published research

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"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? Examining populist attitudes, identity, 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, democracy, 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/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 and its implications for justice and democracy." Polity, 42(2) (2009): 131-155, https://doi.org/10.1057/pol.2009.21

"The Strategic Approach to Populism, focusing on issues such as corruption and identity," appears in the Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia Pacific, edited by D. B. Subedi et al. (London: Routledge, 2023). 

"Inclusionary Populism and Democracy in India: Addressing Inequality and Corruption," is featured in the Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia Pacific, edited by D. B. Subedi et al. (London: Routledge, 2023). 

"The Philippines: Penal Populism and Pandemic Response, exploring the dynamics of democracy during crises," can be found in Populism and Democracy in the Times of the Pandemic, edited by Nils Ringe and Lucio Rennó (New York: Routledge, 2023). 

"Populism in Southeast Asia and its impact on identity and inequality" is discussed in The Palgrave Handbook of Populism, edited by Michael T. Oswald (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). 

"Why is there no political polarization in the Philippines despite issues of inequality?" is examined in Political Polarization in South and Southeast Asia: Old Divisions, New Dangers, edited by Thomas Carothers and Andrew O’Sullivan (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2020). 

"Civil Wars," co-authored with Stathis N. Kalyvas, is included in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, edited by Robert Denemark and Renée Marlin-Bennett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017 [2010]).