Peer-reviewed
The Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (DEED) (with Robert A. Blair, Jessica Gottlieb, Laura Paler, Julie Anne Weaver, & Benjamin Yoel). Forthcoming. Scientific Data. https://democratic-erosion.org/dataset/.
Couples Therapy for a Divided America: Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization (with Robert A. Blair, Donghyun Danny Choi, Jessica Gottlieb, Laura Gamboa-Gutierrez, Amanda Lea Robinson, Steven C. Rosenzweig, Megan M. Turnbull, & Emily A. West), 2025. Political Behavior, 47: 1363-1388. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-09993-z.
Moral reasoning and support for punitive violence after crime (with Omar García-Ponce, Jorge Olmos Camarillo, Lauren Young, and Thomas Zeitzoff). 2024. Journal of Peace Research, 62(3): 660-674. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433241249341.
An Events-Based Approach to Understanding Democratic Erosion (with Robert A. Blair, Jessica Gottlieb, & Laura Paler). 2024. PS: Political Science & Politics, 57(2): 208-15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096523001026.
From Principles to Practice: Methods to Increase the Transparency of Research Ethics in Violent Contexts (with Lauren Young). 2022. Political Science Research and Methods, 10(4): 840-847. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2021.48.
Teaching Trump: Why Comparative Politics Makes Students More Optimistic About US Democracy (with Robert A. Blair and Shelby Grossman). 2019. PS: Political Science & Politics, 52(2): 347-52. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096518002123.
Under review
The Limits of Deliberation: A Field Experiment on Criminal Justice Preferences in Mexico (with Omar García-Ponce, Lauren Young, and Thomas Zeitzoff), available upon request.
Chapters
The Criminal Justice System in Mexico (with Matthew Ingram). 2022. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1994.
A Transformed Latin America in a Rapidly Changing World (with Abraham F. Lowenthal). 2015. In Jorge I. Domínguez and Ana Covarrubias (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World. Routledge: New York. https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781317621850_A24448645/preview-9781317621850_A24448645.pdf.
Working Papers
Lynching and Selective State Intervention to Manage Local Order: Evidence from Mexico, available upon request.
Crime deterrent or downward spiral? Longitudinal evidence on the effects of lynchings on crime from Mexico (with Haley Daarstad, Sandra Ley, and Lauren Young), available upon request.
Human Rights Backlash from Below: Citizen Deliberations on Justice during Criminal Wars, available upon request.
Making or Breaking the Rule of Law? Attitudes toward Vigilante Crime Control in Mexico, available upon request.
Political Science Research, Generalizability, and Policy Engagement (with Michelle Du and Julie Weaver).
Work in progress
The Causes and Effects of Lynchings in Mexico (with Sandra Ley & Lauren Young), funded by The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS).
Asking About Violence (with Graeme Blair, Sandra Ley, Rebecca Littman, Andrés Moya, Elayne Stecher & Lauren Young), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).
Dissidents Archive, funded by The Newcomb Institute and The Center for InterAmerican Policy and Research, Tulane University.
Empirical Evidence to Improve Informed Consent in the Social Sciences, funded by the National Science Foundation (with Sebastian Karcher, Dessislava Kirilova, and Derek Robey).
Related publications
Measuring Democratic Erosion: A Guide for Policymakers and Practitioners, Democratic Erosion Consortium. https://democratic-erosion.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/A-Guide-to-Measuring-Democratic-Erosion.pdf.
Transparency in research ethics: Methods to monitor principles and practice in violent contexts, EGAP Methods Guides. https://egap.org/resource/standards-discussion-ethics-violent-contexts/.
Democratic Erosion in Comparative Perspective: Lessons from a Multi-University Consortium (with Robert A. Blair, Jessica Gottlieb, and Shelby Grossman). 2019. In Finkel, Eugene, Adria Lawrence and Andrew Mertha (eds.). The US in Comparative Perspective. Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association. 29(1): 77-84. https://www.comparativepoliticsnewsletter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CP-Newsletter-Spring-19-The-US-In-Comparative-Perspective.pdf.
Why Human Rights are Losing their Good Reputation. Political Violence @ a Glance, July 28, 2021. https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2021/07/28/what-gives-human-rights-a-bad-name-in-the-21st-century/.
Look Beyond Our Borders (with Robert A. Blair and Shelby Grossman). Inside Higher Ed, March 6, 2019. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/03/06/looking-abroad-increases-optimism-about-our-democracy-us-opinion.