Journal Articles:

"Personalist Ruling Parties in Democracies." Democratization, 2022, Vol. 29, No. 5 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jia Li, and Joseph Wright)

"How Personalist Politics is Changing Democracies." Journal of Democracy, 2021, Vol. 32, No. 3 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Carisa Nietsche, Joseph Wright)

"Elections and Capital Flight: A Response to Goldsmith." International Studies Quarterly, 2020, Vol. 64, No. 1

"Personalization of Power and Repression in Dictatorships." Journal of Politics, 2020, Vol. 82, No. 1 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Joseph Wright, and Xu Xu)

"The Legacy of Military Dictatorship: Explaining Violent Crime in Democracies." International Political Science Review, 2019, Vol. 40, No. 3

"Voter Turnout and Opposition Performance in Competitive Authoritarian Elections." Electoral Studies, 2018, Vol. 54

"Elections and Capital Flight: Evidence from Africa." International Studies Quarterly, 2018, Vol. 62, No. 1

"Countering Coups: Leadership Succession Rules in Dictatorships." Comparative Political Studies, 2017, Vol. 50, No. 7 (with Elizabeth A. Stein)

"Pathways to Democratization in Personalist Dictatorships." Democratization, 2017, Vol. 24, No. 1 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor)

"How Oil Income and Missing Hydrocarbon Rents Data Influence Autocratic Survival: A Response to Lucas and Richter (2016)." Research and Politics, 2017, Vol. 4, No. 3 (with Joseph Wright)

"Are Coups Good for Democracy? A Response to Miller (2016)." Research and Politics, 2017, Vol. 4, No. 2 (with George Derpanopoulos, Barbara Geddes, and Joseph Wright)

"When Dictators Die." Journal of Democracy, 2016, Vol. 27, No. 4 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor)

"The Legacy of Dictatorship for Democratic Parties in Latin America." Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2016, Vol. 8, No. 1 (with Barbara Geddes)

"Are Coups Good for Democracy?" Research and Politics, 2016, Vol. 3, No. 1 (with George Derpanopoulos, Barbara Geddes, and Joseph Wright), Appendix here

"Oil and Autocratic Regime Survival.'' British Journal of Political Science, 2015, Vol. 45 No. 2 (with Joseph Wright and Barbara Geddes)

"A Dictator's Toolkit: Understanding How Cooptation Affects Repression in Autocracies."  Journal of Peace Research, 2014, Vol. 51 No. 3 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor)

"Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions: A New Data Set." Perspectives on Politics, 2014, Vol. 12 No. 2 (with Barbara Geddes and Joseph Wright)

* Top ten most cited articles in Perspectives on Politics since 2003 

"Military Rule." Annual Review of Political Science, 2014, Vol. 17 No. 1 (with Barbara Geddes and Joseph Wright)

"Revisiting the Concept of the Failed State: Bringing the State Back In." Third World Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 34 No. 8 (with Natasha Ezrow)