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Peer-reviewed Articles
Conditionally accepted. “Gender Stereotypes in Electoral Autocracies: Experimental Evidence from Morocco.” Journal of Politics (with Carolyn Barnett and Marwa Shalaby). Conditionally accepted registered report.
2024. “What Men Want: Politicians' Strategic Engagement with Gender Quotas.” Comparative Political Studies (with Aytug Sasmaz and Julia Clark) doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241252073 [pdf] [online appendix]
2022. “Exposure to State Violence and Substance Use.” Research & Politics (with Elizabeth Nugent and Sarah Kammourh) doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/20531680221136088 [pdf] [online appendix]
2022. “Did Egypt’s Post-Uprising Crime Wave Increase Support for Authoritarian Rule?” Journal of Peace Research (with Caroline Abadeer, Lisa Blaydes, and Scott Williamson) doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433211052374 [pdf]
2021. “Gender Stereotypes, Political Leadership, and Voting Behavior in Tunisia.” Political Behavior 43: 1037-1066 (with Marlette Jackson) doi: 10.1007/s11109-019-09582-5 [pdf] [data] [TAFRA summary in French & Arabic]
2018. “Religion and Foreign Aid." Politics & Religion 11(3): 522-552. doi: 10.1017/S1755048318000093 [pdf] [online appendix]
2018. "Voting in Transition: Participation and Alienation in Egypt’s 2012 Presidential Election." Middle East Law & Governance 10(1): 25-58. (with Caroline Abadeer and Scott Williamson) doi: 10.1163/18763375-01001001 [pdf] [data]
Book Chapters
Forthcoming. “Local Political Priorities during Tunisia’s First Democratic Municipal Elections.” In Kristen Kao and Ellen Lust (Eds.), Decentralization, Local Governance, and Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa. (with Aytug Sasmaz and Julia Clark). [Program on Governance and Local Development working paper 42]
2022. “What Can Tunisia’s Past Tell us About its Future: Critical Junctures and Political Trends.” In Mohamed Zayani (Ed.), A Fledgling Democracy: Tunisia in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings.
Working Papers
“Ideological Responses to Settler Colonialism: Political Identities in Post-Independence Tunisia.”
“Political Socialization in New Democracies: Legacies of Repression and Pre-Democratic Partisanship.” (with Nicholas Lotito, Elizabeth Nugent, and Daniel Tavana).
“Governing locally: Threat, affirmation, and responsiveness among local politicians during decentralization.” (with Chantal Berman, Julia Clark, and Aytug Sasmaz). [EGAP pre-analysis plan]
“Anti-Americanism and Foreign Aid Preferences Among Political Elites: Evidence from Tunisia.” (with Aytug Sasmaz, Renu Singh, and Scott Williamson).
Manuscripts in Progress
“Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian Voter Records.” (with Steven Brooke, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, and Oliver Lang).
“The Prospects for Drug Decriminalization and Criminal Justice Reform in Tunisia.” (with Farah Samti). [EGAP pre-analysis plan]
Null Results Reports
2022. “Does Sectarian Threat Weaken Support for Democracy in Egypt?” (with Scott Williamson). [report] [data]
Book Reviews, Policy Articles & Op-eds
“UNRWA fears are a normal trade-off in international aid. Funding must resume now.” The New Humanitarian (with Richard Clark), February 14, 2024.
“Tunisia.” In Rachel Beatty Riedl, Paul Friesen, Jennifer McCoy, Ken Roberts, and Murat Somer (Eds.), Opening Up Democratic Spaces Original Research. USAID Center for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance.” July 2023. [full USAID report]
“Tunisia’s president threatened the judicial system. What do Tunisians think about these power grabs?” The Monkey Cage on The Washington Post (with Elizabeth Nugent), February 8, 2022.
Book Review of: The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists. Democratization. Forthcoming. [pdf]
Book Review of: Finding Faith in Foreign Policy: Religion and American Diplomacy in a Postsecular World and Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human Right in the Muslim World Today. Perspectives on Politics 19(2), June 2021: 689-691. [pdf]
“Taking space seriously: the use of geographic methods in the study of MENA.” (with Lama Mourad). APSA Middle East & North Africa Politics Newsletter 4(1), Spring 2021. [pdf] [online]
“Applications of Automated Text Analysis in the Middle East and North Africa.” APSA Middle East & North Africa Politics Newsletter 2(2), Fall 2019. [pdf] [online]
“Prison reform and drug decriminalization in Tunisia.” Social Policy in the Middle East North Africa, Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Studies 31, October 2018. [pdf] [online appendix]
“One third of municipal councilors in Tunisia are from independent lists. How independent are they?” Democracy International (with Julia Clark and Aytug Sasmaz), July 2018. [English] [Arabic]
“Generational divide in Tunisia's 2018 municipal elections: Are youth candidates different?” Democracy International (with Julia Clark and Aytug Sasmaz), July 2018. [English] [Arabic]
“List fillers or future leaders? Female candidates in Tunisia's 2018 municipal elections.” Democracy International (with Julia Clark and Aytug Sasmaz), July 2018. [English] [Arabic]
“Introducing the Tunisian local election candidate survey (LECS): A new approach to studying local governance.” Democracy International (with Julia Clark and Aytug Sasmaz), July 2018. [English] [Arabic]
“Is marijuana decriminalization possible in the Middle East?” The Monkey Cage on The Washington Post (with Farah Samti), April 20, 2018.