Robert J. Carroll
I’m a political scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I teach courses in international relations, political economy, and formal modeling.
Contact
Email: rjc AT illinois dot edu
Working papers
- Fighting in the shadow of intervention: a learned-proxy analysis
- Policy devolution and cooperation dilemmas (with Chris Reenock and David Konisky)
- Making peace on the cheap
- Sunspot volatility and the price of peace
- The shape of possible states
- Preferring unified theories
- The causal content of game-theoretic models
- A theory of force
- Policy spaces as organizational schemes: a semantic theory of electoral competition
- A state is its relations: the Yoneda lemma and relational identity in international relations
Published work
Strategic avoidance and rulemaking procedures (with Peter Bils and Lawrence Rothenberg) Journal of Theoretical Politics 36(2): 156–185. 2024.
Costly signaling in autocracy (with Amy Pond) International Interactions 47(4): 612–632. 2021.
Prediction, proxies, and power (with Brenton Kenkel) American Journal of Political Science 63(3): 577–593. 2019.
Using item response theory to improve measurement in strategic management research: An application to corporate social responsibility (with David Primo and Brian Kelleher Richter) Strategic Management Journal 37(1): 66–85. 2016.