Schoon, Eric W., David Melamed, and Ronald L. Breiger. Regression Inside Out. Cambridge University Press.
Maher, Thomas and Eric W. Schoon (eds). 2023. Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change. Emerald.
Articles, Chapters, and Comments
(* = equal authorship, alphabetically listed)
Schoon, Eric W. Forthcoming. "Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites." Sociological Methods & Research.
Schoon, Eric W. Forthcoming. “Comment on ‘Radical Habitus: Trajectories of Youth Radicalisation in Turkey’ by Mehmet Kurt.” Current Anthropology
Maher, Thomas V. and Eric W. Schoon. 2023. “Navigating Interests and Cultivating Innovation in the Study of Social Movements, Conflict, and Change.” Research in Social Movements, Conflict & Change.
Schoon, Eric W. 2022. "Operationalizing Legitimacy." American Sociological Review.
*Schoon, Eric W. and Colin J. Beck. 2021. "Repertoires of Terror: News Media Classification of Militant Groups, 1970-2013." Socius 7.
*Schoon, Eric W. and Robert VandenBerg. 2021. “Illegitimacy, Political Stability, and the Erosion of Alliances: Lessons from the End of Apartheid in South Africa.” Research in Social Movements, Conflict & Change
Schoon, Eric W., Alexandra Joosse and H. Brinton Milward. 2020. “Networks, Power, and the Effects of Legitimacy in Contentious Politics.” Sociological Perspectives. DOI: 10.1177/0731121419896808
Schoon, Eric W. and Scott Duxbury. 2019. “Robust Discourse and the Politics of Legitimacy: Framing International Intervention in the Syrian Civil War, 2011-2016.” Sociological Science, 6: 635-660.
*Asal, Victor R. Karl Rethemeyer, Eric W. Schoon. 2019. “Crime, Conflict and the Legitimacy Trade-off: Explaining Variation in Insurgents' Participation in Crime.” Journal of Politics 81(2): 399-410.
Schoon, Eric W., Ronald L. Breiger, David Melamed, Eunsung Yoon and Christopher Kleps. 2019. “Precluding rare outcomes by predicting their absence.” PLOS One 14(10): e0223239.
Schoon, Eric W. and A. Joseph West. 2018. “From Prophecy to Practice: Mutual Selection Cycles in the Routinization of Charismatic Authority.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 56(4): 781-797.
Schoon, Eric W. 2018. “Why Does Armed Conflict Begin Again? A New Analytic Approach.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 59(5).
Beck, Colin J. and Eric W. Schoon. 2018. “Terrorism and Social Movements.” Pp. 698-713 in Wiley- Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, 2nd Ed., edited by D. Snow, S. Soule, H. Kriesi, and H. McCammon. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
Schoon, Eric W. and Courtney DeRoche. 2018. “Ambiguity and Illegitimacy in Counterinsurgency: The Case of US Private Military and Security Contractors (PMSC) in Afghanistan.” In The Sociology of Privatized Security, edited by O. Swed and T. Crosbie. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave McMillan.
Schoon, Eric W. 2017. “Building Legitimacy: Interactional Dynamics and Popular Evaluations of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey.” Small Wars & Insurgencies 28(4): 734-754.
Schoon, Eric W. and Kathryn Freeman Anderson. 2017. “Rethinking the Boundaries: Competitive Threat and the Asymmetric Salience of Race/Ethnicity in Attitudes Towards Immigrants.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 3: 1-14.
Schoon, Eric W. 2016. “Rethinking Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Violent Political Conflict. Sociology Compass 10(2): 143-152.
Schoon, Eric W. 2015. “The Paradox of Legitimacy: Resilience, Successes, and the Multiple Identities of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in Turkey”. Social Problems 62(2): 266-285.
Guetzkow, Joshua and Eric W. Schoon. 2015. “If You Build It, They Will Fill It: The Consequences of Prison Overcrowding Litigation.” Law & Society Review 49(2): 401-432.
*Asal, Victor, H. Brinton Milward and Eric W. Schoon. 2015. “When Terrorists Go Bad: Analyzing Terrorist Organizations’ Involvement in Drug Smuggling.” International Studies Quarterly 59(1): 112-123.
Schoon, Eric W. 2014. “The Asymmetry of Legitimacy: Analyzing the Legitimacy of Violence in 30 Cases of Insurgent Revolution.” Social Forces 93(2): 779-801.
Breiger, Ronald L., Eric W. Schoon, David Melamed, Victor Asal and R. Karl Rethemeyer. 2014. "Comparative Configurational Analysis as a Two-Mode Network Problem: A study of terrorist group engagement in the drug trade." Social Networks 36(1): 23-39.
Melamed, David, Ronald L. Breiger and Eric W. Schoon. 2013. “The Duality of Clusters and Statistical Interactions.” Sociological Methods & Research 41(4).
Melamed, David, Eric W. Schoon, Ronald L. Breiger, Victor Asal, and R. Karl. Rethemeyer. 2012. "Using Organizational Similarity to Identify Statistical Interactions for Improving Situational Awareness of CBRN Activities". S.J. Yang, A.M. Greenberg,and M. Endsley, eds., Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7227: 61-68.
Breiger, Ronald L., Gary A. Ackerman, Victor Asal, David Melamed, H. Brinton Milward, R. Karl Rethemeyer, and Eric W. Schoon. 2011. “Application of a Profile Similarity Methodology for Identifying Terrorist Groups that Use or Pursue CBRN Weapons.” In J. Salerno, S.J. Yang, and S.-K. Chai, eds., Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6589: 26-33.
Schoon, Eric W. 2020. "From Barrett's confirmation to today's Election, everyone is debating 'legitimacy.' Here's what it means." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/03/barretts-confirmation-todays-election-everyone-is-debating-legitimacy-heres-what-it-means/)
Schoon, Eric W. and Corey Pech. 2019. “Why is American democracy in danger?” Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/03/05/why-is-american-democracy-danger/?utm_term=.7fb74cc088bf)
Lopez, Steven and Eric W. Schoon. 2017. “Legitimacy and Donald Trump.” Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/legitimacy-and-donald-trump_us_58a3349fe4b0e172783aa108).
Schoon, Eric W. 2016. “ISIS, Ideology, and the Illicit Drug Economy.” Political Violence @ a Glance (https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/07/24/isis-ideology-and-the-illicit-drug-economy/).
Schoon, Eric W. and Cindy Cain. 2011.c“Facebook’s Boundaries.” Contexts 10(2): 70-71.