Research

1 

Information technology and politics

• The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution

  • American Journal of Political Science (2025) [link to article]

• Mobile internet and the quality of elections in low-income democracies

  • ​British Journal of Political Science (2025) [link to article]

• Does public broadcasting increase voter turnout? Evidence from the rollout of BBC radio in 1920s England

  • ​​Electoral Studies (2021) [link to article]

• Digitalisation and traditional authority in Africa

2

Taxation and the social contract

• Migration, remittances, and petty corruption in Africa (with D. Doyle)

  • International Studies Quarterly (2026) [link to paper]​

• Mobile money and the social contract: Experimental evidence from Ghana (with D.Doyle)

  • World Development (2026) [link to paper]​​​

• Understanding public support for digital taxation in Africa

  • UNU-WIDER Working Paper​ (2025) [link to paper]

• How aid cuts shape citizens' demands on the government: Evidence from halting USAID funding (with R. Jablonski and B. Seim)

• NGO preferences over donor policy after the closure of USAID (with R. Jablonski and J. Tobin)

• Why materially insecure voters don’t want redistribution (with J. Green)

3

Accountability in comparative perspective

•  Protests and incumbent support: Evidence from a natural experiment in Ghana (with D. Doyle)

  • ​Comparative Political Studies (2025) [link to article]

• Social projection and political behaviour in low-information environments (with J. Ahlbäck)

  • European Journal of Political Research (2026) [link to article]​

• Using movers to identify close election effects

  • European Journal of Political Research (2025) [link to article]

• Partisanship, attribution and approval in a public health shock (with J. Maxia)

  • ​Electoral Studies (2023)  [link to article]