Publications
Ethnic Violence in Africa: Destructive Legacies of Pre-Colonial States
Accepted, International Organization
Redistributive Political Transitions: Minority Rule and Liberation Wars in Colonial Africa
Accepted, Journal of Politics
Economic Grievances and Civil War: An Application to the Resource Curse
Accepted, International Studies Quarterly
What Were the Consequences of Decolonization? (with Alexander Lee)
Accepted, International Studies Quarterly
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.
A Theory of Strategic Civil War Aims: Explaining the Mixed Oil-Conflict Curse
Colonial Institutions and Democracy: Resisted Transitions from European Settler Oligarchies
R&R, World Politics
Did British Colonialism Promote Democracy? Divergent Inheritances and Diminishing Legacies
(with Alexander Lee). R&R, Journal of Comparative Economics
The Great Revenue Divergence (with Alexander Lee)
Working Papers
The Repression-Revolution Dilemma
The Dictator's Power-Sharing Dilemma: Balancing Elite and External Threats
Crafting the Dictator's Military: Loyalty, Efficiency, and the Guardianship Dilemma