Publications

Decentralized information transmission in the shadow of conflict (open access)
Journal of Theoretical Politics 36.1 (2024): 64-82

Wisdom of Crowds? Information Aggregation in Representative Democracy with Carlo Prato
Supplemental Appendix
Games and Economic Behaviour 135 (2022): 86-95

Executive Absolutism: The Dynamics of Authority Acquisition in a System of Separated Powers with Will Howell and Kenneth Shepsle
Quarterly Journal of Political Science 18.2 (2023): 243-275
Disclosure statement

Lobbying: Inside and Out. How Special Interest Groups Influence Policy Choices
Supplemental Appendix
Quarterly Journal of Political Science,16.4 (2021): 467-503.
Young Economist Award at the 31st Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association
Press: Blog post

After Citizens United: How Outside Spending Shapes American Democracy with Nour Abdul-Razzak and Carlo Prato
Journal of Electoral Studies, 67 (2020): 102190.
Supporting Information: Supplemental Appendix
Press: Monkey Cage post, Vox.com

Mass Purges: Top-down Accountability in Autocracy with Pablo Montagnes
American Political Science Review 113.4 (2019): 1045-1059.
Working paper version
Supporting Information: Supplemental Appendix, Mathematica code for figures

Are Biased Media Bad for Democracy?
American Journal of Political Science 63.3 (2019): 548-562.
Working paper version
Supporting Information: Supplemental Appendix, Mathematica code for figures
Press: Blog post

The Politician’s Province with Will Howell
Quarterly Journal of Political Science 13.2 (2018): 119-146.
Working paper version
Supplemental Appendix

Rational Ignorance, Populism, and Reform with Carlo Prato
European Journal of Political Economy 55 (2018): 119-135.
Press: Blog post

Electoral Imbalances and Their Consequences with Carlo Prato
The Journal of Politics, 80.4 (2018): 1168-1182.
Supporting Information: Supplemental Appendix, Mathematica code for figures

Electoral Ambiguity and Political Representation with Navin Kartik and Richard Van Weelden
American Journal of Political Science 61.4 (2017): 958-970.
Supporting Information: Supplemental Appendix, Mathematica code for figures
Press: Blog post

Citizens United: A Theoretical Evaluation with Carlo Prato
PSRM, The Journal of the European Political Science Association 5.3 (2017): 567-574.
Supporting Information: Supplemental Appendix

Rule Versus Discretion: Regulatory Uncertainty, Firm Investment, and Bureaucratic Organization with Pablo Montagnes
The Journal of Politics 79.2 (2017): 457-472.
Supporting Information: Supplemental Appendix, Mathematica code for figures (1 firm), Mathematica code for figures (multiple firms), Mathematica code for figures (subsidy)

Campaign Cost and Electoral Accountability with Carlo Prato
PSRM, The Journal of the European Political Science Association 7.1 (2019): 1-21.
Working paper version
Supporting Information: Supplemental Appendix
Replication material: Do File, Data Set (for Stata 13 or earlier version)
Data construction material: Do File (Publicly available data sets: Data 1, Data 2, Data 3)
Press: Blog post

The Voters’ Curses: Why We Need Goldilocks Voters with Carlo Prato.
American Journal of Political Science 60.3 (2016): 726-737.
Supporting Information: Main proofs, Additional Proofs and Welfare, Extensions, Mathematica code for figures

Political Conflicts, The Role of Opposition Parties, and the Limits on Taxation.
Journal of Theoretical Politics 27.4 (2015): 570-587.

Other publications

Denunciation in autocratic regimes: how and when do they work with Tinghua Yu
in Fault Lines After COVID-19, Aliber, R.Z., Gudmundsson, M., Zoega, G. eds., Palgrave Macmillan

Leadership: A Definition with Will Howell
in Leadership in American Politics, Jeffery A. Jenkins and Craig Volden eds., Kansas University Press