Exporting the Tools of Dictatorship: The Politics of China's Technology Transfers (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2025. Perspectives on Politics. (Link, Online Appendix)

• Previously circulated as AidData Working Paper 122

Do Chinese Citizens Conceal Their Opposition to the CCP? Evidence from Two Survey Experiments (with Erin Baggott Carter and Stephen Schick). 2024. The China Quarterly. (Link, Online Appendix)

• Featured by The Economist, The National Interest, East Asia Forum, China Digital Times, JoongAng Iibo (Korea), and USC Dornsife

• Currently the 4th most read article in CQ history; top 5% of all journal articles tracked by Altmetric

Why the New Cold War Split Africa. 2023. Foreign Affairs. September 20. (Link)

• Featured by the National Endowment for Democracy, Democracy Digest, and on Scholars' Circle

Broadcasting Out-Group Repression to the In-Group: Evidence from China (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2024. Journal of Conflict Resolution 68(6): 1080-1108. (Link, Online Appendix)

American Democracy Is Still in Danger: How to Protect It From Enemies Foreign and Domestic (with Erin Baggott Carter and Larry Diamond). 2023. Foreign Affairs. January 6. (Link)

• Featured on The Hill on NewsNation (segment 1, segment 2)

Can Western Donors Constrain Repressive Governments? Evidence from Debt Relief Negotiations in Africa. 2023. Journal of Conflict Resolution 67(6): 1183-1217. (Link, Online Appendix)

• Featured on Political Violence at a Glance

• Previously circulated as AidData Working Paper 29

When Autocrats Threaten Citizens With Violence: Evidence from China (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2022. British Journal of Political Science 52(2):671-696. (Link, Online Appendix)

Questioning More: RT, America, and the Post-West World Order (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2021. Security Studies 30(1): 49-78. (Link, Online Appendix)

Propaganda and Protest in Autocracies (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2021. Journal of Conflict Resolution 65(5): 919-949. (Link, Online Appendix)

Regional Governance in Divided Societies: Evidence from the Republic of Congo and Kenya (with Mai Hassan). 2021. Journal of Politics 83(1): 40-57. (Link, Online Appendix)

Focal Moments and Protests in Autocracies: How Pro-Democracy Anniversaries Shape Dissent in China (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2020. Journal of Conflict Resolution 64(10): 1796-1827. (Link, Online Appendix)

• Op-ed in The New York Times

Propaganda and Electoral Constraints in Autocracies (with Erin Baggott Carter). 2018. APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter 28(2): 11-18. (Link)

The Rise of Kleptocracy: Autocrats versus Activists in Africa. 2018. Journal of Democracy 30(1): 29(1): 54-68. (Link)

• Featured by National Public Radio's RadioLab, the National Endowment for Democracy's Power 3.0 Project, and CSIS's Into Africa podcast

The Sparks that Become Prairie Fires: Religion and Preference Falsification in China (with Erin Baggott Carter). 

• Revise & Resubmit at Comparative Political Studies

The Kremlin and K Street: Evidence of Vote-Buying in the U.S. Congress (with Erin Baggott Carter and Eva Sky Isakovic).

Foreign Influence as International Politics: The Evolution of Russian Influence Campaigns in Washington (with Erin Baggott Carter and Eva Sky Isakovic).