David A. Lindsey
Department of Political Science
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0521
dlindsey@ucsd.edu
www.davidalindsey.com
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Education
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University of California, San Diego
Ph.D., Political Science, expected Spring 2016
Dissertation: Essays on Information and Conflict
Fields: International Relations, Methodology
Dissertation Committee: Branislav Slantchev, David Lake, J. Lawrence Broz, Jesse Driscoll, Eli
Berman
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Georgetown University
B.S. in Foreign Service, May 2011
Major: International Politics
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St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Visiting Student, 2009-2010
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Publications
1. David Lindsey, “Military Strategy, Private Information, and War,” International Studies
Quarterly (forthcoming).
2. David Lindsey and William Hobbs, “Presidential Effort and International Outcomes:
Evidence for an Executive Bottleneck,” Journal of Politics (forthcoming).
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Working Papers
1. David Lindsey, “Willful Ignorance in Coercive Bargaining.”
2. David Lindsey, “Diplomacy Through Agents: Delegation and Credibility in International
Communication.”
3. David Lindsey and David A. Lake, “The Moral Foundations of Individual-Level Foreign
Policy Preferences.”
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Works in Progress
1. David Lindsey, “The Intervention Dilemma”
2. David Lindsey, “Mutual Optimism and Costly Conflict: The Case of Naval Battles in the
Age of Sail”
3. David Lindsey, “Military Casualties, Social Capital, and Public Goods”
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Conference Presentations
• 2016: Formal Models of International Relations Conference (scheduled)
• 2015: American Political Science Association, International Studies Association
• 2014: American Political Science Association
• 2013: American Political Science Association, International Political Economy Society,
Midwest Political Science Association
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Teaching Experience
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Lab or Section Instructor
Graduate: POLI 204B, Quantitative Methods (Fall 2014)
Undergraduate: POLI 11, Introduction to Comparative Politics (Fall 2013); POLI 12,
Introduction to International Relations (Spring 2015); POLI 30, Political Inquiry (Fall 2012,
Winter 2013, Winter 2015)
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Grader
Graduate: POLI 204C, Game Theory (Spring 2014)
Undergraduate: POLI 120A, Political Development of Western Europe (Winter 2014); POLI
136, Religion and Politics (Spring 2013)