Books

Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (with James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein) (Russell Sage Foundation, 2009).

Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa (Cambridge University Press, PEID Series, 2005).


Articles

"Who Benefits from Distributive Politics? How the Outcome One Studies Affects the Answer One Gets," (with Eric Kramon), Perspectives on Politics, Forthcoming.

"Political Competition and Ethnic Identification in Africa," (with Benn Eifert and Edward Miguel), American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 54, No. 2, April 2010, pp. 494-510.

"Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable? Better Institutions, Not Partition" (with James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein), Foreign Affairs, July/August 2008.

"Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?," (with James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein), American Political Science Review 101, 4 (November 2007), pp. 709-725. [experimental protocols/proctor instructions]

"Regime Change and Ethnic Cleavages in Africa," Comparative Political Studies, 40, 11 (November 2007), pp. 1302-1327.

"The Institutionalization of Political Power in Africa," (with Daniel Young), Journal of Democracy 18, 3 (July 2007), pp. 126-140.

"The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi," American Political Science Review, 98, 4 (November 2004), pp. 529-545.

"Measuring Ethnic Fractionalization in Africa," American Journal of Political Science 48, 4 (October 2004), pp. 849-863.

"The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Cleavages: The Case of Linguistic Divisions in Zambia," Comparative Politics 35, 2 (January 2003), pp. 127-146.

"Economic Conditions and Incumbent Support in Africa's New Democracies: Evidence from Zambia," (with David Simon) Comparative Political Studies 35, 3 (April 2002), pp. 313-336.

"Social Capital: Its Origins and Effects on Governmental Performance," (with Carles Boix) British Journal of Political Science 28, 4 (October 1998), pp. 686-693.

"Malawi's New Dawn," Journal of Democracy 6 (January 1995), pp. 131-145.

Book Chapters

"Coethnicity and Trust" (with James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein), in Karen Cook, Margaret Levi and Russell Hardin, eds. Whom Can We Trust? (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2009), pp. 42-64 .

"Civil Society and the Reconstruction of Failed States," in Robert Rotberg, ed., When States Fail: Causes and Consequences (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).

"A First Look at Second Elections in Africa, with Illustrations from Zambia," (with Michael Bratton) in Richard Joseph, ed., State, Conflict and Democracy in Africa (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999), pp. 377-407.

Reviews and Short Pieces

"Ethnicity and the Politics of AIDS." Review of Evan Lieberman, Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS, Perspectives on Politics 9, 4 (2011): 879-881.

"The Implications of Constructivisim for Constructing Ethnic Fractionalization Indices," (with David Laitin) APSA-CP 12 (Winter 2001).


Working Papers

"Ethnic Favoritism in Primary Education in Kenya" (with Eric Kramon), unpublished paper.

"Does Information Lead to More Active Citizenship? Evidence From an Education Information Intervention in Rural Kenya" (with Evan Lieberman and Lily Tsai), unpublished paper. (Slides)

"Missing Links in the Information-Accountability Causal Chain" (with Evan Lieberman and Lily Tsai), unpublished paper.

"Ethnic Enumerator Effects" (with Claire Adida, Karen Ferree, and Amanda Robinson), unpublished paper.

"Do Politicians Reward their Supporters? Evidence from the Spatial Allocation of Constituency Development Fund Spending in Kenya" (with Andy Harris), unpublished paper.

"Using Satellite Imagery of Night Lights to Study Patronage and Politics in Africa" (with Elizabeth Carlson and Brian Min), unpublished paper.

"African Borders as Sources of Natural Experiments: Promise and Pitfalls" (with John McCauley), unpublished paper.

"Placing and Passing: Evidence from Uganda on Ethnic Identification and Ethnic Deception" (with James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein), unpublished paper.

"Ethnic Identifiability: An Experimental Approach," (with James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein), unpublished paper.

"Social Focal Points," (with James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein), unpublished paper.

"Group Preferences or Group Strategies? Untangling the Determinants of Successful Collective Action Among Ethnic and Gender Groups," (with James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein), unpublished paper.

"Measuring Ethnic Identities and Attitudes Regarding Inter-group Relations: Methodological Pitfalls and a New Technique," unpublished memo.

"Making Social Capital Work: A Review of Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy," (with Carles Boix) Harvard University Center for International Affairs Working Paper, no. 96-4 (1996).