New article in APSR

My new article “Imperfect Victims? Civilian Men, Vulnerability, and Policy Preferences,” co-authored with Mattias Agerberg, is now published in the American Political Science review. In different survey experiments among the U.S. public – and with replications in the UK – we show that respondents underestimate the extent of men’s victimization and vulnerability in war, perceive male civilian victims in war as less innocent than their female counterparts, and that respondents hold anti-male biases when it comes to humanitarian aid and refugee provision. Informing respondents of the vulnerability of male civilians to gender-selective violence reduces these anti-male biases but does not obliterate them. These findings corroborate a growing body of research that discusses how civilian men are overlooked as victims in war, in both policy discourses and humanitarian responses. The full article, open access, is available here.