Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa

• Coups and Social Trust: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Burkina Faso (with Robin Harding and Thomas Isbell). Under review.

Non-Sate Security

• Conceptualizing Private Military and Security Companies. Forthcoming at Conflict Management and Peace Science.
• The Centralization of Security and Citizen Safety: Evidence from Mozambique.
• Chiefs and Security Provision in Malawi (with Alexander Yeandle) [Pre-Analysis Plan].
• How the State Legitimizes Non-State Security Provision.

Meta-Science

• Reproducibility and Robustness of Economics and Political Science Research (5th author by contribution, with Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook, et al.). Nature.

• Tracing Dataset Usage in Political Science [Pre-Analysis Plan].

  I4R Replication Reports

  • A Robustness Reproduction of Martel et al. (2024): “On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration” (with Edmund Kelly and Benedetta Giocoli).
  • Reproduction and Robustness of Kao et al. (2024): “Female Representation and Legitimacy”. A Report from the 2024 UC Berkeley Replication Games (with Edmund Kelly, Angela Odermatt, and Albert Ward).
  • Why Do Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behaviour? A Comment on Frederiksen (2022) (with Matthew Hepplewhite and Scott Moser).
  • A Robustness Reproduction of Tappin, Berinsky and Rand (2023): “Partisans’ Receptivity to Persuasive Messaging is Undiminished by Countervailing Party Leader Cues” (with Edmund Kelly).

Other Publications

• Dataset: Building a Comprehensive Database on Conflict: Ethiopia, 1997–2017.
• BITSS Blog Post: Ensuring Reproducibility in Large Research Teams (2022).

Selected Works in Progress

• Rethinking Public Goods Provision: Functional Specialization and Security in Displacement Settings (with Pilar Sanchez-Bellosta).
• Security Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Conflict: Evidence from IDP Camps in Nigeria (with Pilar Sanchez-Bellosta).
• Policed to Distrust: Colonial Coercion and Contemporary Attitudes toward State Security.
• Refugee Camp Onset, Development, and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Explaining the Emergence of Security Regimes.