Research

Working Papers

1. Economic Retaliation and the Decline of Opposition Quality. Job market paper.

2. From Anti-Authoritarian Resistance to Democratic Resilience: Legacies of Solidarity in Poland’s Backsliding Era. With Monika Nalepa (University of Chicago). Revise & Resubmit at the Journal of Politics.

3. How Should Mainstream Parties Campaign Against Undemocratic Leaders? Draft available upon request.

4. Local Government as Shelter for the Opposition: Evidence from Hungary and Poland. With Anna Grzymala-Busse (Stanford University). Draft available upon request.

Publications

1. Are Dead People Voting by Mail: Evidence from Washington State Administrative Data. 2024. Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy. With Jennifer Wu, Chenoa Yorgason, Cassandra Handan-Nader, Andrew Myers, Tobias Nowacki, Daniel M. Thompson, Jesse Yoder, and Andrew B. Hall.

Works in Progress

1. Voters’ Tradeoff Between Security and Democracy: Evidence from Five Countries in Latin America. With Beatriz Magaloni (Stanford University)

2. Media Capture and Opposition Delegitimization in Democratic Decline.

3. The Religious Drivers of Democratic Backsliding: The Evangelical Church in Brazil. With Marc Jacob (University of Notre Dame) and Adriana Pilar Ferreira Albanus (University of Notre Dame)

4. Voter Support for Rebuilding Democracy. With Frances Cayton (Cornell University)

5. Losing my Religion? How Partisan Polarization Drives or Tempers Secularization. With Sebastian Lucek (Stanford University)