Selected Published/Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters
2025. "How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms" (with Elias Dinas and Vicente Valentin) British Journal of Political Science
2025. "The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination" (with Nourhan Elsayed, Hanno Hilbig, and Sascha Riaz) British Journal of Political Science
2025. "When Should the Majority Rule" (with Steven Levitsky) Journal of Democracy 36 (1): 5-20
2023. "Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany "(with Daniel Bischof and Hanno Hilbig), American Political Science Review
2022. "How Voters Respond to Presidential Assaults on Checks and Balances: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey" (w/ Alper Yagci and Muharrem Aytug Sasmaz) Comparative Political Studies
2021. "Capital Meets Democracy: The Impact of Franchise Extension on Sovereign Bond Markets." (w/Aditya Dasgupta) American Journal of Political Science
*2022, Midwestern Political Science Association, AJPS, Runner-Up Best Article of the Year
2020. "Authoritarian-Led Democratization" Annual Review of Political Science (with Rachel Riedl, Dan Slater, and Joseph Wong) 23: 1-18.
2019. "Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long Nineteenth Century" Journal of Peace Research 56 (3) (with Carl Henrik Knutsen, Jan Teorell, Tore Wig, Agnes Cornell, John Gerring, et al).
2019. "Center-Right Political Parties in Advanced Democracies" (with Noam Gidron), Annual Review of Political Science 22: 17-35
2018. "How do voters perceive changes to the rules of the game? Evidence from the 2014 Hungarian elections" (with John Ahlquist, Nahomi Ichino, and Jason Wittenberg) Journal of Comparative Economics
See Washington Post blog summary: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/04/08/hungarian…
2015 "How did Britain Democratize? A View from the Sovereign Debt Market” (with Aditya Dasgupta), Journal of Economic History 75 (1) March: 1-29.[lead article] [replication data]
2013. “The Enduring Indispensability of the Controlled Comparison” (with Dan Slater) Comparative Political Studies 46:10 (October 2013), 1301-1327.
2013. "Why Do we Still Read Barrington More? Some Reflections on the Survival of an Intellectual Icon" Comparative Democratization Newsletter, APSA 11 (1)
2011 "An Institutional Theory of Direct and Indirect Rule" (with John Gerring et al.) World Politics 63 (3): 377-433. [replication data]
2010. "The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies" (with Giovanni Capoccia) Comparative Political Studies 43 (8-9): 931-968
2009. "Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud" American Political Science Review 103 (1): 1-21. [replication data]
2008. "Does Landholding Inequality Block Democratization? The "Bread and Democracy" Thesis and the Case of Prussia” World Politics 60 (4): 610-641. [replication data]
2006. "How Did Europe Democratize?" World Politics 58 (2): 311-338
2004. "Rethinking the Origins of Federalism" World Politics 57 (1): 70