Kellogg Dissertation Year Fellow Hannah Early Bagdanov has published a solo-authored article in the American Political Science Review (APSR), the discipline’s flagship journal.
Her article, “State Legitimacy and Sector-Level Claim-Making: Evidence from East Jerusalem,” draws on extensive fieldwork and original survey data to develop a novel theory of how civilians decide whether to engage with state institutions in contexts of contested sovereignty. Bagdanov shows that individuals’ choices vary across different sectors of the state, depending on whether engagement is seen as legitimizing state claims to rule.
The article, which highlights everyday political behavior among Palestinians in East Jerusalem, contributes to literatures on claim-making, civilian agency in conflict, and state legitimacy.
Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association, the piece is available open access, making it freely accessible to readers worldwide.
Bagdanov is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Notre Dame whose research examines civilian–state relations in conflict and contested settings.