Research Publications/WOrking Papers
*under review/Resubmitting for review
2020. Intentions from Consequences: How Moral Judgments Shape Citizen Perceptions of Wartime Conduct. With Marcus Holmes and David Traven. Accepted for publication at Journal of Experimental Political Science. [Paper]
2019. A Clash of Norms? How Reciprocity and International Humanitarian Law affect American Opinion on the Treatment of POWs. Journal of Conflict Resolution 63 (5): 1140-64. [Paper]
*Social Cues by International Organizations: NATO, the Security Council, and Public Support for Humanitarian Intervention. Finklestein Paper Award Winner (International Organization Section, International Studies Association). [Paper]
Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention. With Carrie Lee. Winner of the Young Investigator's Award (Time Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences) and the Weber Paper Prize (Religion and Politics Section, American Political Science Association). [Paper]
*The Two Faces of Opposition to Chemical Weapons: Sincere Versus Insincere Norm-Holders. With Christopher Blair and Joshua Schwartz. [Paper]
*Commanding Support: Values and Interests in the Rhetoric of Alliance Politics. With Jiyoung Ko and Adam Liu. R&R at International Interactions. [Paper]
*Liberal Ideology and Foreign Opinion on China. [Paper]
Winning Foreign Approval through International Organizations. [Paper]
*The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion. With Risa Kitagawa. [Paper]
*What Explains Local Officials' Receptivity to New Refugees? With Lauren Pinson, Robert Shaffer, and Beth Simmons. [Paper]
Does Public Opinion affect the Preferences of Foreign Policy Leaders? Experimental Evidence from the UK Parliament. With Stefano Recchia and Joel Rogers de Waal. [Paper]
2019. A Clash of Norms? How Reciprocity and International Humanitarian Law affect American Opinion on the Treatment of POWs. Journal of Conflict Resolution 63 (5): 1140-64. [Paper]
*Social Cues by International Organizations: NATO, the Security Council, and Public Support for Humanitarian Intervention. Finklestein Paper Award Winner (International Organization Section, International Studies Association). [Paper]
Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention. With Carrie Lee. Winner of the Young Investigator's Award (Time Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences) and the Weber Paper Prize (Religion and Politics Section, American Political Science Association). [Paper]
*The Two Faces of Opposition to Chemical Weapons: Sincere Versus Insincere Norm-Holders. With Christopher Blair and Joshua Schwartz. [Paper]
*Commanding Support: Values and Interests in the Rhetoric of Alliance Politics. With Jiyoung Ko and Adam Liu. R&R at International Interactions. [Paper]
*Liberal Ideology and Foreign Opinion on China. [Paper]
Winning Foreign Approval through International Organizations. [Paper]
*The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion. With Risa Kitagawa. [Paper]
*What Explains Local Officials' Receptivity to New Refugees? With Lauren Pinson, Robert Shaffer, and Beth Simmons. [Paper]
Does Public Opinion affect the Preferences of Foreign Policy Leaders? Experimental Evidence from the UK Parliament. With Stefano Recchia and Joel Rogers de Waal. [Paper]
Policy writing
2020. The Local Government Perspective on COVID-19. A CivicPulse public report series. With Emily Katz and Nathan Lee. Featured in Governing magazine. [Report]
2019. What do leaders in local government think about the budget? A CivicPulse public report. With Emily Katz. [Report]
2018. USAID Democracy and Governance Primer Series. Primers 1, 3, and 7: Democracy and Conflict; Autocratic Resilience; Political Culture and Democracy. With Larry Diamond. [Link]
2019. What do leaders in local government think about the budget? A CivicPulse public report. With Emily Katz. [Report]
2018. USAID Democracy and Governance Primer Series. Primers 1, 3, and 7: Democracy and Conflict; Autocratic Resilience; Political Culture and Democracy. With Larry Diamond. [Link]
Published Data
2013. Autocracies of the World, 1950-2012. (with Beatriz Magaloni and Eric Min)
A regime dataset that classifies all country-years from 1950-2012 by different forms of autocratic rule. Introduces a novel form of measuring personalist rule across all autocracies and makes several corrections to extant regime classification data. Data is housed by Stanford's Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). [Codebook] [Data]
A regime dataset that classifies all country-years from 1950-2012 by different forms of autocratic rule. Introduces a novel form of measuring personalist rule across all autocracies and makes several corrections to extant regime classification data. Data is housed by Stanford's Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). [Codebook] [Data]
Shwedegon Pagoda, Myanmar (Burma).