Peer-Reviewed Articles
Reframing the Guardianship Dilemma: How the Military’s Dual Disloyalty Options Imperil Dictators
Conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review
Strategic Power Sharing: Commitment, Capability, and Authoritarian Survival
Forthcoming at Journal of Politics JOURNAL LINK • NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY • APPENDIX
Strategic Civil War Aims and the Resource Curse
Forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Political Science JOURNAL LINK • APPENDIX
Democracy by Deterrence: Norms, Constitutions, and Electoral Tilting
Forthcoming at American Journal of Political Science (with Gretchen Helmke and Mary Kroeger)
JOURNAL LINK • AJPS BLOG • MEDIA • APPENDIX • REPLICATION DATA
The Dictator's Power-Sharing Dilemma: Countering Dual Outsider Threats
American Journal of Political Science, 2021, 65(2): 510-527.
JOURNAL LINK • APPENDIX • NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Ethnic Violence in Africa: Destructive Legacies of Pre-Colonial States
International Organization, 2019, 73(3): 645-683.
JOURNAL LINK • APPENDIX • REPLICATION DATA • NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Democratic Contradictions in European Settler Colonies
World Politics, 2019, 71(3): 542-585. JOURNAL LINK • MAIN APPENDIX • CODING APPENDIX • REPLICATION DATA
Redistributive Political Transitions: Minority Rule and Liberation Wars in Colonial Africa
Journal of Politics, 2019, 81(2): 505-523. JOURNAL LINK • APPENDIX • REPLICATION DATA
Economic Grievances and Civil War: An Application to the Resource Curse
International Studies Quarterly, 2019, 63(2): 244-258. JOURNAL LINK • APPENDIX
British Colonialism and Democracy: Divergent Inheritances and Diminishing Legacies
(with Alexander Lee) Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019, 47(3): 487–503.
JOURNAL LINK • APPENDIX • REPLICATION DATA
What Were the Consequences of Decolonization? (with Alexander Lee)
International Studies Quarterly, 2019, 63(2): 406-416. JOURNAL LINK • APPENDIX • REPLICATION DATA
Qualitative Investigation of Theoretical Models: The Value of Process Tracing
(with Peter Lorentzen and M. Taylor Fravel)
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2017, 29(3): 467-491. JOURNAL LINK • LIST OF FORMAL THEORY ARTICLES
Rethinking the Conflict Resource Curse: How Oil Wealth Prevents Center-Seeking Civil Wars
International Organization, 2016, 70(4): 727-761. JOURNAL LINK • APPENDIX • REPLICATION DATA
Set-Theoretic Comparative Methods (STCM): Less Distinctive Than Claimed
Comparative Political Studies, 2016, 49(6): 703-741. JOURNAL LINK
Invited Submissions
Uses and Abuses of Formal Models in Political Science (with Scott A. Tyson)
Chapter 11 in SAGE Handbook of Political Science: A Global Perspective BOOK LINK
Still Searching for the Value-Added: Persistent Concerns about Set-Theoretic Comparative Methods
Comparative Political Studies, 2016, 49(6): 793-800. JOURNAL LINK