RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
Book
2021. Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Articles
Forthcoming. Judge, Landlord, Broker, Watchman: Assessing Variation in Chiefly Duties in the Ghana-Togo Borderlands (with Natalie Letsa) Journal of Modern African Studies
2023. Enumerator Experiences in Survey Data Collection in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Justine Davis) Comparative Political Studies 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140231178735.
2023. Demanding Recognition: Citizen Perspectives on Clientelism in Africa (with Kathleen Klaus & Jeffrey Paller) African Affairs 122(487), pp. 185-203.
2022. Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa? Electoral Studies 79.
2022. Improving Open-Source Information on African Politics (with Kristin Michelitch). PS: Politics and Society 55(2), pp. 450-455.
2020. The Mechanisms of Direct and Indirect Rule: Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa (with Natalie Letsa). Quarterly Journal of Political Science 15(4), pp. 539-577.
2018. Precolonial Legacies and Institutional Congruence in Public Goods Delivery: Evidence from Decentralized West Africa. World Politics 70(2), pp. 239-274.
2018. The Politics of Local Government Performance: Elite Cohesion and Cross-Village Constraints in Decentralized Senegal
World Development, 103, pp. 149-61.
World Development, 103, pp. 149-61.
2018. Popular Support for Democracy in Autocratic Regimes: A Micro-Level Analysis of Preferences (with Natalie Letsa). Comparative Politics, 50(2), pp. 231-73.
Working Papers
A Precolonial Paradox: Concept Development and Measurement of Historical Political Centralization
Sensitive to Whom? Understanding "Sensitive" Questions in Violent Contexts (with Justine Davis)
Colonial Legacies, Collective Efficacy, and Rural Development: Evidence from the Togo-Ghana Border (with Natalie Letsa)
The Political Effects of Caste in Senegal (with Leonardo Arriola and Dominika Koter) Pre-analysis plan
Contesting Autocracy: Explaining the Origins of Opposition Strongholds in Africa (with Leonardo Arriola, David Dow & Natalie Letsa)
Sensitive to Whom? Understanding "Sensitive" Questions in Violent Contexts (with Justine Davis)
Colonial Legacies, Collective Efficacy, and Rural Development: Evidence from the Togo-Ghana Border (with Natalie Letsa)
The Political Effects of Caste in Senegal (with Leonardo Arriola and Dominika Koter) Pre-analysis plan
Contesting Autocracy: Explaining the Origins of Opposition Strongholds in Africa (with Leonardo Arriola, David Dow & Natalie Letsa)
On-Going Research
Reevaluating Legacies of Direct and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Ghana-Togo Borderlands (with Natalie Letsa)
Endogenous Decentralization? The Politics of Subnational Boundary Creation
Endogenous Decentralization? The Politics of Subnational Boundary Creation
