Research

Publications

1. How Civil Society Defeated Orbán. 2026. Journal of Democracy.

2. 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.

Working Papers

1. Economic Retaliation and the Decline of Opposition Quality.
   • Best Paper Award, APSA European Politics & Society Section (2026)
   • Honorable Mention for Sage Best Paper Award, APSA Comparative Politics Section (2026)
   • Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award, APSA Democracy & Autocracy Section (2026)
   • John Sullivan Award for best paper by a graduate student, APSA Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section (2026)
   • Honorable Mention for APSG Best Paper Award, Authoritarian Political Systems Group (2026)

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

3. Media Capture and Opposition Delegitimization in Democratic Decline.

4. How Should Mainstream Parties Campaign Against Undemocratic Leaders?

5. Local Government as Shelter for the Opposition: Evidence from Hungary and Poland. With Anna Grzymala-Busse (Stanford University).

6. Democratic Restoration and Its Tradeoffs: Evidence from Five Cases of Democratic Backsliding. With Frances Cayton (Cornell University).

Works in Progress

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

2. 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)

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