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://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-06785-4.
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
Randomized Control Trials and Generalizability for Policy and Practice: Evidence from a Review of Misinformation Studies (with Julie Anne Weaver and Michelle Du), chapter for the edited volume Rethinking Generalizability, eds. Nicholas Rush Smith and Erica Simmons.
The Backfire Effect of Extrajudicial Violence: Evidence from Mexican Municipalities (with Haley Daarstad, Sandra Ley, and Lauren Young).
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.
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.
Harms and Benefits of Asking Research Participants About Political Violence: Experimental Evidence from Colombia, Mexico, and Nigeria (with Rebecca Littman, Andrés Moya, Abdulrasheed Isah, Graeme Blair, Sandra Ley, Dankat Sofía Granados, Elayne Stecher, Manuel Moscoso-Rojas & Lauren Young).
The Effects of Asking about Different Forms of Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mexico (with Manuel Moscoso-Rojas, Sandra Ley, Rebecca Littman, and Lauren Young).
Using Local Media to Study Agentic Processes of Subnational Authoritarianism and Democratic Erosion in the United States (with Jaime Settle).
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 Rebecca Littman, Andrés Moya, Abdulrasheed Isah, Graeme Blair, Sandra Ley, Dankat Sofía Granados, Elayne Stecher, Manuel Moscoso-Rojas & 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).
The Subnational US Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (with Jaime Settle).
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.