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I am a Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and the Gillian Peele Fellow in Politics at Lady Margaret Hall. My research focuses primarily on the relationship between political institutions and public policy outcomes, in areas such as education, healthcare, and the environment. I also have a broad interest in questions related to electoral accountability, and in particular how it is affected by policy attribution.
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News
- My work on campaign donations and deforestation in Colombia with Mount Prem, Nelson Ruiz and David Vargas was recently published in the American Political Science Review. See this post for the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog about the research.
- My article Security in the Absence of a State: Traditional Authority, Livestock Trading, and Maritime Piracy in Northern Somalia (with Avidit Acharya and J. Andrew Harris) won the 2022 Elinor Ostrom Award for the best article published in the Journal of Theoretical Politics, awarded by the American Political Science Association’s Formal Theory section.
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Most recent publications
- Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation (with Mounu Prem, Nelson A. Ruiz and David Vargas), American Political Science Review (2023).
- Terrorism, Trust, and Identity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nigeria (with Arinze Nwokolo), American Journal of Political Science, (2023).
- Rallying in fear? Estimating the effect of the UK COVID-19 lockdown with a natural experiment (with Andrew C. Eggers), European Journal of Political Research, 61 (2022).