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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 new paper on Coups and Social Trust, co-authored with Thomas Brailey and Thomas Isbell, was recently included in the Afrobarometer working paper series. In it we make use of a natural experiment in Burkina Faso, as well as cross-national survey data, to study the effects of coups on social trust.
- My work on campaign donations and deforestation in Colombia with Mounu 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.
Recent work
- Coups and Social Trust: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Burkina Faso (with Thomas Brailey and Thomas Isbell), Afrobarometer Working Paper, WP204 (2024).
- Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation (with Mounu Prem, Nelson A. Ruiz and David Vargas), American Political Science Review, 118:2 (2024).
- Terrorism, Trust, and Identity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nigeria (with Arinze Nwokolo), American Journal of Political Science, (2023).