Research
Research
State and Regime Formation
-Judicial Institutions: The Tool for Aspiring Rulers, with Ana Arjona
-Kings as Judges: Power, Justice, and the Origins of Parliaments, 2021, Cambridge University Press
-The More War, The Less State: The Inverse Relationship between War, State Size, and “Stateness,” Revise and Resubmit
-No Taxation of Elites, No Representation: State Capacity and the Origins of Representation, 2015, Politics and Society
-Urbanization before 1500: A Flawed Proxy for Capital, Under Review
Property Rights
-Security of Property Rights, Ownership, and Development: A Misguided Paradigm
-Balance of Power, Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Political Thought, 2014, Ed. M. T. Gibbons. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. October
-The Balance of Power: The International Wanderings of a Liberal Idea, 2007, Perspectives on Politics
Franklin L. Burdette Award, Divisional Nomination
-The Democratic Peace as a Limiting Case of Balance of Power Theory
-Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War: Causes, Pretexts and Realist Traditions, Hellenic Studies
-The Equalizing Hand: Why Adam Smith Thought the Market Should Produce Wealth Without Steep Inequality, 2013, Perspectives on Politics
-Adam Smith and Positive Liberty: A Response to Lisa Herzog's, Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory, Oxford University Press, 2013, Adam Smith Review, Vol 10, 2017
-Adam Smith and the Unnatural Mode of Progress: The Misguided Premises of International Trade Theory