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Ethnic Violence and Separatist Conflict
Separatist Conflict In the Former Soviet Union and Beyond: How Different Was Communism
?
World Politics
65, 2 (April 2013), 350-81. Replication data and other materials archived at my Dataverse page.
Explaining Anti-Chinese Violence in Late 20th Century Indonesia
(with Rizal Panggabean),
World Development
39, 2: 231-42
Regime Change and the State
Economic Origins of Democratic Breakdown? The Redistributive Model and the Post-Colonial State
(with Dan Slater and Gautam Nair),
Perspectives on Politics
12, 2: June 2014, 353-74. Replication data and other files archived at
my Dataverse page
.
Rethinking the Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: The Continuing Value of Cases and Comparisons
,
APSA-CP
(Winter 2008), 16-21
Life of the Party: The Origins of Regime Breakdown and Persistence Under Single-Party Rule
World Politics
57, 3 (April 2005). Replication data and other files archived at
my Dataverse page
.
"
Conclusion
," in Adam White ed.
The Everyday Life of the State
, University of Washington Press (2013), 205-18.
Research Methods
Analyzing Natural Experiments: A Comparative Historical Approach
Comparing Separatism Across Regions:
Rebellious Legacies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
The Politics of Resource Wealth
Survivorship Bias in Comparative Politics: Endogenous Sovereignty and the Resource Curse
, with David Waldner.
Exploring the Resource-Civil War Nexus
. In Sara Mitchell and T. David Mason eds.
What do We Know About Civil War
?
Forthcoming at Rowman-Littlefield.
Resource Wealth as Rent Leverage: Rethinking the Oil-Stability Nexus
.
Conflict Management and Peace Science
. 34, 6: 597-617. Replication data, appendices and replication files archived on
my Dataverse page.
Rentier States and State Transformations
, with David Waldner. In Stephan Leibfried, Frank Nullmeier, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah Levy, John Stephens eds.,
The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State
, Oxford University Press, 2015.
Review of
Wars of Plunder
,
Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War
and
T
he Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for t
he World’s Last Resources
. In
Perspectives on Politics
December 2013
.
Resource Wealth and Political Regimes: How Solid a Link After 40 Years of Research?
,
APSA-CD
11, 2 (June 2013), 2, 17-20. (
references
)
Oil and Political Power in Southeast Asia
, in Robert Looney ed.
Handbook of Oil Politics
, Routledge 2012. Replication data and other files archived at
my Dataverse page.
The New Petromercantilism: Oil, Development and the State in the 21st Century
Doha Discussion Paper, Brookings Institution
Oil Wealth and Regime Survival in the Developing World, 1960-1999
American Journal of Political Science
(April 2004): 232-46.
The Wrong Kind of Crisis: Why Oil Booms and Busts Rarely Lead to Authoritarian Breakdown
Studies in Comparative International Development
(Winter 2006)
Iran and Indonesia
Collective Action With and Without Islam: Mobilizing the Bazaar in Ira
n
, in Quintan Wiktorowicz
Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach
(Indiana University Press, 2003)
The Origins of Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: Experts and the Marketing of Political Interest
s
,
Journal of East Asian Studies
8, 2: 211-34.