Publications

1. From gridlock to polarization (with Marc S. Jacob and Gabriele Gratton)
Economic Journal  [Conditionally Accepted]
-  Chicago Booth Stigler Center Working Paper 341
* In the media: Not Another Politics podcast [here] - November 16, 2023.
* In the media: ProMarket article [here] - June 26, 2024.
* POLECONUK Webinar recording [here] - October 16, 2023.

2. Bad democracy traps (with Gabriele Gratton and Hasin Yousaf)
Economic Journal [Accepted, preprint]

3.  Legislative hostage-taking (with Giovanni Andreottola)
European Economic Review, 180, 2025. [preprint]

4.  Proportionality-based fairness and strategyproofness in the facility location problem  (with Haris Aziz, Alex Lam, and Toby Walsh)
Journal of Mathematical Economics, 119, 2025. [preprint, older version with additional results]

5.  Feigning politicians
Journal of Politics, 87(1), 2025, pp. 70–84. [preprint]
* In the media: JOP Blog Post [here] - December, 2024.

6. Liberty, security, and accountability: The rise and fall of illiberal democracies (with Gabriele Gratton)
Review of Economic Studies, 91(1), 2024, pp. 340–371. [preprint]
* Winner of the Oliver Williamson Best Paper Award at 2021 SIOE Conference [Announcement].
* In the media: ProMarket article [here] - October 20, 2021.

7. Gridlock, leverage, and policy bundling
Journal of Public Economics, 212, 2022. [preprint]  

8. A characterization of proportionally representative committees (with Haris Aziz)
Games and Economic Behavior, 133, 2022, pp. 248–255. [preprint]  

9. Political capital  (with Gabriele Gratton and Richard Holden)
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 38(3), 2022, pp. 632–674.  [preprint]

10. The capacity constrained facility location problem  (with H. Aziz, H. Chan and D. C. Parkes)
Games and Economic Behavior, 124, 2020, pp. 478–490. [preprint]

11. The expanding approvals rule: Improving proportional representation and monotonicity (with H. Aziz)
Social Choice and Welfare,  54(1), 2020, pp. 1–45. [preprint]

12. Voting on large graphs: An application of graph limit theory
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems  — Series A, 38(4), 2018, pp. 1719–1744. [preprint]

Working Papers

1.  When growth leads to zero-sum conflict (with Álvaro Delgado-Vega)
- CEPR Discussion Paper 21010

2. Legislative effectiveness, trade shocks, and electoral accountability (with Davide Cipullo)
R&R Economic Journal
- CESifo Working Paper 11791

3. Drain the swamp: A theory of anti-elite populism (with Gabriele Gratton)
R&R Journal of Public Economics
- CEPR Discussion Paper 21048
- Chicago Booth Stigler Center Working Paper 369
* In the media: ProMarket article [here] - October 9, 2023.

4. Democratic resilience (with Marc S. Jacob and Milan Svolik). [In progress]

5. Signaling via elite-induced referendums (with Pedro P. Pérez-Velasco, PhD student at ETH Zürich). 

Conference Publications

1. Proportionally representative clustering  (with H. Aziz, S. Morota Chu, and J. Vollen)
WINE: Conference on Web and Internet Economics,  2024 [extended version]

2. Strategyproof and proportionally fair facility location  (with H. Aziz, A. Lam, and T. Walsh)
WINE: Conference on Web and Internet Economics,  2022, p.  351. [Abstract only, JME journal version]

3. Proportionally representative participatory budgeting with ordinal preferences (with H. Aziz)
AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021, pp. 5110–5118.

4. Facility location problem with capacity constraints: Algorithmic and mechanism design perspectives (with H. Aziz, H. Chan, B. Li and T. Walsh) 
AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020, pp. 1806–1813.

5.  The political economy of blockchain governance (with D. J. Moroz and D. C. Parkes)
Cryptoeconomic Systems (MIT Press: online journal),  2020.  [Abstract only, working paper - due to be updated]

6. The capacity constrained facility location problem  (with H. Aziz, H. Chan and D. C. Parkes)
WINE: Conference on Web and Internet Economics,  2019, p. 336.  [Abstract only, GEB journal version]

7.  Proportionally representative participatory budgeting: Axioms and algorithms (with H. Aziz and N. Talmon)
AAMAS: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2018, pp. 23–31.

8. Sub-committee approval voting and generalised representation axioms (with H. Aziz) 
AIES: AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, 2018, pp. 3–9.