State Development in Western Europe from 1500 Onwards
Chapter in Institutional Dynamics and Organizational Complexity, Jenna Bednar, Thomas Currie, Sergey Gavrilets, Peter Richerson, and John Wallis, Editors. Cultural Evolution Society, 1-15, 2025
State Capacity in Historical Political Economy, with Yuhua Wang
Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, Jeffrey Jenkins and Jared Rubin, Editors. Oxford, 253-69, 2024
New Perspectives on State Formation
Review Essay in Perspectives on Politics, 21: 1447-52, 2023
Napoleon in Italy: A Legacy of Institutional Reform?, with Giovanni Federico
Chapter in The Crucible of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare and European Transitions to Modern Economic Growth, Patrick O'Brien, Editor. Brill, 141-70, 2022
Review of David Stasavage, The Decline and Rise of Democracy
Governance, 34: 959-60, 2021
State Capacity, Economic Development, and the Role of History
Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association, 29: 42-9, 2019
Review of Wenkai He, Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China
Economic History Review, 68: 1467-8, 2015
Review of Carl Mosk, Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Eurasia
Journal of Economic History, 74: 924-5, 2014
Review of Bartolome Yun-Casalilla and Patrick O’Brien, The Rise of Fiscal States: A Global History, 1500-1914
Journal of Economic History, 73: 288-90, 2013
Review of David Stasavage, States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities
Journal of Economic History, 72: 284-6, 2012
Review of Lars Magnusson, Nation, State, and the Industrial Revolution: The Visible Hand
Journal of Economic History, 71: 807-9, 2011
Review of Jose Luis Cardoso and Pedro Lains, Paying for the Liberal State: The Rise of Public Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Journal of Economic History, 71: 233-4, 2011