PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Morse, B. 2025. "Strengthening the Rule of Law through Community Policing: Evidence from Liberia." Comparative Political Studies. pdf
Blair, G., Christia, F., Weinstein, J., et al. 2021. "Community Policing Does Not Build Citizen Trust in Police or Reduce Crime in the Global South." Science 374 (6571). pdf
Hartman, A., Morse, B., Weber, S. 2021. "Violence, Displacement, and Support for Internally Displaced Persons: Evidence from Syria." Journal of Conflict Resolution 65 (10), 1791-1819. pdf
Blair, R., Morse, B., 2021. "Policing and the Legacies of State Predation: Evidence from a Survey and Field Experiment in Liberia." Journal of Conflict Resolution 65 (10), 1709-1737. pdf
Tsai, L., Morse, B., Blair, R. 2020. "Building Credibility and Cooperation in Low-Trust Settings: Persuasion and Source Accountability in Liberia during the 2014-2015 Ebola Crisis." Comparative Political Studies 53 (10-11), 1582-1618. pdf
Blair, R., S. Karim, B. Morse. 2019. "Establishing the Rule of Law in Weak and War-Torn States: Evidence from a Field Experiment with the Liberian National Police." American Political Science Review 113 (3), 641-657. pdf
Hartman, A., B. Morse. 2018. "Violence, Empathy, and Altruism: Evidence from the Ivoirian Refugee Crisis in Liberia." British Journal of Political Science 50 (2), 731-755. pdf
Morse, B., Grepin, K., Blair, R., Tsai, L. 2016. "Patterns of demand for health services during the Ebola outbreak: panel survey evidence from Monrovia, Liberia." BMJ Global Health 1 (1). pdf
Blair, R., Morse, B., Tsai, L. 2016. "Public Health and Public Trust: Survey Evidence from the Ebola Epidemic in Liberia." Social Science and Medicine 127: 89-97. pdf
BOOK CHAPTERS
Morse, B. "Community Policing, Vigilantism, and the Rule of Law: Evidence from Liberia" in Graeme Blair, Fotini Christia, and Jeremy Weinstein (eds.), Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing: Experiments on Building Trust, Cambridge University Press, 2024.
WORKING PAPERS
Morse, B. 2022. "How to Improve Security and Strengthen the Rule of Law in Fragile States? Evidence from a Field Experiment with the Liberian National Police." pdf
Morse, B. 2020. "Patrimonial Policing: Police Bias and Access to Justice in Liberia" pdf
Morse, B. 2018. "Confirmation Bias and the Catch-22 of State-building: Evidence from the 2014-2015 Ebola Crisis in Liberia." pdf
POLICY
Building Trust and Improving Police Effectiveness: Lessons from Liberia. Evidence in Governance and Politics (2020). pdf
Building Trust in a Reformed Security Sector: A Field experiment in Rural Liberia. International Growth Centre (2016). pdf
Patterns of Trust and Cooperation in the Fight Against Ebola. International Growth Centre (2015). pdf