RESEARCH
Comparative ethnic politics, political violence, elections, Southeast Asia
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PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
2024 Third Time's the Charm: The Youth Vote and Prabowo's Victory in the 2024 Indonesian Presidential Election (with Nick Kuipers and Nathanael Gratias Sumatoyo) Pacific Affairs 97(3): 559-581
2024 Narratives of Democracy: Educated Elites' Responses to Democratic Erosion in Indonesia (with Cheryl Cosslett) Asian Journal of Comparative Politics 9(1): 69-120. *
2021 The Normalization of Intolerance: The 2019 Presidential Election in Indonesia (with Dimitar Gueorguiev and Aim Sinpeng) Electoral Studies 74: 1-10. Data Replication
2019 A New Typology of Electoral Violence: Insights from Indonesia (with S.P. Harish). Terrorism and Political Violence (31) Issue 4: 687-711.
2017 Political Competition and Ethnic Riots in Democratic Transition: A Lesson from Indonesia British Journal of Political Science (47) 3: 631-651. Online appendix Data
WORKING PAPERS
"Becoming `Native': Migration, Diasporic Identity, and the Politics of Membership in Indonesia" (with Thomas Pepinsky)
"Female Political Representation in New Democracies" (with Anjali Hazra) *
"Why Target Candidates, Not Voters: Pre-Election Violence in Indonesia" (with S.P. Harish)
"Othering" Rhetoric in Election Campaigns: Insights from Indonesia (with Cheryl Cosslett) *
"Can a Shared National Identity Trump Ethnic Favoritism? Experimental Evidence from Singapore" (with Guillem Riambau)
*) Papers written with undergraduate students
CHAPTERS IN VOLUMES
2024 "State Institutions in North Sumatra, Indonesia: The National Identification of the Bataks" in State Institutions, Civic Associations, and Identity Demands: Regional Movements in Greater Southeast Asia, edited by Amy Liu and Joel Selway. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, pp. 56-72.
2020 “Electoral Violence in Indonesia 20 years after Reformasi” (with S.P. Harish) in Democracy in Indonesia: From Stagnation to Regression, edited by Thomas Power and Eve Warburton. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute .
Indonesian translation of the chapter published in September 2021 by Gramedia, Jakarta. Translation by Usman Hamid and Darmawan Triwibowo.
BOOK REVIEWS
2023 "Review of When Violence Works: Postconflict Violence and Peace in Indonesia. By Patrick Barron. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 54(3) :1-3.
2023 "Review of Alternatives in Mobilization: Ethnicity, Religion, and Political Conflict. By Johanna Birnir and Nil Seda Satana. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022." Perspective on Politics 21(2): 761-763.
2019 “Review of Power Broking in the Shade: Party Finances and Money Politics in Southeast Asia. By Wolfgang Sachsenröder. Singapore: World Scientific, 2018. Hardcover: 191pp.” Journal of Contemporary Southeast Asia 41(2): 320-322.
MEDIA
The Jakarta Post review of new scholarship on Indonesia, 25 September 2019
RICE media interview on the 2019 presidential election in Indonesia, April 2019
INSIGHT interview on 2017 Jakarta governor race. Channel News Asia. 19 May 2017.
FOCUS interview on 2017 Jakarta governor race Channel 8 December 2016
FOCUS interview on 2017 Jakarta governor race Channel 8 November 2016. Additional web special here
Reducing Decentralization Dysfunction (with Malcolm McPherson) The Jakarta Post May 2014