The (police) agency problem: Police use of deadly force
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Colloquium with Professor Scott J. Cook who is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University, United States.
About Prof. Scott Jeffrey Cook
Prof. Cook is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Co-Director of the Program in Research Methods at Texas A&M University. His research and teaching focuses on quantitative methods and conflict processes. Specifically, his research addresses empirical challenges to inference in the analysis of political violence, including outcome interdependence, measurement error, and sparse data. His research has or will appear in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Political Science Research and Methods, and Journal of Peace Research.
Before joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he received his PhD in political science at the University of Pittsburgh. His thesis "Rare Events in International Relations: Modeling Heterogeneity and Interdependence with Sparse Data," was awarded the John T. Williams Dissertation Prize for the best proposal in political methodology.