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JOURNAL ARTICLES

2023. “Flood Risk and Household Losses: Empirical Findings from a Rural Community in Pakistan.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103930. With Muhammed Yaseen, Shahab E. Saqib, Supawan Visetnoi, and Jamshid Iqba.

2023. “Salary Negotiations and the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from a University Setting.” Journal of the Professoriate 14,1: 61-87. With Sarah J. Kilmer and Cameron Busacca.

 

2022. “FDI, Unmet Expectations, and the Prospects of Political Leaders: Evidence from Chinese Investment in Africa.” Journal of Politics. DOI: 10.1086/717849. With Xiaonan Wang and Margaret M. Pearson.

 

2022. “Does Chinese FDI in Africa Inspire Support for a China Model of Development?” World Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105738. With Margaret Pearson and Xiaonan Wang.

2021. “Where Terror Lies: Misrepresentation of Extremist Attitudes and Terrorist Attacks in the Sahel.” Terrorism and Political Violence. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2021.1987893. With Steven E. Finkel, Michael Neureiter, and Christopher Belasco. 

2021. “Clientelism and Community Support in Times of Crisis: Evidence Following Floods in Ghana.” Studies in Comparative International Development. DOI: 10.1007/s12116-021-09329-6.

2021. “Community Violence and Support for Violent Extremism:  Evidence from the Sahel.” Political Psychology 42, 1: 143-161. With Steven E. Finkel, Michael Neureiter, and Christopher Belasco.

2020. “The Grapevine Effect in Sensitive Data Collection: Examining Response Patterns in Support for Violent Extremism.” Political Science Research and Methods doi:10.1017/psrm.2020.34. With Steven E. Finkel, Michael Neureiter, and Christopher Belasco.

 

2019. “The Political Sources of Religious Identification: A Study on the Burkina Faso-Côte d’Ivoire Border.” British Journal of Political Science 49, 2: 421-441. With Daniel N. Posner.

2017. “Disaggregating Identities to Study Ethnic Conflict.” Ethnopolitics 16, 1: 12-20.

2015. “African Borders as Sources of Natural Experiments: Promise and Pitfalls.” Political Science Research and Methods 3, 2: 409-418. With Daniel N. Posner.

 

2014. “The Political Mobilization of Ethnicity and Religion in Africa.” American Political Science Review 108, 4: 801-816.

 

2014. “Pentecostalism as an Informal Political Institution: Experimental Evidence from Ghana.” Politics & Religion 7, 4: 761-787.

 

2014. “Measuring and Reducing Religious Bias in Post-Conflict Zones: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire.” Political Psychology 35, 2 (April): 267-289.

 

2013. “Economic Development Strategies and Conflict in Africa: The Cases of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.” Comparative Political Studies 46, 2 (Feb): 182-211.

 

2013. “Africa’s New Big Man Rule? Pentecostalism and Patronage in Ghana.” African Affairs 112, 446 (Jan): 1-21.

 

2009. “Religious Faith and Democracy: Evidence from the Afrobarometer Surveys.” Afrobarometer Working Paper No. 113 (with E. Gyimah-Boadi).

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

 

2020. “The Intoxication of Fieldwork: Obtaining Authorizations in Burkina Faso.” In Peter Krause and Ora Szekely, eds. Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science. Columbia University Press.

 

2019. “Identity, Internal State Conflict, and Religion.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.843.

 

2019. “The Politics of Pentecostalism in Africa.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1379.

 

2017. “Disaggregating Identities to Study Ethnic Conflict.” In Erika Forsberg, Jóhanna K. Birnir, and Christian Davenport, eds., Ethnic Politics and Conflict/Violence. New York: Routledge. Ch. 3.

 

2015. “Pentecostals and Politics: Redefining Big Man Rule in Africa.” In Martin Lindhardt, ed., Pentecostalism in Africa: Presence and Impact of Pneumatic Christianity in Postcolonial Societies. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers. Ch 13: 322-344.

 

2013. “Economic Development and Conflict Outcomes: Fifty Years of Evidence from West Africa.” In William Ascher and Natalia Mirovitskaya, eds., Economic Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Ch. 6: 141-166.

 

 

REVIEWS

 

2019. "Religion, Violence, and Local Power-Sharing in Nigeria by Laura Thaut Vinson." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 360. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57(2), 347-348.

MEDIA

2011. "Is Africa Losing Its Taste for Democracy?" Huffington Post. May 25, 2011.

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