Peer Reviewed Articles

Forthcoming. Rebel Tactics. Journal of Political Economy.

2011. Ideologues or Pragmatists? (with Amanda Friedenberg). Journal of the European Economic Association 9(5):931-951.

• Online Appendix

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.

• Replication Data

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.

• R code for simulations in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4-5, and 6

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. (An early version of this paper was entitled, "An Adverse Selection Model of Terrorism".)

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

2008. The Political Economy of Terrorism: A Selective Overview of Recent Work. The Political Economist 10(1):1-12.

Conference and Working Papers

Accountability Traps (with Scott Ashworth and Amanda Friedenberg)

Regime Change with One-Sided Limit Dominance

Does Clarifying Responsibility Always Improve Policy? (with Dimitri Landa)

Moral Hazard with Sequential Policy Making (with Dimitri Landa)

Disasters and Incumbent Electoral Fortunes: No Implications for Democratic Competence (with Scott Ashworth)