Peer-Reviewed Articles
The Dictator's Power-Sharing Dilemma: Countering Dual Outsider Threats
Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science
Ethnic Violence in Africa: Destructive Legacies of Pre-Colonial States
International Organization, 2019, 73(3): 645-683.
Democratic Contradictions in European Settler Colonies
World Politics, 2019, 71(3): 542-585.
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.
British Colonialism and Democracy: Divergent Inheritances and Diminishing Legacies
(with Alexander Lee) Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019, 47(3): 487–503.
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.