Peer-reviewed publications

Purging the pulpit: the logic of religious elite removals in the Glorious Revolution. 2024. Journal of Historical Political Economy.

Indirect rule and mass threat: Two paths to direct rule. 2023. Journal of Theoretical Politics.

Social Elites, Popular Discontent, and the Limits of Cooptation. 2022. Public Choice.

Feuding, arbitration, and the emergence of an independent judiciary (with Georg Vanberg). 2021. Constitutional Political Economy.

Working papers

Delegation as Persuasion: Loyalty, Endogenous Authority, and Compliance. [draft]

The Cost of Cooptation: Religion, Institutional Change, and Contestation in the Scottish Highland Clearances. Under review. [draft]

‘Judge righteously:’ Partiality, compliance, and the evolution of judicial institutions (with Georg Vanberg). [draft available upon request]

Religion, economic grievance, and the limits of reform: Evidence from the Irish Tithe War [draft]

Loyalty as liability: political competition and strategic deterrence in weak states [draft]

Works-in-progress

The Evolution of Patronage Institutions Over Five Centuries (with Adriane Fresh).

The political economy of splendor: conspicuous consumption and political competition