Full CV

Selected publications:

ARTICLES:

“Perceptions and Drivers of Civic Activism: the cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Poland,” with Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2025.

“Creating New Knowledge with Undergraduate Students: Institutional Incentives and Faculty Agency.” With Kelebogile Zvobgo, Jaime E. Settle, and Michael J. Tierney. PS: Political Science & Politics 56, no. 4 (2023): 512–18. 

“Promoting peace and intercultural understanding through sustained partnership: The American-Bosnian Collaboration Project” with Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić and Ethan Brown (’21), in Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić and Sara Clarke-Habibi eds., Peace Pedagogies in Bosnia and Herzegovina: theory and practice in formal education, Springer, 2023, 315-332, 

 “Civic Engagement and its Disparate Goals in Bosnia-Herzegovina,” East European Politics and Societies, Published online, June 10, 2022.

“Individualized Text Messages about Public Services Fail to Sway Voters: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Ugandan Elections” with Ryan Jablonski, Mark Buntaine, and Dan Nielson, Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2021, 1–13.

 “Voter information campaigns and political accountability: Cumulative findings from a preregistered meta-analysis of coordinated trials.” with T. Dunning (lead author), G. Grossman, M. Humphreys, S. Hyde, C. McIntosh, G. Nellis, C. L. Adida, E. Arias, C. Bicalho, T.C. Boas, M. T. Buntaine, S. Chauchard, A. Chowdhury, J. Gottlieb, F.D. Hidalgo, M. Holmlund, R. Jablonski, E. Kramon, H. Larreguy, M. Lierl, J. Marshall, G. McClendon, M. A. Melo, D. L. Nielson, M. R. Platas, P. Querubín, P. Raffler, N. Sircar, Science Advances 5, eaaw2612, 3, July 2019, 1-10. 

“Budgets, SMS Texts, and Votes in Uganda,” with Mark Buntaine, Sarah Bush, Ryan Jablonski, and Dan Nielson. In Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I, edited by Thad Dunning, Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Susan Hyde and Craig McIntosh, 188-220. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

“Understanding Skepticism of Internationally Supported Civil Society Groups in Serbia Using Fieldwork and Semi-Structured Interviews,” with Slađana Danković, SAGE Research Methods Cases Politics & International Relations, January 2019.

“Development and Assessment of Intercultural Communicative Competences of Primary Students in Informal Learning Contexts,” with Larisa Kasumagic-Kafedžić, Alma Žero, and Jason Nagel (’17), JACET-LTC Bulletin: Language Teacher Cognition Research Bulletin (2018-2019): 26-52.

“SMS Texts on Corruption Help Ugandan Voters Hold Elected Councillors Accountable at the Polls,” with Mark T. Buntaine, Ryan Jablonski, and Dan L. Nielson, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 26 (June 11, 2018): 668-6673.

“Making Local Government Work Better: How local and internationally sponsored institutions interact to influence performance in Bosnia-Herzegovina,” with Mirna Jusić, Governance 31 (2018): 665–682.

“Public Scepticism of Civil Society Organisations:  norms, citizen priorities, and local groups in post-socialist Serbia” with Slađana Danković, East European Politics 33, No. 2 (2017): 210-232.  

“Gauging the Community Impact of State-building at the Local Level in the Western Balkans,” Special Issue on Research on State-building in the Western Balkans: Comparative Methodologies, Suedosteuropa 60, No. 4 (2013): 567-575. 

“Explaining the Varying Impact of International Aid for Local Democratic Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina” Problems of Post-Communism 59, No. 1 (January/February 2012): 30-43.

“The constraints of European conditionality in the Western Balkans,” special issue of Europe-Asia Studies, “Unconditional Conditionality? The Impact of EU Conditionality in the Western Balkans” 63, No. 10 (December 2011): 1-6.

“Assessing International Efforts to Promote Good Local Governance in the Western Balkans,” Democratization 17 (October 2010): 1021-1046, 

“Explaining Support for Non-nationalist Parties in Post-conflict Societies in the Balkans,” Europe-Asia Studies 61, No. 4 (June 2009): 565-91.

“What is to Be Done? Succession from the League of Communists of Croatia,” with Mark Baskin in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Special Issue on Comparative Perspectives on Communist Party Successor Parties of Central and Eastern Europe 41, No. 2 (September/December 2008): 1-20 

“Generating Social Capital for Bridging Ethnic Divisions in the Balkans: The Case of Two Bosniak Cities” Ethnic and Racial Studies 29, No. 1 (January 2006): 79-103.