Publications

‘From Low-Cost Flights to the Ballot Box: How Eastern European Migration Shaped Far-Right Voting in London’, Journal of Politics 85:4 (2023): 1214-1228 [with Elena Pupaza]. [journal]

‘Audits for Accountability: Evidence from Municipal By-Elections in South Africa’, Journal of Politics 48:3 (2022): 1581-1594 [with Daniel Berliner]. [SocArXiv] [journal] [blog] [blog]. Media citation: LiveMint (India).

‘Cabinet Size and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa’, Governance 35:1 (2022): 123-141 [with Linnea Mills]. [journal] [paper]. Media citation: The Mast (Zambia).

‘When Do You Get Economists as Policy Makers?’, British Journal of Political Science 50:3 (2020): 1193-1205 [with Mark Hallerberg]. [journal]. Media citations of the project: Economist (UK), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany), Guardian (UK), Kathimerini (Greece), la Repubblica (Italy), La Vanguardia (Spain), LiveMint (India), TheCable (Nigeria), Wall Street Journal (US), Washington Post (US).

‘The Impacts of Fiscal Openness’, World Bank Research Observer 32:2 (2017): 185-210 [with Paolo de Renzio]. [journal] [paper] [blog]

‘A Better Life for All? Democratization and Electrification in Post-Apartheid South Africa’, Journal of Politics 78:3 (2016): 774-791 [with Verena Kroth and Valentino Larcinese]. [journal] [paper]. Media citation: finweek (South Africa).

‘It Isn’t Just About Greece: Domestic Politics, Transparency, and Fiscal Gimmickry in Europe’, British Journal of Political Science 44:4 (2014): 707-716 [featured article, with James Alt and David Dreyer Lassen]. A short version appeared in Public Finance International. [journal] [paper] [short]. Media citation: Irish Times.

‘Electoral Budget Cycles in Legislatures’, Legislative Studies Quarterly 38:4 (2013): 545-570. [journal]

‘Citizens, Legislators, and Executive Disclosure: The Political Determinants of Fiscal Transparency’, World Development 41 (2013): 96-108 [with Paolo de Renzio]. [journal]

Legislatures and the Budget Process: The Myth of Fiscal Control. London, Palgrave Macmillan (2010). [book]. Reviewed by Richard Allen in Governance [review], Ian Lienert on the IMF PFM blog [review], and Rick Stapenhurst in the Journal of Legislative Studies [review]. Cited in the OECD Best Practices for Parliaments in Budgeting (2023) as among the “seminal pieces that helped inform this work”. [citation]

‘Cabinet Structure and Fiscal Policy Outcomes’, European Journal of Political Research 49:5 (2010): 631-653. [journal]

‘Institutional Constraints on Profligate Politicians: The Conditional Effect of Partisan Fragmentation on Budget Deficits’, Comparative Political Studies 43:2 (2010): 208-229. [journal]

‘Budget Reform and Legislative Control in Sweden’, Journal of European Public Policy 14:2 (2007): 313-332. [journal]

‘Assessing the Power of the Purse: An Index of Legislative Budget Institutions’, Political Studies 54:4 (2006): 767-785. [journal] [chapter] [spanish]. Media citations: Mail & Guardian (South Africa), Globe and Mail (Canada). Kaare Strøm and Shane Martin published a comprehensive update of my index for a wider set of countries in their 2023 book on legislative assemblies. [citation]

For more publication details, including earlier work and book chapters, see my CV here and my ORCID profile here. The LSE Research Online database provides free access to the final manuscript versions of many of my publications here. If there is a paper you cannot access, please contact me.