Scott Gates (academic)


Scott Gates is an American political scientist and economist based in Norway. He was director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo 's Centre for the Study of Civil War, which was a Norwegian Center of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway for a twelve-year period 2002-2013. He is currently a Research Professor at PRIO, a Guest Researcher at ESOP in the Department of Economics at the University in Oslo and also holds a professorship in the Department of Political science at the University of Oslo. He used to work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Michigan State University.
His current research topics include Rise of China, Islamic State and Police Brutality. His previous research includes Applied Game Theoretic Analysis, International Relations Theory, International Political Economy, Formal Models of Bureaucracy and Economic Modeling.
Gates holds a BA in political science and anthropology from the University of Minnesota, an MA in political science from the University of Michigan, an MSc in applied economics from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan.
He moved to Norway in 2003, was a visiting research fellow at PRIO from 1997 to 1999 and continued as program leader and research professor until 2002, when he was appointed director of the CSCW. He has also held assistant and associate professorships at Michigan State University.
Gates was accepted in the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 2008. He is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Selected publications

Books (Monographs)

  1. Gates, Scott and Kaushik, Roy. 2014. ' Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
  2. Brehm, John and Scott Gates. 2008. Paperback issued in 2010. ' A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
  3. Fink, Evelyn, Scott Gates, and Brian D. Humes. 1998. ' London: Sage Publications.
  4. Brehm, John and Scott Gates. 1997. Paperback issued in 1999. ' Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
  5. Gates, Scott and Brian D. Humes. 1997. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

    Journal Articles

  6. Gates, Scott, Benjamin Graham, Yonatan Lupu, Håvard Strand, and Kaare Strøm. Forthcoming 2016. Powersharing, Protection, and Peace. '.
  7. Strøm, Kaare Wallace, Benjamin Graham, Håvard Strand, and Scott Gates. Forthcoming 2015. Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraint: Powersharing in the World’s States, 1975 – 2010. .
  8. Kim, Woosang and Scott Gates. 2015. . International Area Studies Review. 18: 219 – 226.
  9. Gates, Scott and Sukanya Podder. 2015. Social Media, Recruitment, Allegiance, and the Islamic State. '. 9: 107 – 116.
  10. Brehm, John and Scott Gates. 2015. Bureaucratic Politics rising from, Not Defined by, a Principal-Agency Dyad. '. 25 : 27 – 42.
  11. Gates, Scott and Håvard Mokleiv Nygård. 2013. Soft Power at Home and Abroad: Sport Diplomacy, Politics, and Peace-building. '.16: 235 – 243.
  12. Binningsbø, Helga Malmin, Cyanne Loyle, Scott Gates, and Jon Elster. 2012. Armed Conflict and Post-Conflict Justice, 1946 – 2006. A Dataset. '. 49: 731 – 740.
  13. Gates, Scott, Håvard Hegre, Håvard Nygård, and Håvard Strand. 2012. The Development Consequences of Civil Conflict. World Development. 40 : 1713 – 1722.
  14. Butler, Christopher and Scott Gates. 2012. African Range Wars: Climate, Conflict, and Property Rights. '. 49: 23 – 34.
  15. Rustad, Siri Aas, Halvard Buhaug, Åshild Falch, and Scott Gates. 2011. All Politics Is Local. Modeling Subnational Variation in Conflict. '. 28: 15 – 40.
  16. Butler, Christopher and Scott Gates. 2009. Asymmetry, Parity, and War: Can International Theories of Power Help Us Understand Civil War. '. 35: 330 – 40.
  17. Buhaug, Halvard, Scott Gates, and Päivi Lujala. 2009. Geography, Rebel Capability and the Duration of Civil Conflict. '. 53: 544 – 569.
  18. Buhaug, Halvard, Scott Gates, Håvard Hegre, Håvard Strand, & Henrik Urdal. 2009. Nils Petter Gleditsch: A Lifetime Achiever. European Political Science. 8: 79 – 89.
  19. Gates, Scott, Håvard Hegre, Mark Jones, and Håvard Strand. 2006. Institutional Inconsistency and Political Instability: Polity Duration, 1800 – 2000. . 50: 33 – 48.
  20. Fredriksson, Per G., Eric Neumayer, Scott Gates, and Richard Damania. 2005. Environmentalism, Democracy, and Pollution Control. . 49:343 – 365.
  21. Murshed, S. Mansoob and Scott Gates. 2005. Spatial-horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal. Review of Development Economics. 9: 121 – 134.
  22. Buhaug, Halvard and Scott Gates. 2002. The Geography of Civil War. '. 39: 417 – 433.
  23. Gates, Scott. 2002. Recruitment and Allegiance: The Microfoundations of Rebellion. '. 46: 111 – 130.
  24. Hegre, Håvard, Tanja Ellingsen, Scott Gates, and Nils Petter Gleditsch. 2001. Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816 – 1992. '. 95: 33 – 48.
  25. Mitchell, Sara McLaughlin, Scott Gates, and Håvard Hegre. 1999. Evolution in Democracy-War Dynamics. '. 43: 771 – 792.
  26. McLaughlin, Sara, Scott Gates, Håvard Hegre, Ranveig Gissinger, and Nils Petter Gleditsch. 1998. Timing the Changes in Political Structures: A New Polity Database. ' 42: 231 – 242.
  27. Gates, Scott and Mark Lanier. 1996. Incarcerated Youth At Risk: An Empirical Assessment of the AIDS Risk Reduction Model Employing Ordered Probit Analyses. '. 24: 537 – 547.
  28. Gates, Scott, Torbjørn Knutsen, and Jonathon Moses. 1996. Democracy and Peace: A More Skeptical View. '. 33: 1 – 10.
  29. Gates, Scott and Jeffrey Hill. 1995. Democratic Accountability and Governmental Innovation in the Use of Non-Profit Organizations. '. 14: 137 – 148.
  30. Gates, Scott and Sherry Bennett Quiñones. 1995. Economic Risk and the Politics of Protectionism. '. 21: 63 – 83.
  31. Brehm, John and Scott Gates. 1994. When Supervision Fails to Induce Compliance. ' 6: 323 – 343.
  32. Brehm, John and Scott Gates. 1993. Donut Shops and Speed Traps: Evaluating Models of Police Supervision. '. 37: 555 – 581.

    Research Topics

  33. Research relevant to current affairs: , and .
  34. Research Topics: Applied Game Theoretic Analysis, International Relation Theory, International Political Economy, Formal Models of Bureaucracy, and Economic Modelling.
  35. Gates research interests include: Governance, Bureaucracies and Organizations, Conflict Dynamics, and The Development Consequences of Warfare.