Under Review
R&R at International Organization (with Alexander Lee)
A Theory of External Wars and European Parliaments
R&R at International Organization (with Brenton Kenkel)
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma
R&R at American Political Science Review (with Anne Meng)
Book Manuscript
Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship (with Alexander Lee)
Working Papers
Despotism in Africa: Centralized or Decentralized? (with Jutta Bolt, Leigh Gardner, and James Robinson)
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies
(with Anne Meng and Robert Powell)
In preparation for the Annual Review of Political Science
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa
(with Xiaoyan Qiu and Joan Ricart-Huguet)
Countermajoritarian Institutions and Self-Subverting Democracy (with Gretchen Helmke)
Autocratization (with Anne Meng)
Historical Statehood and Civil War Aims Across World Regions