Research

Public Spending, Financial Technologies, and Corruption

Bypassing bribes: mobile money and corruption in Africa (with Ashley Blair Simpson). 2025. Journal of International Development 37, no. 7: 1454-1472.

How do local public spending decisions shape corruption perceptions? Evidence from Mexico (with Theodore Kahn). 2022. Latin American Politics and Society 64, no. 3: 67-92.

Public investment versus government consumption: how FDI shocks shape the composition of subnational spending in Mexico (with Theodore Kahn). 2022. Review of International Political Economy 29, no. 2: 502-537.

Governance, Institutional Trust, and Development

How electoral competition shapes local public goods provision in South Africa. 2022. Democratization 29, no. 2: 253-275.

Explaining Variation in Levels of Public (Dis)trust in Traditional Leaders: Colonial Ruling Strategies and Contemporary Roles in Governance. 2021. Government and Opposition: An International Journal of Comparative Politics 56, no. 4: 661-682.

Breaking down rural and urban bias and interrogating spatial inequality, evidence from South Africa. 2017. Development Policy Review 35: O246-0269.

Analysing post-apartheid poverty trends by geo-type, 1997-2012: The understated role of urbanisation and social grants. 2017. Development Southern Africa 34, no. 2: 151-167.

Attitudes toward Immigration Policy and Immigrants

Regional Economic Communities and attitudes toward free cross-border movement in Africa. 2025. International Migration Review (OnlineFirst).

Addressing Epistemic Inequalities in Scholarship and Teaching

Teaching and researching international development: amplifying voices from the Global South (with Jorge Antonio Asprón Ramírez). 2024. The Journal of International Development 36, no. 1: 127-145.

So many ‘Africanists’, so few Africans: reshaping our understanding of ‘African politics’ through greater nuance and amplification of African voices. 2020. Review of African Political Economy 47, no. 166: 621-637. [Shorter blog available here]

Response Bias in Surveys on Political Attitudes

Gender-of-interviewer effects on support for women’s rights and democracy in Africa. Government and Opposition: An International Journal of Comparative Politics (OnlineFirst).

Bystanders and response bias in face-to-face surveys in Africa. 2022. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 25, no. 3: 361-377. [Shorter blog available here]

“Fear-of-the-State Bias” in Survey Data. 2018. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 30, no. 4: 631-651.

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