Research Publications
2025. Social Cues: How the Liberal Community Legitimizes Humanitarian War. Cambridge University Press.
2025. Respect the Process: The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Comparative Perspective. With S. Williamson. Journal of Politics 87 (1).
2024. Race, Religion, and Public Support for Humanitarian Intervention. Journal of Conflict Resolution 68 (1). With C. Lee. (Weber Best Paper Award, Religion & Politics Section, American Political Science Association. TESS Young Investigator Winner.)
2024. People Consistently View Elections and Civil Liberties as Key Components of Democracy. Science 386 (6719). With S. Williamson and E. Yeung. (Interviewed for Science Podcast. Covered in Science Magazine – Policy Forum; Cosmos; Phys.org; The Conversation.)
2023. Malicious Motives or Innocent Intentions? How Moral Reactions […] Shape Perceptions of Intent in Wartime Conduct. Foreign Policy Analysis 19 (4). With D. Traven and M. Holmes.
2022. Does Public Opinion affect the Preferences of Foreign Policy Leaders? Experimental Evidence from the UK Parliament. Journal of Politics 84 (3): 1874-1877. With S. Recchia.
2022. The Two Faces of Opposition to Chemical Weapons: Sincere Versus Insincere Norm-Holders. Journal of Conflict Resolution 66 (4-5): 677-703. With C. Blair and J. Schwartz. (Covered in Political Violence at a Glance.)
2021. Liberal Ideology and Foreign Opinion on China. International Studies Quarterly 65 (4): 960-72.
2021. Validating Threat: IO Approval and Public Support for Joining Military Coalitions. With S. Recchia. International Studies Quarterly 65 (4): 919-928. (Covered in The Conversation.)
2021. The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion. World Politics 73 (3): 441-81. With R. Kitagawa.
2021. Commanding Support: Values and Interests in the Rhetoric of Alliance Politics. International Interactions 47 (3): 477-503. With J. Ko and A. Liu.
2021. American Law Enforcement Responses to COVID-19. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 111: 19-31. With M. Kugler, M. Oliver, and N. Lee. (Referenced in The Crime Report.)
2020. Local Elected Officials’ Receptivity to Refugee Resettlement in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (50): 31722-28. With R. Shaffer, L. Pinson, and B. Simmons.
2020. Inferring Intentions from Consequences: How Moral Judgments Shape Citizen Perceptions of Wartime Conduct. Journal of Experimental Political Science 8 (2):203-7. With M. Holmes and D. Traven.
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.
2025. Respect the Process: The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Comparative Perspective. With S. Williamson. Journal of Politics 87 (1).
2024. Race, Religion, and Public Support for Humanitarian Intervention. Journal of Conflict Resolution 68 (1). With C. Lee. (Weber Best Paper Award, Religion & Politics Section, American Political Science Association. TESS Young Investigator Winner.)
2024. People Consistently View Elections and Civil Liberties as Key Components of Democracy. Science 386 (6719). With S. Williamson and E. Yeung. (Interviewed for Science Podcast. Covered in Science Magazine – Policy Forum; Cosmos; Phys.org; The Conversation.)
2023. Malicious Motives or Innocent Intentions? How Moral Reactions […] Shape Perceptions of Intent in Wartime Conduct. Foreign Policy Analysis 19 (4). With D. Traven and M. Holmes.
2022. Does Public Opinion affect the Preferences of Foreign Policy Leaders? Experimental Evidence from the UK Parliament. Journal of Politics 84 (3): 1874-1877. With S. Recchia.
2022. The Two Faces of Opposition to Chemical Weapons: Sincere Versus Insincere Norm-Holders. Journal of Conflict Resolution 66 (4-5): 677-703. With C. Blair and J. Schwartz. (Covered in Political Violence at a Glance.)
2021. Liberal Ideology and Foreign Opinion on China. International Studies Quarterly 65 (4): 960-72.
2021. Validating Threat: IO Approval and Public Support for Joining Military Coalitions. With S. Recchia. International Studies Quarterly 65 (4): 919-928. (Covered in The Conversation.)
2021. The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion. World Politics 73 (3): 441-81. With R. Kitagawa.
2021. Commanding Support: Values and Interests in the Rhetoric of Alliance Politics. International Interactions 47 (3): 477-503. With J. Ko and A. Liu.
2021. American Law Enforcement Responses to COVID-19. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 111: 19-31. With M. Kugler, M. Oliver, and N. Lee. (Referenced in The Crime Report.)
2020. Local Elected Officials’ Receptivity to Refugee Resettlement in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (50): 31722-28. With R. Shaffer, L. Pinson, and B. Simmons.
2020. Inferring Intentions from Consequences: How Moral Judgments Shape Citizen Perceptions of Wartime Conduct. Journal of Experimental Political Science 8 (2):203-7. With M. Holmes and D. Traven.
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.
Other writing
2024. How different people around the world understand democracy - and why it matters. The Conversation. With S. Williamson and E. Yeung. [Article]
2022. What Americans [Really] Believe about Chemical Weapons. Political Violence at a Glance. With J. Schwartz and C. Blair. [Article]
2021. UN and African Union key to public support for French military operations in Africa. The Conversation. With S. Recchia and J. Rogers de Waal. [Article]
2020. The Local Government Perspective on COVID-19 A CivicPulse public report series. With E. Katz and N. Lee | Covered in Governing magazine. [Report Series]
2019. What do leaders in local government think about the budget? A CivicPulse public report | With E. Katz. [Report]
2018. USAID Democracy and Governance Primer Series Primers 1, 3, and 7: Democracy and Conflict; Autocratic Resilience; Political Culture and Democracy | With L. Diamond. [Link]
2022. What Americans [Really] Believe about Chemical Weapons. Political Violence at a Glance. With J. Schwartz and C. Blair. [Article]
2021. UN and African Union key to public support for French military operations in Africa. The Conversation. With S. Recchia and J. Rogers de Waal. [Article]
2020. The Local Government Perspective on COVID-19 A CivicPulse public report series. With E. Katz and N. Lee | Covered in Governing magazine. [Report Series]
2019. What do leaders in local government think about the budget? A CivicPulse public report | With E. Katz. [Report]
2018. USAID Democracy and Governance Primer Series Primers 1, 3, and 7: Democracy and Conflict; Autocratic Resilience; Political Culture and Democracy | With L. Diamond. [Link]
Published Data
2013. Autocracies of the World, 1950-2012 | With B. Magaloni and E. 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]