Recent Publications

A Heavy Hand or a Helping Hand? Information Provision and Citizen Preferences for Anti-Crime Policy in Panama
Journal of Public Policy (2022)
What Happened to the Vital Center?
Oxford University Press (2022)
Can Biden Prove That Democracy Works?
The National Interest (2022)
Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue
New Political Science (2022)
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances
Security Studies (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)
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)
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)
CGU's Institutional Designs between 2001 and 2016
E-Legis (2022)
Liberal States, Authoritarian Families & Kids in a Liberal Democracy
The Atlantic (2022)
Qualitative Causal Inference and Critical Junctures: The Problem of Backdoor Paths
Rowman & Littlefield (2022)
Freud Sous Les Tropiques
Les Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg (2021)
Comparative Public Budgeting: Global Perspectives on Taxing and Spending
Cambridge University Press (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)
"To Manipulate American English": Toni Morrison's Word-Work as a Practice of Freedom
American Quarterly (2021)
What Socrates Says, and Does Not Say
The Classical Quarterly (2021)
Hume's ‘Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth’ and Scottish political thought of the 1790s
History of European Ideas (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)
Great Expectations, Great Grievances: The Politics of Citizens’ Complaints in India
Comparative Politics (2021)
The Effects of Dehumanizing Language on Public Opinion Toward Federal and "For-Profit" Immigrant Detention
Politics, Groups, and Identities (2021)
Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China
British Journal of Political Science (2021)
An Open Collection of Political Science Research with OLS Models and Cross-Sectional Data
The Political Methodologist (2021)
Who Are “the Immigrants”? Beliefs about Immigrant Populations and Anti-Immigration Attitudes in the United States and Britain
Social Science Quarterly (2021)
Rethinking the Resource Curse
Cambridge University Press (2021)
Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change
American Political Science Review (2021)
Two Emerging International Orders? China and the United States
International Affairs (2021)
Universal Suffrage as Decolonization
American Political Science Review (2021)
State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines
EPW engage (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)
Perceptions of Stereotypically Immigrant Groups as Darker-skinned and Politics of Immigration in the United States and Britain.
Politics, Groups, and Identities (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)
Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization: The Case of Global Banking
International Studies Quarterly (2021)
Small Money Donating as Democratic Politics
Perspectives on Politics (2021)
The Contingent Effects of Sexism in Primary Elections
Political Research Quarterly (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)
Interpreting Politics: Situated Knowledge, India, and the Rudolph Legacy
Oxford University Press (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)
Traditional Gender Attitudes, Nativism, and Support for the Radical Right
Politics & Gender (2021)
Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany
World Politics (2021)
Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)
Cambridge University Press (2021)
Emerging Technologies and International Stability
Routledge (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)
Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought
Oxford University Press (2021)
Alliance Participation, Treaty Depth, and Military Spending.
International Studies Quarterly (2021)
Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China
British Journal of Political Science (2021)
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)
Constraining Dictatorship
Cambridge University Press (2020)
David Hume's Balancing Act: The Political Discourses and the Sinews of War
American Political Science Review (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 Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France
Oxford University Press (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)
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)
"Toni Morrison and the Fugitives' Democracy" in African American Political Thought: A Collected History
University of Chicago Press (2020)
The Shape of and Solutions to the MTurk Quality Crisis
Political Science Research and Methods (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)
The Death and Life of Terrorist Networks: How Alliances Help Militants Survive
Foreign Affairs (2020)
Buying Power: Electoral Strategy Before the Secret Vote
American Political Science Review (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 Consequences of Personality Biases in Online Panels for Measuring Public Opinion
Public Opinion Quarterly (2020)
The Left and Henri Bergson
French Politics (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)
Challenging the Wisdom on Preferential Proportional Representation
Journal of Theoretical Politics (2020)
Covering the Private Parts: The Post-Crisis (Re-)nationalization of Housing Finance
West European Politics (2020)
How women leaders can enhance rulemaking in the Biden administration
Brookings Institution (2020)
Party Competition, Personal Votes, and Strategic Disloyalty in the U.S. States
Political Research Quarterly (2020)
Does Transparency Inhibit Political Compromise
American Journal of Political Science (2020)
Vote Secrecy with Diverse Voters
Comparative Political Studies (2020)
"Preface" Haiti: International Dilemmas and Failures
Alameda Casa Editorial (2020)
The Policy Response to Declining Fertility Rates in Japan: Relying on Logic and Hope Over Evidence
Social Science Japan Journal (2020)
What Was Universal Suffrage?
Theory & Event 23(1): 29–65 (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)
Intraparty Polarization in American Politics
The Journal of Politics (2020)
"Preface" in Haiti: International Dilemmas and Failures
Alameda Casa Editorial (2020)
Winning the Game of Thrones: Leadership Succession in Modern Autocracies
Journal of Conflict Resolution (2020)
The Public's Influence on the U.S. District Courts in Discrimination Cases
Justice System (2020)
What Effect do Local Political Elites Have on Infant and Child Death? Elected and Chiefly Authority in South Africa
Social Science & Medicine (2020)
Gendered (and Racialized) Partisan Polarization
In Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy (2020)
How women leaders can enhance rulemaking in the Biden administration
Brookings Institution (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)
Online coders, open codebooks: New opportunities for content analysis of political communication
Political Science Research and Methods (2019)
Formal Modeling in Social Science
University of Michigan Press (2019)
Emerging Technologies and Strategic Stability in Peacetime, Crisis, and War
Journal of Strategic Studies (2019)
Ballot Reform as Suffrage Restriction: Evidence from Brazil's Second Republic
American Journal of Political Science (2019)
American Hegemony: Intellectual Property Rights, Money, and Infrastructural Power
Review of International Political Economy (2019)
A Trump Effect? Women and the 2018 Midterm Elections
The Forum (2019)
No Social Revolution Without Sexual Revolution
Political Theory (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)
Accessing the State: Executive Constraints and Credible Commitment in Dictatorship
Journal of Theoretical Politics (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)
Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India
Cambridge University Press (2018)
The European Union budget and the European refugee and migration crises
OECD Journal on Budgeting (2018)
Police Violence and the Underreporting of Crime
Economics and Politics (2018)
Indecision in American Legislatures
University of Michigan Press (2018)
Ethnocentrism Reduces Foreign Direct Investment
The Journal of Politics (2018)
Kennedy’s Keynesian Budgetary Politics and the 1962 Public Works Acceleration Act
Journal of Policy History (2018)
Ethnocentrism Reduces Foreign Direct Investment
The Journal of Politics (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)
Reputations and Signaling in Coercive Bargaining
Journal of Conflict Resolution (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)
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)
Nice Girls? Sex, Collegiality, and Bipartisan Cooperation in the U.S. Congress
Journal of Politics (2018)
A Bargaining Theory of Coercion
Oxford University Press (2018)
Roll Call Rebels: Strategic Dissent in the United States and United Kingdom
Cambridge University Press (2018)
The Decline of Local News and Its Effects: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Journal of Politics (2018)
The Pursuit of Social Welfare: Citizen Claim-Making in Rural India
World Politics (2018)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Babies across Borders: The Political Economy of International Child Adoption
International Studies Quarterly (2015)
Killing Haitian Democracy
Jacobin (2015)
Emergency Claims and Democratic Action
Social Philosophy and Policy (2015)
Killing Haitian Democracy
Jacobin (2015)
Babies across Borders: The Political Economy of International Child Adoption
International Studies Quarterly (2015)
Democratization and Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization, 1970-2000.
International Studies Quarterly (2014)
Trading Spaces
Cambridge University Press (2014)
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)
Doctors with borders: occupational licensing as an implicit barrier to high skill migration
Public Choice (2014)
Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery
Lynne Rienner Publishers (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 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)
Goliath's Curse: Coercive Threats and Asymmetric Power
International Organization (2010)
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)
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)