Publications

Redistributive Political Transitions: Minority Rule and Liberation Wars in Colonial Africa

Accepted, Journal of Politics

Qualitative Investigation of Theoretical Models: The Value of Process Tracing  

(with Peter Lorentzen and M. Taylor Fravel)

Journal of Theoretical Politics,  2017, 29(3): 467-491. LIST OF FORMAL THEORY ARTICLES

Rethinking the Conflict Resource Curse: How Oil Wealth Prevents Center-Seeking Civil Wars

International Organization, 2016, 70(4): 727-761. APPENDIX

Set-Theoretic Comparative Methods (STCM): Less Distinctive Than Claimed

Comparative Political Studies, 2016, 49(6): 703-741.

Still Searching for the Value-Added: Persistent Concerns about Set-Theoretic Comparative Methods

Comparative Political Studies, 2016, 49(6): 793-800.

Under Review

Ethnic Violence in Africa: Destructive Legacies of Pre-Colonial States

R&R, International Organization

Economic Grievances and Civil War: An Application to the Resource Curse

R&R, International Studies Quarterly

What Were the Effects of Decolonization?  (with Alexander Lee)

R&R, International Studies Quarterly

A Theory of Strategic Civil War Aims: Explaining the Mixed Oil-Conflict Curse

Colonial Institutions and Democracy: Resisted Transitions from European Settler Oligarchies

Did British Colonialism Promote Democracy? Divergent Inheritances and Diminishing Legacies 

​(with Alexander Lee)

Working Papers

Preventive Repression and Authoritarian Regime Dynamics

The Great Fiscal Divergence (with Alexander Lee)