Peer-Reviewed Articles
Ethnic Violence in Africa: Destructive Legacies of Pre-Colonial States
Accepted, International Organization
Redistributive Political Transitions: Minority Rule and Liberation Wars in Colonial Africa
Journal of Politics, 2019, 81(2): 505-523.
Democratic Contradictions in European Settler Colonies
Accepted, World Politics
Economic Grievances and Civil War: An Application to the Resource Curse
Forthcoming, International Studies Quarterly
What Were the Consequences of Decolonization? (with Alexander Lee)
Forthcoming, International Studies Quarterly
British Colonialism and Democracy: Divergent Inheritances and Diminishing Legacies
(with Alexander Lee) Forthcoming, Journal of Comparative Economics
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.
Invited Submissions
Uses and Abuses of Formal Models in Political Science (with Scott A. Tyson)
Prepared for the SAGE Handbook of Political Science: A Global Perspective
Still Searching for the Value-Added: Persistent Concerns about Set-Theoretic Comparative Methods
Comparative Political Studies, 2016, 49(6): 793-800.
The Great Revenue Divergence (with Alexander Lee)
A Theory of Strategic Civil War Aims: Explaining the Mixed Oil-Conflict Curse
The Dictator's Power-Sharing Dilemma: Countering Elite and External Threats
Working Papers
Crafting the Dictator's Military: Loyalty, Efficiency, and the Guardianship Dilemma