Edited Volume

Co-editor (with Adam Auerbach, Alison Post, and Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro), “The Politics of Urban Informality: Innovations in Theory and Research Design from the City’s Margins,” special issue of Studies in Comparative International Development 53:3 (2018).

Articles

With Jessica Gottlieb and Janica Magat. “Taxation and Social Intermediaries: Experimental Evidence from Lagos, Nigeria.” British Journal of Political Science 55, e99 (2025).

With Lauren Young. “Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe.” American Political Science Review 118:2 (May 2024), 584-601.

   Honorable mention, Best Paper Award, APSA Democracy & Autocracy section.

With Kyle Gray. “Authoritarian experience and electoral success: the fate of authoritarian diasporans in Kenya.” Democratization 28:3 (2021), 502-520.

“Who trusts? Ethnicity, integration, and attitudes toward elected officials in urban Nigeria.” Comparative Political Studies 53:10-11 (2020), 1738-1766. Earlier version published as UNU-WIDER Working Paper 126/2017 (June 2017).  

With Roxana Gutierrez-Romero. “Does Electoral Violence affect vote choice and willingness to vote? Conjoint analysis of a vignette experiment.” Journal of Peace Research 57:1 (2020), 77-92. Earlier version published as CSAE Working Paper Series, no 2016-35 (2016).

With Ngonidzashe Munemo. “Elite Conflict, Compromise, and Enduring Authoritarianism: Polarization in Zimbabwe, 1980-2008.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 681 (2019), 209-226.

With Adam Auerbach, Alison Post, and Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro.“State, Society, and Informality in Cities of the Global South.”  Studies in Comparative International Development 53:3 (2018), 261-280.

“Can Polarization be Positive? Conflict and Institutional Development in Africa.” American Behavioral Scientist 62:1 (2018), 59-74.

With Cristina Bodea. “The Origins of Voluntary Compliance: Attitudes toward Taxation in Urban Nigeria.” British Journal of Political Science 46:1 (2016), 215-238. Previously published as CSAE Working Paper Series, no. 2013-2 (January 2013). Reprinted in Nic Cheeseman, ed., African Politics (Routledge, 2016).

“A New Twilight in Zimbabwe? The Perils of Power-sharing.” Journal of Democracy 25:2 (2014), 52-66.

“Violence and Urban Order in Nairobi, Kenya, and Lagos, Nigeria,” Studies in Comparative International Development 48:3 (2013), 240-262.

“Polarization as Craft: Party Formation and State Violence in Zimbabwe.” Comparative Politics 38:4 (2006), 419-438.

Honorable mention, African Politics Conference Group (APSA / ASA) Best Article Award, 2007.

“Une alliance qui se délite? Contrôle partisan et dynamiques internes dans le Zanu-PF,” Politique Africaine 93 (2004), 105-124.