The shortest answer is doing. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. The hosting of open access datasets.

The Computational Event Data System uses automated coding of English-language news reports to generate political event data focusing on the Middle East, Balkans, and West Africa. These data are used in statistical early warning models to predict political change. The twenty-five-year project was originally based in the Department of Political Science. At the University of Kansas.

Reflections on social science, politics and education. Is Trump pulling a Colbert on the Republican Party? July 9, 2015. And put other Republican presidential hopefuls now a not insignificant percentage of the entire party in uncomfortable positions. The whole thing is almost too good to be true.

Publications, Papers Policy Briefs. Non-state violent actors need resources some combination of people, money, weapons, and territory to sustain their activities. This theme develops new data on how such actors finance their violence from natural resources and crime to analyze how variation in the source and scale of such finance influences their strategic choices and violent behavior.