Do Chinese Citizens Conceal Their Opposition to the CCP? Evidence from Two Survey Experiments (with Erin Baggott Carter and Stephen Schick). 2024. The China Quarterly. (Link, Online Appendix)

• Featured by The Economist, The National Interest, China Digital Times, JoongAng Iibo (Korea), and USC Dornsife

• Currently the 4th most read article in CQ history; top 5% of all journal articles tracked by Altmetric

Why the New Cold War Split Africa. 2023. Foreign Affairs. September 20. (Link)

• Featured by the National Endowment for Democracy and on Scholars' Circle

Broadcasting Out-Group Repression to the In-Group: Evidence from China (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2023. Journal of Conflict Resolution. (Link, Online Appendix)

American Democracy Is Still in Danger: How to Protect It From Enemies Foreign and Domestic (with Erin Baggott Carter and Larry Diamond). 2023. Foreign Affairs January 6. (Link)

• Featured on The Hill on NewsNation (segment 1, segment 2)

Can Western Donors Constrain Repressive Governments? Evidence from Debt Relief Negotiations in Africa. 2023. Journal of Conflict Resolution 67(6): 1183-1217. (Link, Online Appendix)

• Featured on Political Violence at a Glance

• Previously circulated as AidData Working Paper 29

When Autocrats Threaten Citizens With Violence: Evidence from China (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2022. British Journal of Political Science 52(2):671-696. (Link, Online Appendix)

Questioning More: RT, America, and the Post-West World Order (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2021. Security Studies 30(1): 49-78. (Link, Online Appendix)

Propaganda and Protest in Autocracies (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2021. Journal of Conflict Resolution 65(5): 919-949. (Link, Online Appendix)

Regional Governance in Divided Societies: Evidence from the Republic of Congo and Kenya (with Mai Hassan). 2021. Journal of Politics 83(1): 40-57. (Link, Online Appendix)

Focal Moments and Protests in Autocracies: How Pro-Democracy Anniversaries Shape Dissent in China (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2020. Journal of Conflict Resolution 64(10): 1796-1827. (Link, Online Appendix)

• Op-ed in The New York Times

Propaganda and Electoral Constraints in Autocracies (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2018. APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter 28(2): 11-18. (Link)

The Rise of Kleptocracy: Autocrats versus Activists in Africa. 2018. Journal of Democracy 30(1): 29(1): 54-68. (Link)

• Featured by National Public Radio's RadioLab, the National Endowment for Democracy's Power 3.0 Project, and CSIS's Into Africa podcast

The Sparks that Become Prairie Fires: Religion and Preference Falsification in China (with Erin Baggott Carter). 

• Revise & Resubmit at Comparative Political Studies

Exporting the Tools of Dictatorship: The Politics of China's Technology Transfers (with Erin Baggott Carter).

• Revise & Resubmit at Perspectives on Politics

• Circulating as AidData Working Paper 122

The Kremlin and K Street: Evidence of Vote-Buying in the U.S. Congress (with Erin Baggott Carter and Eva Sky Isakovic).

Foreign Influence as International Politics: The Evolution of Russian Influence Campaigns in Washington (with Erin Baggott Carter and Eva Sky Isakovic).