Working Papers
Please email me for the manuscript if you are interested in any of the below papers.
  • "Political Dissent, Foreign Intervention, and State Repression"
           [under review]

  • "Why Violence? The Organizational Evolution and Strategic Behavior of Social Movements"
           [under review]

  • "Tenure through Tyranny? Repression, Dissent, and Leader Removal in Africa and Latin America, 1990-2004"
    (with Christian Davenport and Reed M. Wood)
    ​     [under review]

  • "Pacifying or Provoking : the Role of Access to Financial Institutions in Violent Conflicts"
    (with Cameron G. Thies)

  • "Measuring and Estimating Ethnic Heterogeneity"
    (with David S. Siroky)

  • "How Economic Sanctions Work in Authoritarian Regimes?"
    (with Cameron G. Thies)

  • "Methodological Insights and Challenges for Using Climate Change Indicators in Predicting Conflict Research"
    (with Steven T. Landis and Cameron G. Thies)​​




In Progress Projects

  • "Pro-Government tweeps and State Repression "

  • "When the Levee Breaks: An Ensemble Forecasting Model of Nonviolent and Violent Conflict"
    (with Jonathan Pinckney)

  • "Micro-Motives and the Ethnic Security Dilemma: Evidence from the Balcoh in Pakistan"
    (    with Christine Fair, David S. Siroky, and Carolyn Warner)

  • "From Opposition to Alliance: Who Rallies Round the Flag?"
    (    with Vahid Ghafouri and Nihat Kasap)

  • "Political Science Research Methods" book contract with Oxford University Press
    (    with Cameron G. Thies)