Research

Below are journal articles with replication data and presented versions of on-going projects if available. Please see my CV for a complete list of publications. My Google Scholar profile can be found here.

Journal Articles

• Delegating Discipline: How Indexes Restructured the Political Economy of Sovereign Bond Markets (Journal of Politics 2023, with Natalya Naqvi)
  • Highlights the theoretical and empirical importance of major bond indexes for the political economy of sovereign debt in developing countries.
  • Replication data forthcoming.
• Chinese or Western Finance? Transparency, Official Credit Flows, and the International Political Economy of Development (Review of International Organizations 2023)
  • Identifies borrower transparency as a significant driver of official Chinese credit flows vis-a-vis official Western credit flows.
  • Replication data here.
• Partisan External Borrowing in Middle Income Countries (British Journal of Political Science 2022)
  • Finds political partisanship informs annual external borrowing decisions by MIC governments.
  • Replication data here.
• Democracy, Public Debt Transparency, and Sovereign Creditworthiness (Governance 2023)
  • Shows transparent public debt management improves credit ratings and does not depend on democratic governance, with implications for the “Democratic Advantage” thesis.
  • Replication data here.
• Power, Ideas, and World Bank Conditionality (Review of International Organizations 2022, with Mark Manger)
  • Quantitative text analysis of the policy topics covered in World Bank loans from 1985-2014, linking shifts in conditionality to internal research priorities at the World Bank.
  • For the publicly available loan conditions used in this article, see here.
  • Other replication materials here.
• Interests over Institutions: Political-Economic Constraints on Public Debt Management in Developing Countries (Governance 2021)
  • Traces the sovereign borrowing process and identifies major political constraints developing country Debt Management Offices face in managing key areas of public debt.
• Issue Proximity and Policy Response in Local Governments (Review of Policy Research 2018, with Sara Hughes and Dan Runfola)
  • Argues issue proximity shapes policy attention in local governments.
• Analyzing if and how international organizations contribute to the sustainable development goals: Combining power and behavior (Journal of Organizational Behavior 2018)
  • Considers benefits of combining organizational behavior with IPE in the study of international organizations.
• Empowered Borrowers? tracking the World Bank’s Program-for-Results (Third World Quarterly 2016)
  • Outlines the implications a new World Bank lending instrument may have for the IPE of development lending.