Articles and Chapters
2025. "Customary Courts, State Institutions, or Opting Out: Patterns of Forum Pluralism in Three African Countries." (with Patricia Funjika). World Development. Ungated Draft
2024. “Legitimising Regimes and Legalising Self-Defence Groups: the Case of Burkina Faso's VDPs.” (with Abdoul Karim Saidou). Journal of Modern African Studies, 62 (3), 269-289.
2023. “Mutual Dependence and Expectations of Cooperation.” (with Adam Harris). Journal of Politics, 85 (1). Ungated Draft.
2023. “Land and Legibility: When Do Citizens Expect Secure Property Rights in Weak States?” (with Karen E. Ferree, Ellen Lust and Melanie Phillips). American Political Science Review, 117 (1), 42-58. Non-Technical Summary ; Supplementary Materials.
2022. “The Power of the Pen: Informal Property Rights Documents in Zambia.” African Affairs, 121 (482), 81-107. Ungated Draft.
2021. “What Stymies Action on Climate Change? Religious Institutions, Marginalization, and Efficacy in Kenya.” (with Amy Erica Smith and Jaimie Bleck). Perspectives on Politics. Non-Technical Summary.
2019. “Traditional Leaders and Development in Africa.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Ungated Draft.
2019. “Elite Defection and Grassroots Democracy Under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Burkina Faso.” (with Sarah Andrews). Democratization, 26 (4), 626-644.
2017. “Selecting the State or Choosing the Chief? The Political Determinants of Smallholder Land Titling.” World Development 100, 94-107. Ungated Draft.
2016. “Immigrant Political Economies and Exclusionary Policy in Africa.” Comparative Politics, 48 (4) , 517-537. Ungated Draft.
Selected Working Papers and Works in Progress
2025. “Customary Courts, State Institutions, or Opting Out: Patterns of Forum Pluralism in Three African Countries.” (with Patricia Funjika). Governance and Local Development Institute Working Paper Series, No. 76. Available here.
2015. “The Status of Customary Land and the Future of Smallholder Farmers Under the Current Land Administration System in Zambia.” (with Brian Mulenga). Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI), Working Paper 101. Available here.