Academic Publications
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Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections. 2013. Cambridge University Press. Series on the Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
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Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes. 2014. Coedited with Tom Ginsburg. Cambridge University Press. Series on Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy.
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"The Culture of Corruption Across Generations: an Empirical Study of Intergenerational Bribery Attitudes Behavior, Journal of Politics, forthcoming.
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Recipient of SAGE Best Paper Award, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association (formerly titled: "Intergenerational Persistence of Attitudes Toward Corruption.")
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"Dead but not Gone: Contemporary Legacies of Communism, Imperialism, and Authoritarianism," with Dan Slater and Jason Wittenberg, Annual Review of Political Science. 2018.
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"Circles of Trust: A Proposal for Better Migrant Screening," with Tom Ginsburg, Journal of Legal Studies. Forthcoming.
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Coverage in Vox.
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“When the (Facebook) Status and the (Socioeconomic) Status Went down to the Street: Communications, Political Involvement and the Climate of Opinion in the Summer 2011 Protest,” with Jacob Shamir and Yossi David, Megamot, 1 (July), 2017.
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"Election Rigging," entry in SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior. 2017.
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"Electoral Clientelism and Vote Buying in Mexico" (in Spanish), in Ugalde and Hernández Quintana, eds., Fortalezas y Debilidades del Sistema Electoral Mexicano 1990-2015. 2017.
with L. Duquette-Rury, J.A. Hernández-Company, and J.F. Ibarra, Latin American Research Review, 51(1), 2016.
American Journal of Political Science, 59(1), 2015.
Journal of Politics 74:3, 2012. Supplementary materials.
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"Can International Election Monitoring Harm Governance?" with Daniela Donno
Journal of Politics 74:2, 2012. Supplementary materials.
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"Comparing the Accuracy of RDD Telephone Surveys and Internet Surveys Conducted with Probability and Non-Probability Samples," with Yager, Krosnick, and others
Political Opinion Quarterly 75:4, 2011. Supplementary materials.
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"Unintended Consequences of Election Monitoring," refereed chapter.
In Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation, edited by Alvarez, Hall, and Hyde, Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Research in Progress
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"Online Political Information: Facebook Ads, Electorate Saturation, and Electoral Accountability in Mexico," with José Ramón Enríquez, Horacio Larreguy, and John Marshall.
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"The Quality of Vote Tallies: Causes and Consequences," with Cristian Challú and Enrique Seira.
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"The Effect of Neighborhoods on Voting Behavior: Evidence from Mexico," with Frederico Finan and Enrique Seira.
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"Donating Time for Democracy: A Field Experimental Study on Citizen Provision of Political Public Goods," with Andrei Gomberg, Ulrike Malmendier, and Enrique Seira.
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Recipient of JPAL grant, Governance Initiative. Link to Project Summary.
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"Climate of Opinion as a Driver of Collective Action: Evidence from the 2011 Israeli Social Protest Movement," with Yossi David and Jacob Shamir.
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"Who Has a Use for the Law? A Theory of the Political Roots of the Rule of Law," with César Martinelli and Andrei Gomberg.
Media and Opinion
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Interviewed on the topic of corruption for El Tiempo, Bogotá, Colombia (video, in Spanish), 2017.
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"Tracking the Provenance of Corruption," interview in SAGE Social Science Space and SAGE Connection, 2014.
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"Cinco Millones de Votos, ¿Comprados?" Reforma, Enfoque (Sunday magazine), 2012 (in Spanish).
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"Could the PRI have bought its electoral result in the 2012 Mexican election?" in The Monkey Cage, 2012.
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"No Choice," interview in Esquire Magazine, Russia, 2011 (in Russian).
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"What's the Big Idea? If you're going to rig an election, cheat big," The Washington Post, Sunday Outlook, 2009.
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