Publications
Denny, Sean, Gabriel Englander, and Patrick Hunnicutt**. 2024. "Private management of African protected areas improves wildlife and tourism outcomes but with security concerns in conflict regions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hunnicutt, Patrick* and Kou M. Gbaintor-Johnson. 2023. "The Missing Link: Informal Political Elites and Protest in Areas of Limited Statehood." Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Hunnicutt, Patrick. 2023. "International Peacekeeping Encourages Extractive Sector Investment: Subnational Evidence from Liberia." Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Buntaine, Mark, Bing Zhang, and Patrick Hunnicutt. 2021. "Citizen Monitoring of Waterways Decreases Pollution in China by Supporting Government Action and Oversight." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Buntaine, Mark, Patrick Hunnicutt, and Polycarp Komakech. 2020. "The Challenges of Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Public Services: A Field Experiment on Solid Waste Services in Uganda." The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
Hunnicutt, Patrick** and William G. Nomikos. 2020. "Nationality, Gender, and Deployments at the Local Level: Introducing the RADPKO Dataset." International Peacekeeping 27 (4): 645-672.
O'Neill, Kate, Erika Weinthal , and Patrick Hunnicutt. 2017. “Seeing complexity: visualization tools in global environmental politics and governance.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 7: 490-506.
Hunnicutt, Patrick* and Kou M. Gbaintor-Johnson. 2023. "The Missing Link: Informal Political Elites and Protest in Areas of Limited Statehood." Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Hunnicutt, Patrick. 2023. "International Peacekeeping Encourages Extractive Sector Investment: Subnational Evidence from Liberia." Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Buntaine, Mark, Bing Zhang, and Patrick Hunnicutt. 2021. "Citizen Monitoring of Waterways Decreases Pollution in China by Supporting Government Action and Oversight." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Buntaine, Mark, Patrick Hunnicutt, and Polycarp Komakech. 2020. "The Challenges of Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Public Services: A Field Experiment on Solid Waste Services in Uganda." The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
Hunnicutt, Patrick** and William G. Nomikos. 2020. "Nationality, Gender, and Deployments at the Local Level: Introducing the RADPKO Dataset." International Peacekeeping 27 (4): 645-672.
O'Neill, Kate, Erika Weinthal , and Patrick Hunnicutt. 2017. “Seeing complexity: visualization tools in global environmental politics and governance.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 7: 490-506.
Under Review
"Peacebuilding in the Commons: United Nations Peacekeeping as Conflict Mitigation and Climate Adaptation." (with William Nomikos)*
"A Strategic Logic of Violence against United Nations Peacekeepers." (with William Nomikos and Rob Williams)**
"A Strategic Logic of Violence against United Nations Peacekeepers." (with William Nomikos and Rob Williams)**
Manuscripts In Preparation
"Does co-designing private service provision with community leaders improve citizen engagement? Experimental evidence from Liberia." (with Kou Gbaintor-Johnson)*
"Air pollution is associated with lower levels of social movement participation, especially among well-resourced communities." (with Geoffrey Henderson)*
"Environmental Injustice in Post-Conflict Settings: Evidence from Liberia's Waste Sector." (with Kou Gbaintor-Johnson)*
"Procedural concerns undermine extractive communities' support for environmental protection." (with Zoe Nemerever and Kal Munis)
"Air pollution is associated with lower levels of social movement participation, especially among well-resourced communities." (with Geoffrey Henderson)*
- Published as a UC-Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Working Paper
"Environmental Injustice in Post-Conflict Settings: Evidence from Liberia's Waste Sector." (with Kou Gbaintor-Johnson)*
- Abstract: We bring together journalistic accounts and qualitative data collected during two focus group discussions to demonstrate how environmental injustice can disrupt peacebuilding. We specifically trace how a World Bank-funded project to improve solid waste management in Liberia’s capital city of Monrovia enacted slow violence that sowed further distrust in the state and, ultimately, engendered grievances similar to those at the root of the country’s civil wars. Ultimately, we echo calls to more fully incorporate environmental justice into peacebuilding programs. Large infrastructure projects designed to enhance environmental service provision after conflict ends risk replicating the social conditions that led to conflict initially when they transform fenceline communities into sacrifice zones.
- Draft available upon request.
"Procedural concerns undermine extractive communities' support for environmental protection." (with Zoe Nemerever and Kal Munis)
- Abstract: Environmental politics research increasingly considers how to build support for environmental policy among communities whose residents heavily depend on natural resource industries. Missing from this growing literature is a robust discussion of procedural concerns, or how perceived inequalities in the processes used to craft and administer environmental policies can undermine support for them despite careful consideration regarding messaging strategies and/or policy design choices. We bridge research on environmental justice, collaborative governance, and rural politics to articulate how procedural inequalities amplifies extraction-dependent communities’ resistance to environmental policy. We illustrate these dynamics using original survey data from over 2400 respondents who live in rural US communities and conclude by offering a research agenda for testing how alternative decision-making processes might produce more durable coalitions for environmental policy action.
- Draft forthcoming.
(* = PH is first author, ** = authors made equal contributions)
Commentary and Policy Reports
"Pollution & Politics." On the Impolitic Podcast, w/Geoffrey Henderson, Jeffrey Treistman, and Matthew Schmidt.
Hunnicutt, Patrick. 2021. "Should UN Peacekeepers Help Regulate Conflict Minerals?" Political Violence at a Glance. May 6.
Nomikos, William, Melanie Sauter, Rob Williams, and Patrick Hunnicutt. 2020. "The Military Has Ousted Mali’s President. That Raises Questions about the Country's Ongoing Security Challenges." The Monkey Cage. August 26.
Hunnicutt, Patrick. 2021. "Should UN Peacekeepers Help Regulate Conflict Minerals?" Political Violence at a Glance. May 6.
Nomikos, William, Melanie Sauter, Rob Williams, and Patrick Hunnicutt. 2020. "The Military Has Ousted Mali’s President. That Raises Questions about the Country's Ongoing Security Challenges." The Monkey Cage. August 26.