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I am working with a regional development bank on an assessment for a country that is emerging from civil war and has just gone through a liberalization that falls well short of democratization. I’d been asked to provide an assessment of governance trends looking at macro indicators of performance—most of which are very negative. Moreover, …

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I submitted a blog post to a website based on my research on the links between online radicalization and domestic terrorism. The editors said my text was too detailed and nuanced, and cut several short paragraphs. But in the sections that were cut I described that while my findings were weakly statistically significant, the potential …

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My research focuses on human rights issues related to extractive industries and mining in the developing world. I’ve been asked by a prominent mining company to appear on a panel discussion at one their annual shareholder meeting. They have offered to pay my expenses for attendance and a $2,000 honorarium for my time and effort. …

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