Research and Data

 

 

 

Please contact me with any questions, or for the most up-to-date versions of working papers.

 

Publications

 

“Autocratic Audience Costs:  Regime Type and Signaling Resolve,” International Organization, Volume 62, Issue 01, pp 35-64. replication files

Winner of the Robert O. Keohane Award, presented annually for the best research article in International Organization written by an untenured scholar

 

“Strongmen and Straw Men: Authoritarian Regimes and the Initiation of International Conflict,” forthcoming, American Political Science Review

 

 

Articles currently under review

 

“An Experimental Investigation of the Democratic Peace” (with Michael Tomz)

 

“Making it Personal: Regime Type and Nuclear Proliferation” (with Christopher Way)

 

“Revolution, Personalist Dictatorships, and International Conflict” (with Jeff Colgan) (abstract here; please contact for latest version)

 

“Evaluating the Cost of Empty Threats” (with Ahmer Tarar) (abstract here; please contact for latest version)

 

 

Book project

 

Dictators at War (please email for chapters)

           Supported by a Smith Richardson Foundation Junior Faculty Book Award

 

 

Dataset project

 

The MIDipedia: An Expanded Database of Militarized Interstate Disputes (with Michael Tomz)  The MIDipedia is an internet wiki that includes:

· Narratives for every MID (as of Jan 2012, 1,200 MIDs between 1946 and 1992)

· Hyperlinks with scanned images of original source material

· New variables that will allow researchers to select samples of MIDs more appropriate to their research questions

 

“Red Herrings: Fishing Disputes, Regime Type, and the Militarized Interstate Disputes Dataset” (with Dara Kay Cohen)

 

 

A.D. White Library (Cornell)