Research

Public Spending, Financial Technologies, and Corruption

Bypassing bribes: mobile money and corruption in Africa (with Ashley Blair Simpson). Journal of International Development. (OnlineFirst).

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. Forthcoming.

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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