Recent Publications

Two Emerging International Orders? China and the United States
International Affairs (2021)
Estimating and Using Individual Marginal Component Effects from Conjoint Experiments
Political Analysis (2021)
When Groups Fall Apart: Identifying Transnational Polarization during the Arab Uprisings
Political Analysis (2021)
Interpreting Politics: Situated Knowledge, India, and the Rudolph Legacy
Oxford University Press (2021)
Hume's ‘Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth’ and Scottish political thought of the 1790s
History of European Ideas (2021)
Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany
World Politics (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)
Who Are “the Immigrants”? Beliefs about Immigrant Populations and Anti-Immigration Attitudes in the United States and Britain
Social Science Quarterly (2021)
When Groups Fall Apart: Identifying Transnational Polarization during the Arab Uprisings
Political Analysis (2021)
Great Expectations, Great Grievances: The Politics of Citizens’ Complaints in India
Comparative Politics (2021)
Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization: The Case of Global Banking
International Studies Quarterly (2021)
Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought
Oxford University Press (2021)
Rethinking the Resource Curse
Cambridge University Press (2021)
State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines
EPW engage (2021)
Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany
World Politics (2021)
News Hole: The Demise of Local Journalism and Political Engagement
Cambridge University Press (2021)
Comparative Public Budgeting: Global Perspectives on Taxing and Spending
Cambridge University Press (2021)
An Open Collection of Political Science Research with OLS Models and Cross-Sectional Data
The Political Methodologist (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)
Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China
British Journal of Political Science (2021)
Universal Suffrage as Decolonization
American Political Science Review (2021)
State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines
EPW engage (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)
Taiwan’s continued success requires economic diversification of products and markets
Brookings Institution (2021)
Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China
British Journal of Political Science (2021)
What Socrates Says, and Does Not Say
The Classical Quarterly (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)
Gendered (and Racialized) Partisan Polarization
In Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy (2020)
Covering the Private Parts: The Post-Crisis (Re-)nationalization of Housing Finance
West European 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)
Buying Power: Electoral Strategy Before the Secret Vote
American Political Science Review (2020)
David Hume's Balancing Act: The Political Discourses and the Sinews of War
American Political Science Review (2020)
Party Competition, Personal Votes, and Strategic Disloyalty in the U.S. States
Political Research Quarterly (2020)
Surviving Crises, Catastrophes, and Peace-Keeping Forces in Haiti
New West Indian Guide (2020)
Does Transparency Inhibit Political Compromise
American Journal of Political Science (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)
Sino-Russian Cooperation against Liberal Hegemony
International Politics (2020)
Constraining Dictatorship
Cambridge University Press (2020)
State of the Field: The History of Political Thought
History (2020)
Exporting Murder: US Deportations and the Spread of Violence
International Studies Quarterly (2020)
How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization
American Political Science Review (2020)
The Shape of and Solutions to the MTurk Quality Crisis
Political Science Research and Methods (2020)
How women leaders can enhance rulemaking in the Biden administration
Brookings Institution (2020)
What Effect do Local Political Elites Have on Infant and Child Death? Elected and Chiefly Authority in South Africa
Social Science & Medicine (2020)
Oaths and Political Obligation in Ancient Greece
History of Political Thought (2020)
Pork Eating is Not a Reasonable Way of Life: Yeshiva Education vs. Liberal Educational Theory
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2020)
The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France
Oxford University Press (2020)
The Consequences of Personality Biases in Online Panels for Measuring Public Opinion
Public Opinion Quarterly (2020)
The Left and Henri Bergson
French Politics (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)
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)
"Toni Morrison and the Fugitives' Democracy" in African American Political Thought: A Collected History
University of Chicago Press (2020)
Vote Secrecy with Diverse Voters
Comparative Political Studies (2020)
The Death and Life of Terrorist Networks: How Alliances Help Militants Survive
Foreign Affairs (2020)
Winning the Game of Thrones: Leadership Succession in Modern Autocracies
Journal of Conflict Resolution (2020)
The Policy Response to Declining Fertility Rates in Japan: Relying on Logic and Hope Over Evidence
Social Science Japan Journal (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)
"Preface" Haiti: International Dilemmas and Failures
Alameda Casa Editorial (2020)
Intraparty Polarization in American Politics
The Journal of Politics (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)
What Was Universal Suffrage?
Theory & Event 23(1): 29–65 (2020)
Fair Play, Reciprocity, and Natural Duties of Justice
Ratio Juris (2020)
The Public's Influence on the U.S. District Courts in Discrimination Cases
Justice System (2020)
"Preface" in Haiti: International Dilemmas and Failures
Alameda Casa Editorial (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)
Traditional authority and bargaining for legitimacy in dual legitimacy systems
Journal of Modern African Studies (2019)
Building a Conservative State: Partisan Polarization and the Redeployment of Administrative Power
Cambridge University Press (2019)
Militant internationalism and dogmatism among foreign policy elites: evidence from Russia, 1995–2016
Post-Soviet Affairs (2019)
Online coders, open codebooks: New opportunities for content analysis of political communication
Political Science Research and Methods (2019)
Accessing the State: Executive Constraints and Credible Commitment in Dictatorship
Journal of Theoretical Politics (2019)
A Trump Effect? Women and the 2018 Midterm Elections
The Forum (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)
Populists at the Polls: Economic, Political, and Social Factors in the 1896 Presidential Election
Research in Economic History (2019)
How Dispositional Empathy Influences Political Ambition
The Journal of Politics (2019)
American Hegemony: Intellectual Property Rights, Money, and Infrastructural Power
Review of International Political Economy (2019)
Formal Modeling in Social Science
University of Michigan Press (2019)
Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements and the Transformation of American Politics
University of Chicago Press (2019)
No Social Revolution Without Sexual Revolution
Political Theory (2019)
Controlling Immigration?
European Journal of Political Research (2019)
Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India
Cambridge University Press (2018)
The Decline of Local News and Its Effects: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Journal of Politics (2018)
Roll Call Rebels: Strategic Dissent in the United States and United Kingdom
Cambridge University Press (2018)
Kennedy’s Keynesian Budgetary Politics and the 1962 Public Works Acceleration Act
Journal of Policy History (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)
A Bargaining Theory of Coercion
Oxford University Press (2018)
Indecision in American Legislatures
University of Michigan Press (2018)
Kennedy’s Keynesian Budgetary Politics and the 1962 Public Works Acceleration Act
Journal of Policy History (2018)
The Pursuit of Social Welfare: Citizen Claim-Making in Rural India
World Politics (2018)
Ethnocentrism Reduces Foreign Direct Investment
The Journal of Politics (2018)
Nice Girls? Sex, Collegiality, and Bipartisan Cooperation in the U.S. Congress
Journal of Politics (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)
International Politics: How History Modifies Theory
Oxford University Press (2018)
Surviving Crises, Catastrophes, and Peace-Keeping Forces in Haiti
New West Indian Guide (2018)
The European Union budget and the European refugee and migration crises
OECD Journal on Budgeting (2018)
Ethnocentrism Reduces Foreign Direct Investment
The Journal of Politics (2018)
Police Violence and the Underreporting of Crime
Economics and Politics (2018)
Reputations and Signaling in Coercive Bargaining
Journal of Conflict Resolution (2018)
The People as a Natural Disaster: Redemptive Violence in Jacobin Political Thought
American Political Science Review (2017)
The Transformation of American Liberalism
Oxford University Press (2017)
Risky Business: Institutions vs. Social Networks in FDI
Economics and Politics (2017)
"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)
Risky Business: Institutions vs. Social Networks in FDI
Economics and Politics (2017)
Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy
Cambridge University Press (2017)
French Roast: International Conflict and Consumer Boycotts-Evidence from Supermarket Scanner Data
Review of Economics and Statistics (2016)
Women on the Run: Gender, Media, and Political Campaigns in a Polarized Era
Cambridge University Press (2016)
Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Globalized Production in the Twenty-First Century
Annual Review of Political Science (2016)
Killing Haitian Democracy
Jacobin (2015)
Babies across Borders: The Political Economy of International Child Adoption
International Studies Quarterly (2015)
Between Samaritans and States: The Political Ethics of Humanitarian INGOs
Oxford University Press (2015)
Killing Haitian Democracy
Jacobin (2015)
Babies across Borders: The Political Economy of International Child Adoption
International Studies Quarterly (2015)
Emergency Claims and Democratic Action
Social Philosophy and Policy (2015)
Doctors with borders: occupational licensing as an implicit barrier to high skill migration
Public Choice (2014)
Signaling Alliance Commitments: Hand-Tying and Sunk Costs in Extended Nuclear Deterrence
American Journal of Political Science (2014)
Democratization and Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization, 1970-2000.
International Studies Quarterly (2014)
Trading Spaces
Cambridge University Press (2014)
Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery
Lynne Rienner Publishers (2014)
Doctors with borders: occupational licensing as an implicit barrier to high skill migration
Public Choice (2014)
Crisis Bargaining and Nuclear Blackmail
International Organization (2013)
Haiti Trapped in the Outer Periphery
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc (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)
Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois
Oxford University Press (2011)
The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change
University of Toronto Press (2011)
Masculine Republicans and Feminine Democrats: Gender and Americans’ Explicit and Implicit Images of the Political Parties
Political Behavior (2010)
Labor Markets and the Demand for Foreign Direct Investment
International Organization (2010)
Goliath's Curse: Coercive Threats and Asymmetric Power
International Organization (2010)
The Financial Crisis of 2007: Our Waterloo or Take a Chance on IPE?
International Interactions (2009)
The Financial Crisis of 2007: Our Waterloo or Take a Chance on IPE?
International Interactions (2009)
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)