Publications 

 

Tax Me If You Can: Ethnic Geography, Democracy, and the Taxation of Agriculture in Africa. 2007.  American Political Science Review 101(1), 159--172.

 

Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War Onset.  with James Fearon and David Laitin. 2007. American Political Science Review 101(1), 187--193.

 

Separate and Suspicious: The Social Environment and Inter-Ethnic Trust in Kenya.  Forthcoming.  The Journal of Politics

 

Working Papers

 

When do the Rich Vote Less than the Poor and Why? Explaining Turnout Inequality across the World with Pavithra Suryanarayan 

 

Local Segregation and Violence

 

Electoral Geography and Conflict: Examining the Redistricting through Violence in Kenya

 

Colonial Legacies and  Ethnic Mobilization in Rwanda and Burundi in the 1950s

 

Works in Progress

 

Ethnic Beachheads and Vote Buying: The Creation of New Administrative Districts in Kenya, 1992-2001''

 

A Prize too Large to Share: Opposition Coalitions and the Kenyan Presidency''

 

Teaching

 

Graduate 

Democracy, Autocracy, and Regime Change

Comparative Democratic Processes

Issues in Comparative Politics

 

Undergraduate

Contemporary African Politics 

Introduction to Comparative Politics  

Democratization and Regime Change in Developing Countries  

Religion and Politics  

Agrarian Politics in sub-Saharan Africa