Why Do Bloodstained Groups Win Postwar Elections?

Sarah Z. Daly

Sarah Zukerman Daly (Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD, 2011) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Before her current position, she held posts at Princeton University, the University of Notre Dame and Stanford University. Her research interests include political and criminal violence, peace processes, electoral politics, transitional justice, ethnic politics, and Latin America. Her book, Organized Violence After Civil War: The Geography of Recruitment in Latin America, received an Honorable Mention for the Conflict Research Society’s Best Book of the Year Prize in 2017 and is widely read and reviewed. She has received many awards, including the Lucian Pye Award for the Best Dissertation in Political Science and the Minerva-United States Institute of Peace, Peace and Security Early Career Scholar Award. You can find her on Twitter @sarahzdaly.