Nicholas Stowell is a doctoral candidate in political science at Claremont Graduate University with a focus on world politics and computational analytics. His research interests include political demography, political instability, inequality, polarization, and conflict. He has published works on threats to democratic electoral processes as well as cost-benefit analysis. He specializes in econometric and computational methods. Nicholas holds a master’s degree in political science from Portland State University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from The University of Wisconsin.