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Research

My research covers three broad themes: information technology and politics, fiscal capacity and tax morale, and voter responsiveness to shocks. 

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Most of my work studies Sub-Saharan Africa, and I have conduced in-depth fieldwork in Ghana and Malawi. I also have an interest in British politics.

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Information technology and politics

  • The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution

  • Social media and the quality of elections in low-income democracies

  • Does public broadcasting increase voter turnout? Evidence from the rollout of BBC radio in 1920s England, Electoral Studies 74 (2021)

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Fiscal capacity and tax morale

  • Understanding public support for digital taxation in Africa

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

  • Financial remittances, petty corruption, and institutional development in Africa (with David Doyle)

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Voter responsiveness to shocks

  • Partisanship, attribution and approval in a public health shock (with James Maxia), Electoral Studies 84 (2023)

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

  • Using movers to identify close election effects

  • Income shocks and support for redistribution (Review article with Jane Green and Tiphaine Le Corre)

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