in Perspectives on Politics 19(3): 739-753.

2021. "Agricultural Mechanization, Moore's Thesis and Rural Elites' Attitudes Towards Democracy in Asia" (with David Samuels) in Taiwan Journal of Democracy 17(1): 1-20.

2021. "Group Organization, Elections and Urban Social Disorder in the Developing World" (with Henrik Urdal, Halvard Buhaug and Elisabeth Rosvold) in Democratization 28(8): 1525-1534.

2019. "Conflict Termination, Signals of State Weakness and Violent Urban Social Disorder in the Developing World." in Third World Thematics 4(2-3): 94-113.

2018. “Grievances, Mobilization and Mass Opposition to Authoritarian Regimes: A Sub National Analysis of East Germany’s 1953 Abbreviated Revolution.” In Comparative Political Studies 51(12): 1594-1627.

2017. “Food and Power: Agricultural Policy Under Democracy and Dictatorship.” In Comparative Politics 49(2):273-293.

2017. “Repression, Redistribution and the Problem of Authoritarian Control: Responses to the 17 June Uprising in Socialist East Germany.” In East European Politics & Societies 31(1): 68-92.

2016. “Rural Grievances, Landholding Inequality and Civil Conflict.” In International Studies Quarterly 60(3):511-519. Winner, best paper in International Relations, MPSA 2016.

2015. “Landholding Inequality, Political Strategy, and Authoritarian Repression: Structure and Agency in Bismarck’s ‘Second Founding’ of the German Empire.” In Studies in Comparative International Development 50(1):73-97.

Book Chapters

2022. "Globalization's Nationalist Future: Migration, Citizenship and the Pandemic" in Shelley and McNamara (Eds.), Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press).

2020. "The Authoritarian Governor's Dilemma: Controlling the Secret Police in Socialist Poland and East Germany" in Abbott, Zangl, Snidal and Genschel (Eds.), The Governor's Dilemma: Indirect Governance Beyond Principals and Agents (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

2013. “Universal, Unequal Suffrage: Authoritarian Vote-Seat Malapportionment in the1907 Austrian Electoral Reform.” In Marija Wakounig and Markus P. Beham (eds.), Transgressing Boundaries: Humanities in Flux (Vienna: LIT Verlag).