RESEARCH

Books

Red Lines: The New Left and the FBI in the Global Cold War [in progress]

Whistleblowers, Leakers, and Their Networks, from Snowden to Samizdat, 2019, Rowman & Littlefield (Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series). [See companion website here.]

Secrecy in the Sunshine Era: The Promise and Failures of U.S. Open Government Laws, 2014, University Press of Kansas.

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

"Foreign Communist Involvement in El Salvador's War: The White Paper Reconsidered." Forthcoming. Journal of Cold War Studies. 

“Source Alerts Can Reduce the Harms of Foreign Disinformation” (with Alexandra Reckendorf and Amanda Wintersieck). 2021. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review." 

“The Electoral Consequences of Voter Ignorance.” 2012. Electoral Studies. 31(4): 796–815 [web appendix].

“Political Awareness, Corruption Perceptions and Democratic Accountability in Latin America.” 2012. Acta Politica. 47: 67–90.

“Parliaments and Citizens in Latin America.” 2012. The Journal of Legislative Studies. 18(3-4): 441-462.

“Evidence from Public Opinion” (with David Samuels). 2011. In Steven Levitsky and Kenneth Roberts, eds., The Resurgence of the Latin American Left. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

“The Impact of Co-Infection with Hepatitis C Virus and HIV on the Tolerability of Antiretroviral Therapy.” 2000. AIDS 14(4): 463, with David C. Melvin; Jenny K. Lee; Elizabeth Belsey; and Robert L. Murphy.

Book reviews

Review of Michael Schudson, The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945–1975 (Harvard University Press, 2015) in Political Science Quarterly, 2017.

Review of Mona Lyne, The Voter’s Dilemma and Democratic Accountability: Latin America and Beyond (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008) in Latin American Politics and Society,  2010.

Popular writing, interviews, etc.

Quoted in “Le choix du gouverneur de la Virginie capte l’attention des États-Unis,” Le Devoir [Montreal, Quebec, Canada], https://www.ledevoir.com/monde/etats-unis/644262/etats-unis-les-yeux-rives-sur-la-virginie. 

Quoted in “Biden Officials Met Privately with 3M, AmerisourceBergen, PhRMA, and More to Debate Shoring up the National Stockpile,” STAT News, April 20, 2021, https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/20/biden-met-privately-shoring-up-stockpile/. 

Quoted in “‘Like Yelling Squirrel’: White House Goes After Media Over Russia Bounty Story,” Politico, July 4, 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/04/white-house-media-trump-russia-bounty-348643 [also published at Yahoo News, https://news.yahoo.com/yelling-squirrel-white-house-goes-110019782.html].

Quoted in “An Effort to Improve Scientific Integrity in the Federal Government,” Undark magazine [MIT], December 2, 2019, https://undark.org/2019/12/02/improving-scientific-integrity-federal-government/.

Quoted in “Where Does the Term “Whistleblower” Come from, Anyway?” Reader’s Digest, October 2019, https://www.rd.com/culture/origin-of-term-whistleblower/.

Quoted in "Crime e castigo," Crusoé [Brazil], July 12, 2019, https://crusoe.com.br/edicoes/63/crime-e-castigo/.

Quoted in “Cambridge Analytica and the Future of Facebook: The Bleak Reality,” RVA Mag, April 5, 2018, https://rvamag.com/news/cambridge-analytica-and-the-future-of-facebook-the-bleak-reality.html.

Quoted in “When Is a Leak Ethical?” The Conversation, June 12, 2017,  https://theconversation.com/when-is-a-leak-ethical-79100 [same article excerpted in Fast Company (https://www.fastcompany.com/40430553/why-the-threat-of-prison-wont-stop-leaks) and Salon (http://www.salon.com/2017/06/18/when-is-a-leak-ethical_partner/)]. 

Quoted in “Isolated from Washington Establishment, Trump Struggles for Presidential Victories,” Washington Times, June 20, 2017,  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/20/donald-trumps-isolation-cripples-agenda/. 

Quoted in “Do Leaks to the Media Really Put Lives at Risk?” The Washington Post, May 19, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/19/do-leaks-to-the-media-really-put-lives-at-risk/?utm_term=.e8ade35593fb. 

Quoted in Chelsea Manning Commutation Won’t Save Obama’s Transparency Legacy,” Columbia Journalism Review, January 18, 2017, https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/obama_chelsea_manning_commute.php. 

Quoted in in “Did Obama Really Wage A ‘War On Whistleblowers’?” November 27, 2016, Law 360, https://www.law360.com/articles/864027.

Quoted in “Report Finds Weak US Enforcement of Foreign Lobbyists, Voice of America, September 07, 2016, http://www.voanews.com/a/report-finds-weak-us-enforcement-of-foreign-lobbyists/3497739.html. 

Quoted in “VCU Professor Examines U.S Secrecy, Richmond Peace Education Center newsletter, July/August 2015, http://www.rpec.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/July-Aug-2015.pdf. 

Interview on Hearsay Culture radio show and podcast, KZSU-FM (Stanford University), July 17, 2015, http://www.hearsayculture.com/. 

Quoted in “Obama: Press Freedom ‘Vital’ to Democracy,” CBS News, May 1, 2015, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-press-freedom-vital-to-democracy/.

Interview on With Good Reason radio [NPR], “Secrecy in the ‘Sunshine Era’,” March 28, 2015, http://withgoodreasonradio.org/2015/03/secrecy-in-the-sunshine-era/ (a segment of the interview also aired during NPR’s Morning Edition as well as All Things Considered programs in Virginia).

“Secrecy in the So-Called "Most Transparent" Administration in US History” [op-ed], TechPresident.com, March 18, 2015, http://techpresident.com/news/25489/secrecy-most-transparent-administration-history. 

“Has Obama Delivered the ‘Most Transparent’ Administration in History?”  [op-ed], The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post, March 16, 2015, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/03/16/has-obama-delivered-the-most-transparent-administration-in-history/.