Professor of Political Science

“Leaders' experience and the transition from populism to dictatorship,” Democratization (forthcoming) (with Alexander Baturo and Evren Balta),  https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2024.2391482   

“Commodity booms, conflict, and organized crime: Logics of Violence in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Plantation Economy” (with Rashesh Shrestha and Edward Aspinall), The Journal of Politics (forthcoming), https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.18287.66729 

“Is there a populist personality? Populist attitudes, personality, and voter preference in Australian public opinion,” (with Boris Bizumic), Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties (2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2023.2243587

“Does asylum seeker immigration increase support for the far right? Evidence from the United Kingdom, 2000-2015”, (with Charles Miller), Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies 48(7) (2022): 1629-46,  https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1776596   

“A new penal populism? Rodrigo Duterte, the war on drugs, and public opinion in the Philippines." (with Ronald Holmes), Journal of East Asian Studies 20(2) (2020): 187-205, https://doi.org/10.1017/jea.2020.8   

““The enemy of the people”: Populists and press freedom,” Political Research Quarterly 73(2) (2020): 261-275, https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912918824038  

“The structure of ethnic inequality and ethnic voting” (with Christian Houle and Chunho Park), The Journal of Politics 81(1) (2019): 187-200,  https://doi.org/10.1086/700200 

“The political and economic consequences of populist rule,” (with Christian Houle) Government and Opposition, 53(2) (2018): 256-287,  https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2016.25 

“The origins of patronage politics: State building, centrifugalism, and decolonization” British Journal of Political Science, 45(1), (2015): 141-171, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43821689  

“Colonial Rule, Decolonization, and Corruption in India,” Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 53(4), (2015): 401-27, https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2015.1089002  

“A mixed blessing: Karen resettlement to the United States” (with Kate Lockwood-Kenny), Journal of Refugee Studies, 24(2) (2011): 217-38,  https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fer009  

“Structural integrity and cohesion in insurgent organizations: Evidence from protracted conflicts in Ireland and Burma,” International Studies Review, 12 (2010): 533-555,  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2010.00959.x 

"The meaning of torture." Polity, 42(2) (2009): 131-155,  https://doi.org/10.1057/pol.2009.21  

“The Strategic Approach to Populism,” in Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia Pacific, in D. B. Subedi et al. (eds.), (London: Routledge, 2023)

“Inclusionary Populism and Democracy in India,” in Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia Pacific, D. B. Subedi et al. (eds.), (London: Routledge, 2023) 

“The Philippines: Penal Populism and Pandemic Response” in Populism and Democracy in the Times of the Pandemic, Nils Ringe and Lucio Rennó (eds.), (New York: Routledge, 2023)

“Populism in Southeast Asia” in The Palgrave Handbook of Populism, Michael T. Oswald (ed.), (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

“Why is there no political polarization in the Philippines?” in Political Polarization in South and Southeast Asia: Old Divisions, New Dangers, Thomas Carothers and Andrew O’Sullivan (eds.), (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2020) 

“Civil Wars,” (with Stathis N. Kalyvas), in Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of International Studies, edited by Robert Denemark and Renée Marlin-Bennett, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2017 [2010])