Refereed Articles
"Repression Reconsidered: Bystander Effects and Legitimation in Authoritarian Regimes," Comparative Politics, forthcoming. [Preprint]
"Social Revolution and Authoritarian Durability," World Politics, 72:4, 2020. With Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Adam Casey. [Article] [Appendix] [Replication]
"No Easy Way Out: The Effect of Military Coups on State Repression," Journal of Politics, 82:4, 2020. [Article] [Appendix] [Replication]
Book Manuscript
Rules of Repression: Military Regimes, Coercion, and Autocratic Survival
Work in progress
“When is Repression Popular?” Working paper.
"Warriors and Rulers: Civil-Military Relations and Political Regimes." With Adam E. Casey and Dan Slater. Working paper.
"Worth the Sacrifice? Illiberal and Authoritarian Practices during Covid-19," with Seraphine Maerz, Anna Lührmann, and Amanda B. Edgell," Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 110, September 2020. Link
“Electoral Violence and Insurgency under Colonial Rule,” working paper.
“Pathways to Democracy after Authoritarian Breakdown Comparative case selection and lessons from the past,” with Anna Lührmann and Sebastian Hellmeier, working paper.
Book Chapters
"Repression of Islamists and Authoritarian Survival in the Arab World: A Case Study of Egypt" In The Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies. Eds. Melani Cammett and Pauline Jones. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021.
“Puissance et vulnérabilité de l’appareil sécuritaire égyptien.” In Soulèvements populaires et recompositions politiques dans le Monde arabe. Eds. Frédéric Vairel and Michel Camau. Montréal, Canada: University of Montreal Press, 2014.
Other Publications
"Democracy Report 2021. Autocratization Turns Viral," V-Dem, 2021. With Nazifa Alizada, Rowan Cole, Lisa Gastaldi, Sandra Grahn, Sebastian Hellmeier, Palina Kolvani, Anna Lührmann, Seraphine F. Maerz, Shreeya Pillai, and Staffan I. Lindberg.
"Pandemic Backsliding: Democracy Nine Month into the Covid-19 Pandemic," V-Dem Policy Brief, No. 26, December 2020. With Palina Kolvani, Shreeya Pillai, Amanda B. Edgell, Sandra Grahn, Stefanie Kaiser, and Anna Lührmann.
"An Update on Pandemic Backsliding: Democracy Four Months After the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic,'' V-Dem Policy Brief, No.24. June, 2020. With Amanda B. Edgell, Sandra Grahn, Anna Lührmann, and Seraphine Maerz.
Book Review: “Why Alliances Fail: Islamists and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa.” By Matt Buehler. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018.” Perspectives on Politics , 17:4, 1234-1235, 2019.
“Why did Egyptian security see Giulio Regeni as a threat? ” The Monkey Cage, Washington Post, March 7, 2016.
“Crisis, Coercion, and Authoritarian Durability: Explaining Diverging Responses to Anti-Regime Protest in Egypt and Iran.” With Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way. Stanford Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law CDDRL Working Paper, Vol. 127, December 2012.
“Preheating with Non-Standard Kinetic Term.” With Robert H. Brandenberger. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP). 4:20, 2009 (peer-reviewed, physics). arXiv.