Research Publications/WOrking Papers
2020. Local Elected Officials’ Receptivity to Refugee Resettlement in the United States Accepted for publication at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | With Lauren Pinson, Robert Shaffer, and Beth Simmons [Paper temporarily under pre-publication embargo. Please email me for a draft.]
2020. Intentions from Consequences: How Moral Judgments Shape Citizen Perceptions of Wartime Conduct Journal of Experimental Political Science, online first view | With Marcus Holmes and David Traven [Paper]
2019. A Clash of Norms? How Reciprocity and International Humanitarian Law affect American Opinion on the Treatment of POWs Journal of Conflict Resolution [Paper]
Commanding Support: Values and Interests in the Rhetoric of Alliance Politics R&R at International Interactions | With Jiyoung Ko and Adam Liu [Paper]
The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion R&R at World Politics | With Risa Kitagawa [Paper]
Liberal Ideology and Foreign Opinion on China R&R at International Studies Quarterly [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 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) | With Carrie Lee [Paper]
The Two Faces of Opposition to Chemical Weapons: Sincere Versus Insincere Norm-Holders With Christopher Blair and Joshua Schwartz [Paper]
Winning Foreign Approval through International Organizations [Paper]
Does Public Opinion affect the Preferences of Foreign Policy Leaders? Experimental Evidence from the UK Parliament With Stefano Recchia [Paper]
2020. Intentions from Consequences: How Moral Judgments Shape Citizen Perceptions of Wartime Conduct Journal of Experimental Political Science, online first view | With Marcus Holmes and David Traven [Paper]
2019. A Clash of Norms? How Reciprocity and International Humanitarian Law affect American Opinion on the Treatment of POWs Journal of Conflict Resolution [Paper]
Commanding Support: Values and Interests in the Rhetoric of Alliance Politics R&R at International Interactions | With Jiyoung Ko and Adam Liu [Paper]
The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion R&R at World Politics | With Risa Kitagawa [Paper]
Liberal Ideology and Foreign Opinion on China R&R at International Studies Quarterly [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 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) | With Carrie Lee [Paper]
The Two Faces of Opposition to Chemical Weapons: Sincere Versus Insincere Norm-Holders With Christopher Blair and Joshua Schwartz [Paper]
Winning Foreign Approval through International Organizations [Paper]
Does Public Opinion affect the Preferences of Foreign Policy Leaders? Experimental Evidence from the UK Parliament With Stefano Recchia [Paper]
Policy writing
2020. American Law Enforcement Responses to COVID-19 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Online, forthcoming | With Matthew Kugler, Mariana Oliver, and Nathan Lee [Paper]
2020. The Local Government Perspective on COVID-19 A CivicPulse public report series. With Emily Katz and Nathan Lee | Featured in Governing magazine. [Report Series Landing Page]
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]
2020. The Local Government Perspective on COVID-19 A CivicPulse public report series. With Emily Katz and Nathan Lee | Featured in Governing magazine. [Report Series Landing Page]
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).