Rate My Professor David Clark

Clark's research examines sources of political instability, including political protests, citizen mobilization against the state, and government reactions, as part of the Political Instability Task Force-supported Mass Mobilization Project covering global data from 1990 to 2014. He also investigates strategic sources of foreign policy choice, interstate bargaining, and experimental evaluations of bargaining models with conflict as the outside option. His scholarship has attracted substantial funding, such as National Science Foundation grant BCS #0904946 for $487,779 (2009–2012) on experimental analysis of conflict bargaining, NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research grant SES #0921149 for $10,524 (2009–2010), and multiple Political Instability Task Force awards totaling over $500,000 for projects like the Mass Mobilization Project ($183,000, 2014–2016) and Institutions and Elections Project. Key publications include "Substitution is in the Variance: Resources and Foreign Policy Choice" with Nordstrom and Reed (American Journal of Political Science, 2008), "Preying on the Misfortune of Others: When Do States Exploit Their Opponents’ Domestic Troubles?" with Fordham and Nordstrom (Journal of Politics, 2011), "An Experimental Analysis of Asymmetric Power in Conflict Bargaining" with Sieberg, Holt, Nordstrom, and Reed (Games, 2013), and co-edited special issue "Emerging Methodology in the Quantitative Study of Conflict" (Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2003). Clark has contributed datasets including the Institutions and Elections Project and received Dean’s Workshop Grants and Research Semester Award.