Research

 

Publications


”Longer trips to court cause evictions.” (with David A. Hoffman). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120.2 (2023). (Download)

"An improved method of automated nonparametric content analysis for social science." (with Connor T. Jerzak and Gary King). Political Analysis 31.1 (2023): 42-58.

"Sovereignty, Substance, and Public Support for European Courts’ Human Rights Rulings." (with Mikael Madsen, Juan Mayoral and Erik Voeten). American Political Science Review 116.2 (2022): 419-438

"Leases as forms." (with David A, Hoffman) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 19.1 (2022): 90-134. (Download).

"International investment disputes, media coverage, and backlash against international law." (with Ryan Brutger) Journal of Conflict Resolution 66.6 (2022): 983-1009. (Download)

“Telescope matching for reducing model dependence in the estimation of the effects of time‐varying treatments: An application to negative advertising.” (with Matthew Blackwell) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society). (2022)

Testing for Negative Spillovers: Is Promoting Human Rights Really Part of the ‘Problem’?'' (with Judith Kelley and Beth A. Simmons) International Organization 75.1 (2021): 71-102. (Download) (Appendix)

"Rulers or Rules? International Law, Elite Cues and Public Opinion." (with Beth A. Simmons and Matthew D. Kim) European Journal of International Law 30.4 (2019): 1281-1302. (Download) (Appendix)

"Court Performance within the Multilateral Trade Regime" (with Cosette D. Creamer). 2018.  In T. Squatrito, O. Young, A. Follesdal, & G. Ulfstein (Eds.). The Performance of International Courts and Tribunals (39-76). Cambridge University Press. 

"Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys." (with Ariel White, Christopher Lucas, Dominika Kruszewska and Connor Huff). 2018. Journal of Experimental Political Science. 5(1). 1-12.  (Download)

Estimating Dynamic State Preferences from United Nations Voting Data” (with Michael A. Bailey and Erik Voeten). 2017. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 61(2): 430-456. 

“Affiliation Bias in Arbitration: An Experimental Approach.” (with Sergio Puig). 2017. The Journal of Legal Studies, 46(2), 371-398.  (Download) (Replication Data)

“The David Effect and ISDS” (with Sergio Puig). 2017. European Journal of International Law. 28(3), 731-761.  (Download) (Replication Data)

“Human Rights and Human Welfare: Looking for a Dark Side to International Human Rights Law” (with Beth A. Simmons). 2017. In J. Snyder, L. Vinjamuri, & S. Hopgood (Eds.) Human Rights Futures. (60-87). Cambridge University Press. 

“boocio: An Education System with Hierarchical Concept Maps and Dynamic Nonlinear Learning Plans. (with Michail Schwab, Hendrik Strobelt, James Tompkin, Colin Fredericks, Connor Huff, Dana Higgins, Mayya Komisarchik, Gary King, and Hanspeter Pfister). 2017. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 23(1): 571-580.