. Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond. Cambridge University Press Elements series on Politics and Society in East Asia, 2024.

Recent Articles

More Publications

. Brothers in Arms No Longer: Who Do Regime Change Coup-Entry Dictators Purge?. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2023.

Dataset Source Document

. All Peacekeeping is Local: Measuring Subnational Variation in Peacekeeping Effectiveness. International Studies Quarterly, 2022.

Dataset Source Document

. Rethinking Democratic Diffusion: Bringing Regime Type Back In. Comparative Political Studies, 2020.

Dataset Source Document

Selected Projects

Purges: How Dictators Fight to Survive (book manuscript)

“The Effects of Blame Shifting Strategies Following Large-scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey” (with Jonas Willibald Schmid and Fulya Apaydin)

“The Varieties of Autocratic Regular Leadership Transitions and Leader Duration” (with Austin S. Matthews and Peter Ward)

“Rules to Live (and Die) By: Introducting the Global Succession Rules Dataset” (with Anne Meng)

“The Autocratic Job Market: Succession and Popular Approval in Uganda” (with Rebecca Tapscott)

Teaching Autocracy and Autocratic Politics (editor for book manuscript) - under contract with Edward Elgar Publishing

Teaching

Graduate
Asia Pacific: Zone of Conflict or Peace? | Melbourne | Spring 2024, Spring 2025
Comparative Institutions and Public Policy | York | Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
Spatial Interdependence in Theory and Practice (lab instructor) | IPSA-USP | Spring 2018

Undergraduate
Autocratic Politics | Melbourne | Spring 2025
Comparative Politics | Melbourne | Fall 2024, Fall 2025
Empirical Research Design | York | Fall 2023
Political Enquiry | York | Spring 2022
Introduction to Democratic Politics | York | Fall 2021, Fall 2022
Comparative Political Systems | Mizzou | Spring 2019