Selected Publications

An agent-based framework to study forced migration: A case study of Ukraine
PNAS Nexus (2024)
How to Build a Wonder of the World
Public Books (2024)
Review Essay: Donald Trump, Charismatic Leadership and the "Deep State"
Political Science Quarterly (2024)
A Complementary Approach to Critical Frame Analysis and "What is the Policy Represented to Be?
Critical Policy Studies (2024)
Broke Psychoanalysis: In Memory of Harlem's Lafargue Clinic
Parapraxis Magazine (2024)
Who Is "On Welfare"? Validating the Use of Conjoint Experiments to Measure Stereotype Content
Political Behavior (2024)
Hand-Tying through Military Signals in Crisis Bargaining
International Studies Quarterly (2024)
Triffin Reloaded: The Matrix of Contradictions Around Global Quasi-State Money
Max Planck Institute for Study of Society Discussion Paper (2024)
Perceptions of Party Incongruence and Nascent Political Ambition
Political Behavior (2024)
Claim-Making in Comparative Perspective Everyday Citizenship Practice and Its Consequences
Cambridge University Press (2024)
Rethinking Measurement Equivalence in Comparative Political Research
Political Research Quarterly (2024)
Global Secular Stagnation and the Rise of Intellectual Property Monopoly
Review of International Political Economy (2024)
On Research Ethics and Ethical Responsibilities: Facing Up to Sexual Harassment and Assault During Field Research
PS: Political Science & Politics (2024)
U.S. Sanctuary Policies and Mexicans’ Migration Preferences: A Conjoint-Experimental Study
International Migration Review (2023)
Interpretivism versus Positivism in an Age of Causal Inference
Oxford University Press (2023)
Franklin Roosevelt, the "Third New Deal," and the Transformation of Partisanship
Social Science Quarterly (2023)
Regulatory Body Shop
Duke Law Review (2023)
The March on Washington Movement, the Fair Employment Practices Committee, and the Long Quest for Racial Justice
Studies in American Political Development (2023)
The Stability and Growth Pact's "Unusual Events" Clause and the Funding of the Refugee Crisis in the European Union
International Journal of Public Administration (2023)
The Two Faces of Democracy: Decenteriing Agonism and Deliberation
Oxford University Press (2023)
“What about the Rapists?” The Political Psychology of Women’s Policing Attitudes
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy (2023)
David Hume and the Politics of Slavery
Political Studies (2023)
Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom
Oxford University Press (2023)
The Invincible Gender Gap in Political Ambition
PS: Political Science & Politics (2023)
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans
Annual Review of Political Science (2023)
Passive Corruption: How Institutions Corrupt People
Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Politica (2023)
The Sorcerer's Apprentices of Interwar France
History of European Ideas (2023)
The Ties that Bind: Immigration and the Global Economy
Cambridge University Press (2023)
Land/Labor Ratios, Citizenship, and Migrants
World Politics (2023)
Mild Aggressive Behavior and Images of Real-Life Violence
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (2023)
The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order
Yale University Press (2023)
Hostile Sexism, Benevolent Sexism, and American Elections
Politics & Gender (2022)
Can Biden Prove That Democracy Works?
The National Interest (2022)
Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue
New Political Science (2022)
Tempering the Taste for Vengeance: Information About Prisoners and Policy Choices in Chile
Comparative Political Studies (2022)
State Building in Crisis Governance: Donald Trump and COVID-19
Political Science Quarterly (2022)
Domestic Actors and the Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power: Evidence from Pakistan
Journal of Contemporary Asia (2022)
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances
Security Studies (2022)
CGU's Institutional Designs between 2001 and 2016
Revista E-Legis (2022)
Get Out of the Way: Joe Biden, the U.S. Congress, and Executive-Centered Partisanship During the President’s First Year in Office
The Forum (2022)
The Origins and Consequences of Racialized Schemas about U.S. Parties
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (2022)
Le potentiel de croissance du Parti québécois : L'envers du vote
Canadian Journal of Political Science (2022)
Systemic Inequality in the Discipline
APSA Website (2022)
Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information
Comparative Political Studies (2022)
Is the Pipeline of Women Running for Office Broken?
Ms Magazine (2022)
Get Out of the Way: Joe Biden, the U.S. Congress, and Executive-Centered Partisanship During the President’s First Year in Office
The Forum (2022)
Taking Voice Seriously
Perspectives on Politics (2022)
Policing in Patriarchy: An experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India
Science (2022)
CGU's Institutional Designs between 2001 and 2016
E-Legis (2022)
Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on China's New Silk Road
Cambridge University Press (2022)
Liberal States, Authoritarian Families & Kids in a Liberal Democracy
The Atlantic (2022)
Ideology and Foreign Regime Promotion
Routledge (2022)
Death and taxes in Machiavelli's Florentine state
Manchester University Press (2022)
Qualitative Causal Inference and Critical Junctures: The Problem of Backdoor Paths
Rowman & Littlefield (2022)
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status
International Studies Quarterly (2022)
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma
American Political Science Review (2022)
Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information
Comparative Political Studies (2022)
Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on China's New Silk Road
Cambridge University Press (2022)
Estimating and Using Individual Marginal Component Effects from Conjoint Experiments
Political Analysis (2022)
A Heavy Hand or a Helping Hand? Information Provision and Citizen Preferences for Anti-Crime Policy in Panama
Journal of Public Policy (2022)
The Liberal Paradigm and U.S. Policy in the Indo-Pacific
Routledge (2022)
The Illusion of Accountability: Transparency and Representation in American Legislatures
Cambridge University Press (2022)
What Happened to the Vital Center?
Oxford University Press (2022)
The Myth of Ideological Polarization
Wall Street Journal (2022)
What Socrates Says, and Does Not Say
The Classical Quarterly (2021)
Two Emerging International Orders? China and the United States
International Affairs (2021)
When Groups Fall Apart: Identifying Transnational Polarization during the Arab Uprisings
Political Analysis (2021)
Theorizing "Racial/Colonial Primitive Accumulation": Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and Racial Capitalism
Race & Class (2021)
The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States
Rutgers University Press (2021)
Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change
American Political Science Review (2021)
Great Expectations, Great Grievances: The Politics of Citizens’ Complaints in India
Comparative Politics (2021)
Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China
British Journal of Political Science (2021)
"To Manipulate American English": Toni Morrison's Word-Work as a Practice of Freedom
American Quarterly (2021)
Economic distress amidst political success: India’s economic policy under Modi, 2014-2019
India Review (2021)
Hume's ‘Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth’ and Scottish political thought of the 1790s
History of European Ideas (2021)
Party Competition, Personal Votes, and Strategic Disloyalty in the US States
Political Research Quarterly (2021)
Rethinking the Resource Curse
Cambridge University Press (2021)
The Effects of Dehumanizing Language on Public Opinion Toward Federal and "For-Profit" Immigrant Detention
Politics, Groups, and Identities (2021)
Universal Suffrage as Decolonization
American Political Science Review (2021)
An Open Collection of Political Science Research with OLS Models and Cross-Sectional Data
The Political Methodologist (2021)
When Groups Fall Apart: Identifying Transnational Polarization during the Arab Uprisings
Political Analysis (2021)
Listening to Black Lives Matter: Racial Capitalism and the Critique of Neoliberalism
Contemporary Political Theory (2021)
Why Physical Barriers Backfire : How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications
Comparative Political Studies (2021)
Small Money Donating as Democratic Politics
Perspectives on Politics (2021)
Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany
World Politics (2021)
Two Emerging International Orders? China and the United States
International Affairs (2021)
Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization: The Case of Global Banking
International Studies Quarterly (2021)
State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines
EPW engage (2021)
Do Elections Keep the Compassionate Out of the Candidate Pool
Public Opinion Quarterly (2021)
Traditional Gender Attitudes, Nativism, and Support for the Radical Right
Politics & Gender (2021)
News Hole: The Demise of Local Journalism and Political Engagement
Cambridge University Press (2021)
Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness
Rowman & Littlefield (2021)
Why Physical Barriers Backfire : How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications
Comparative Political Studies (2021)
Emerging Technologies and International Stability
Routledge (2021)
Taiwan’s continued success requires economic diversification of products and markets
Brookings Institution (2021)
Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany
World Politics (2021)
The Contingent Effects of Sexism in Primary Elections
Political Research Quarterly (2021)
Interpreting Politics: Situated Knowledge, India, and the Rudolph Legacy
Oxford University Press (2021)
State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines
EPW engage (2021)
Freud Sous Les Tropiques
Les Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg (2021)
It’s Not Just China: Population, Power Generation, Political Polarization, and Parochialism Are Also Long-term Threats to Taiwan’s Success and Survival
China Leadership Monitor (2021)
A unique path of political development: The Confucian dialectic of domestic and international interaction in the history of the Communist Party of China
Journal of Contemporary China (2021)
Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought
Oxford University Press (2021)
Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China
British Journal of Political Science (2021)
Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)
Cambridge University Press (2021)
Comparative Public Budgeting: Global Perspectives on Taxing and Spending
Cambridge University Press (2021)
Alliance Participation, Treaty Depth, and Military Spending.
International Studies Quarterly (2021)
Constraining Dictatorship
Cambridge University Press (2020)
Surviving Crises, Catastrophes, and Peace-Keeping Forces in Haiti
New West Indian Guide (2020)
Sino-Russian Cooperation against Liberal Hegemony
International Politics (2020)
The Geography of Citizenship Practice: How the Poor Engage the State in Rural and Urban India (with A. M. Auerbach)
Perspectives on Politics 18(4): 1118-1134 (2020)
Fair Play, Reciprocity, and Natural Duties of Justice
Ratio Juris (2020)
A Discussion of Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum’s A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
Perspectives on Politics (2020)
How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization
American Political Science Review (2020)
State of the Field: The History of Political Thought
History (2020)
The Shape of and Solutions to the MTurk Quality Crisis
Political Science Research and Methods (2020)
The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France
Oxford University Press (2020)
Exporting Murder: US Deportations and the Spread of Violence
International Studies Quarterly (2020)
The Death and Life of Terrorist Networks: How Alliances Help Militants Survive
Foreign Affairs (2020)
"Toni Morrison and the Fugitives' Democracy" in African American Political Thought: A Collected History
University of Chicago Press (2020)
Pork Eating is Not a Reasonable Way of Life: Yeshiva Education vs. Liberal Educational Theory
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2020)
"Our Undivided Support: Donald Trump, the Republican Party and Executive-Centered Partisanship" in Dynamics of American Politics: Partisan Polarization, Political Competition and Government Performance
Kansas University Press (2020)
Buying Power: Electoral Strategy Before the Secret Vote
American Political Science Review (2020)
Centrism, Political Leadership, and the Future of Indian Politics
Oxford University Press (2020)
The Left and Henri Bergson
French Politics (2020)
Oaths and Political Obligation in Ancient Greece
History of Political Thought (2020)
Political Theory and American Literature: A Guide through the Archive
Political Theory (2020)
Survivorship Bias in Comparative Politics: Endogenous Sovereignty and the Resource Curse
Perspectives on Politics (2020)
"Preface" in Haiti: International Dilemmas and Failures
Alameda Casa Editorial (2020)
How women leaders can enhance rulemaking in the Biden administration
Brookings Institution (2020)
Challenging the Wisdom on Preferential Proportional Representation
Journal of Theoretical Politics (2020)
Does Transparency Inhibit Political Compromise
American Journal of Political Science (2020)
What Was Universal Suffrage?
Theory & Event 23(1): 29–65 (2020)
Covering the Private Parts: The Post-Crisis (Re-)nationalization of Housing Finance
West European Politics (2020)
Vote Secrecy with Diverse Voters
Comparative Political Studies (2020)
Situated Knowledge, the Construction of Meaning, and Political Action
Oxford University Press (2020)
Saudi Arabia plans for its economic future: Vision 2030, the National Transformation Plan and Saudi fiscal reform
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2020)
On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy and the Rights of Place
Oxford University Press (2020)
Winning the Game of Thrones: Leadership Succession in Modern Autocracies
Journal of Conflict Resolution (2020)
"Preface" Haiti: International Dilemmas and Failures
Alameda Casa Editorial (2020)
The Public's Influence on the U.S. District Courts in Discrimination Cases
Justice System (2020)
The Policy Response to Declining Fertility Rates in Japan: Relying on Logic and Hope Over Evidence
Social Science Japan Journal (2020)
Gendered (and Racialized) Partisan Polarization
In Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy (2020)
What Effect do Local Political Elites Have on Infant and Child Death? Elected and Chiefly Authority in South Africa
Social Science & Medicine (2020)
How women leaders can enhance rulemaking in the Biden administration
Brookings Institution (2020)
David Hume's Balancing Act: The Political Discourses and the Sinews of War
American Political Science Review (2020)
Ruling Parties in Authoritarian Regimes: Rethinking Institutional Strength.
British Journal of Political Science: 1–15 (2019)
Lying About Corruption in Surveys: Evidence from a Joint Response Model
International Journal of Public Opinion Research (2019)
A Trump Effect? Women and the 2018 Midterm Elections
The Forum (2019)
Formal Modeling in Social Science
University of Michigan Press (2019)
Ballot Reform as Suffrage Restriction: Evidence from Brazil's Second Republic
American Journal of Political Science (2019)
Emerging Technologies and Strategic Stability in Peacetime, Crisis, and War
Journal of Strategic Studies (2019)
American Hegemony: Intellectual Property Rights, Money, and Infrastructural Power
Review of International Political Economy (2019)
No Social Revolution Without Sexual Revolution
Political Theory (2019)
Accessing the State: Executive Constraints and Credible Commitment in Dictatorship
Journal of Theoretical Politics (2019)
Populists at the Polls: Economic, Political, and Social Factors in the 1896 Presidential Election
Research in Economic History (2019)
Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements and the Transformation of American Politics
University of Chicago Press (2019)
Controlling Immigration?
European Journal of Political Research (2019)
Building a Conservative State: Partisan Polarization and the Redeployment of Administrative Power
Cambridge University Press (2019)
Online coders, open codebooks: New opportunities for content analysis of political communication
Political Science Research and Methods (2019)
Traditional authority and bargaining for legitimacy in dual legitimacy systems
Journal of Modern African Studies (2019)
Police Violence and the Underreporting of Crime
Economics and Politics (2018)
Surviving Crises, Catastrophes, and Peace-Keeping Forces in Haiti
New West Indian Guide (2018)
Kennedy’s Keynesian Budgetary Politics and the 1962 Public Works Acceleration Act
Journal of Policy History (2018)
International Politics: How History Modifies Theory
Oxford University Press (2018)
Nice Girls? Sex, Collegiality, and Bipartisan Cooperation in the U.S. Congress
Journal of Politics (2018)
Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India
Cambridge University Press (2018)
Kennedy’s Keynesian Budgetary Politics and the 1962 Public Works Acceleration Act
Journal of Policy History (2018)
A Bargaining Theory of Coercion
In Kelly M. Greenhill and Peter Krause, eds., The Power to Hurt: Coercion in Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press) (2018)
Reputations and Signaling in Coercive Bargaining
Journal of Conflict Resolution (2018)
"Living 'in the Red': Time, Debt, and Justice," in To Shape a New World: The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Harvard University Press (2018)
The Decline of Local News and Its Effects: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Journal of Politics (2018)
A Bargaining Theory of Coercion
Oxford University Press (2018)
The Pursuit of Social Welfare: Citizen Claim-Making in Rural India
World Politics (2018)
The European Union budget and the European refugee and migration crises
OECD Journal on Budgeting (2018)
"Does Democracy End in Terror?" Transformations of Antitotalitarianism in Postwar France
Modern Intellectual History (2017)
Military Technology and Duration of Civil Conflict
International Studies Quarterly (2017)
Oxford Handbook of Populism
Oxford University Press (2017)
Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy
Cambridge University Press (2017)
The Transformation of American Liberalism
Oxford University Press (2017)
The People as a Natural Disaster: Redemptive Violence in Jacobin Political Thought
American Political Science Review (2017)
Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Globalized Production in the Twenty-First Century
Annual Review of Political Science (2016)
Women on the Run: Gender, Media, and Political Campaigns in a Polarized Era
Cambridge University Press (2016)
French Roast: International Conflict and Consumer Boycotts-Evidence from Supermarket Scanner Data
Review of Economics and Statistics (2016)
Between Samaritans and States: The Political Ethics of Humanitarian INGOs
Oxford University Press (2015)
Emergency Claims and Democratic Action
Social Philosophy and Policy (2015)
Killing Haitian Democracy
Jacobin (2015)
Killing Haitian Democracy
Jacobin (2015)
Democratization and Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization, 1970-2000.
International Studies Quarterly (2014)
Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery
Lynne Rienner Publishers (2014)
Signaling Alliance Commitments: Hand-Tying and Sunk Costs in Extended Nuclear Deterrence
American Journal of Political Science (2014)
Trading Spaces
Cambridge University Press (2014)
Haiti Trapped in the Outer Periphery
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc (2013)
Crisis Bargaining and Nuclear Blackmail
International Organization (2013)
Residential Mobility and Local Civic Engagement in Japan and the United States: Divergent Paths to School
Comparative Political Studies (2012)
The Illusion of Democratic Credibility
International Organization (2012)
The Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State
Penn State University Press (2011)
The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change
University of Toronto Press (2011)
Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois
Oxford University Press (2011)
Labor Markets and the Demand for Foreign Direct Investment
International Organization (2010)
Masculine Republicans and Feminine Democrats: Gender and Americans’ Explicit and Implicit Images of the Political Parties
Political Behavior (2010)
Goliath's Curse: Coercive Threats and Asymmetric Power
International Organization (2010)
Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan's System of Social Protection
Cornell University Press (2008)
Dangerous Frames: How Ideas About Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion
University of Chicago Press (2008)
The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy
Cornell University Press (2000)

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