Research Interests:

Political economy of development
Elections and election fraud
Corruption
Development policy
Authoritarianism
Survey research

Book Manuscript:

More than Winning: Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections (under review)

Selected Articles (available upon request):

Can International Election Monitoring Harm Governance? (with Daniela Donno, forthcoming in Journal of Politics)

Cheating Big: The Logic of Electoral Manipulation

Does Electoral Manipulation Discourage Voter Turnout?

The Manipulation of Social Spending by Local Government: A Study of the 3x1 Program for Migrants in Mexico (with various co-authors)

Electoral Manipulation as Bureaucratic Control (with Scott Gehlbach)

The Political Origins of Subnational Democracy and Authoritarianism (with Juan Fernando Ibarra)

Comparing the Accuracy of RDD Telephone Surveys and Internet Surveys Conducted with Probability and Non-Probability Samples (with various co-authors, Public Opinion Quarterly)