Research Interests

Formal Models, Computational Models, Structural Equations, Dynamic Modeling, Authoritarian Politics, Elections and Violence, Regime Transitions, Politics of failed states.

Working Papers

  1. A model of election-motivated violence between party militias.
  2. A project with Dan Slater on the effects of regionalist rebellions on the political militarization of authoritarian regimes
  3. A paper with Christian Ponce De Leon investigating formal approaches to what political leaders maximize.

University of Chicago EITM Summer Institute VI (UCLA) College of William & Mary