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
Economic Grievances and Civil War: An Application to the Resource Curse
Conditionally accepted, International Studies Quarterly
What Were the Consequences of Decolonization? (with Alexander Lee)
Conditionally accepted, International Studies Quarterly
A Theory of Strategic Civil War Aims: Explaining the Mixed Oil-Conflict Curse
Ethnic Violence in Africa: Destructive Legacies of Pre-Colonial States
R&R, International Organization
Colonial Institutions and Democracy: Resisted Transitions from European Settler Oligarchies
Did British Colonialism Promote Democracy? Divergent Inheritances and Diminishing Legacies
(with Alexander Lee)
The Great Revenue Divergence (with Alexander Lee)
Working Papers
Preventive Repression and Authoritarian Regime Dynamics