Peer-Reviewed Articles
Ethnic Violence in Africa: Destructive Legacies of Pre-Colonial States
Forthcoming, International Organization
Democratic Contradictions in European Settler Colonies
World Politics, 2019, 71(3): 542-585.
British Colonialism and Democracy: Divergent Inheritances and Diminishing Legacies
(with Alexander Lee) Forthcoming, Journal of Comparative Economics
Redistributive Political Transitions: Minority Rule and Liberation Wars in Colonial Africa
Journal of Politics, 2019, 81(2): 505-523.
Economic Grievances and Civil War: An Application to the Resource Curse
International Studies Quarterly, 2019, 63(2): 244-258.
What Were the Consequences of Decolonization? (with Alexander Lee)
International Studies Quarterly, 2019, 63(2): 406-416.
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
The Loyalty-Efficiency Tradeoff in Authoritarian Repression
Work in Progress
Elections under Colonialism (book manuscript with Alexander Lee)
The Repression-Revolution Dilemma
Threatening, Building, and Constraining the State (with Brenton Kenkel)
Undemocratic Consequences of Democratic Constitutions
(with Gretchen Helmke and Mary Kroeger)
Ideological Polarization and Externalized Civil War: Evidence from Post-World War II Africa
(with Philip Roessler)
Historical Origins of Modern Ethnic Violence: Pre-Colonial States and Separatist Civil Wars