Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
Forthcoming. Territorial Conflict over Endogenous Rents. Journal of Politics.
2018. Learning About Voter Rationality (with Scott Ashworth and Amanda
Friedenberg) American Journal of Political Science 62(1):37-54.
2017. Unified vs. Divided Political Authority (with Scott Ashworth). Journal of Politics 79(4):1372-1385.
2017. Accountability and Information in Elections (with Scott Ashworth and Amanda
Friedenberg). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 9(2): 95-138.
2015. Political Accountability with Sequential Policymaking (with Dimitri
Landa). Journal of Public Economics 132:95--108.
2015. Measuring Political Violence in Pakistan: Insights from the BFRS Dataset (with C. Christine Fair, Jenna Jordan, Rasul Bakhsh Rais, and Jacob N. Shapiro). Conflict Management and Peace Science 32(5):536--558.
2014. Is Voter Competence Good for Voters?: Information, Rationality, and Democratic Performance (with Scott Ashworth) American Political Science Review. 108(3):565-587
2013. Rebel Tactics. Journal of Political Economy 121(2):323-357.
2011. Ideologues or
Pragmatists? (with Amanda
Friedenberg). Journal of the European Economic
Association 9(5):931-951.
2011. Disentangling Accountability and Competence in
Elections: Evidence from U.S. Term Limits (with
James
Alt and
Shanna Rose) Journal of Politics 73(1):171-186.
2010. Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs American Political Science Review 104(3):446-466.
2009. Elections with Platform
and Valence Competition (with Scott Ashworth).
Games and Economic Behavior 67(1):191-216.
2008. Terrorist Factions. Quarterly Journal of
Political Science 3(4):399-418.
2008. Electoral
Selection, Strategic Challenger Entry, and the Incumbency Advantage
(with Scott Ashworth). Journal of Politics 70(4):1006-1025.
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2008. Public Protection or Private
Extortion? (with
Catherine Hafer). Economics and Politics
20(1):1-32.
2008. Informative Party Labels with Institutional and
Electoral Variation (with
Scott Ashworth).
Journal of Theoretical Politics 20(3):251-273.
2007. Regulatory Quality under Imperfect Oversight (with
Matthew Stephenson). American
Political Science Review 101(3):605-620.
2007. The Propaganda of the Deed: Terrorism,
Counterterrorism, and Mobilization
(with
Eric Dickson). American Journal of Political Science 51(2):364-381.
2007. Politics and the Suboptimal
Provision of Counterterror.
International Organization 61(1):9-36.
2006. Delivering the Goods: Legislative Particularism
in Different Electoral and Institutional Settings
(with Scott Ashworth).
Journal of Politics 68(1).
2006. Legal
Institutions and Informal Networks (with
Matthew Stephenson).
Journal of Theoretical Politics 18(1):41-68.
2006. Monotone Comparative Statics for Models of Politics
(with Scott Ashworth)
American Journal of
Political Science 50(1):214-231
2005.
The Quality of Terror. American Journal of
Political Science 49(3):515-530.
2005. The
Terrorist Endgame: A Model with Moral Hazard and Learning.
Journal of Conflict Resolution
49(2):237-258.
2005. Conciliation, Counterterrorism, and Patterns
of Terrorist Violence.
International Organization 59(1):145-176.
2002. Informative
Precedent and Intra-Judicial Communication (with
Matthew Stephenson).
American Political Science Review 96(4):755-766.
2002. The Binds
that Tie: Creating a Virtuous Cycle of Commitment through Communal
Expectations. CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter: 93-103.
2000. Strategic and
Non-Policy Voting: A Coalitional Analysis of Israeli Electoral Reform. Comparative
Politics 33(1):63-80.
Other Publications
2015. All Else Equal in Theory and Data (Big or Small) (with Scott Ashworth and Christopher Berry). PS: Political Science & Politics 48(1):89-94.
2008. The Political Economy of Terrorism: A Selective Overview of Recent Work. The Political Economist
10(1):1-12.
Ongoing Projects
Working Papers
Deterrence with Imperfect Attribution (with Sandeep Baliga and Alexander Wolitzky)
From Investiture to Worms: A Political Economy of European Development and the Rise of Secular Authority (with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita)
Regime Change and Equilibrium Multiplicity
Coming Soon
Information and Incumbency (with Scott Ashworth and Amanda
Friedenberg)
Treatment Effects and Information Effects (with Scott Tyson)
Model, Mechanism, Principle, Preferences (with Scott Ashworth and Christopher Berry)