“Profiting from Prestige: The Political Economy of Mega-Events in Azerbaijan,” Journal of International Relations and Development, 2025.
“Process Tracing and the Problem of Missing Data,” (with Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos), Sociological Methods and Research, 2021.
“Foreign versus Domestic Bribery: Explaining Repression in Kleptocratic Regimes,” Comparative Politics, 2017.
“Hidden in Plain Sight: Political Opposition and Hegemonic Authoritarianism in Azerbaijan,” Post-Soviet Affairs, 2015.
“Confronting a Crisis of Research Design,” PS: Political Science & Politics, 2014.
“Putting Typologies to Work: Concept-Formation, Measurement, and Analytic Rigor" (with David Collier and Jason Seawright), Political Research Quarterly, 2014.
“What is the Leninist Legacy? Assessing Twenty Years of Scholarship” (with Danielle Lussier), Slavic Review, 2011.
“Preparing a Causal Research Design,” in Jennifer Cyr and Sara Wallace Goodman, eds., Doing Good Qualitative Research, 2024.
“Russia’s Super-presidency," in Susanne Wengle, ed., Russian Politics Today, 2022.
“Leninist Extinction? Critical Junctures, Legacies, and the Study of Post-Communism” (with Danielle Lussier), in David Coller and Gerardo L. Munck, eds., Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies, 2022.
“Political Executives in Autocracies and Hybrid Regimes,” in Rudy Andeweg et al, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives, 2020.
“Semi-presidentialism in Azerbaijan,” in Robert Elgie and Sophie Moestrup, eds., Semi-presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia, 2016.
“Typologies: Forming Concepts and Creating Categorical Variables” (with David Collier and Jason Seawright) in The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology, 2008
Varieties of Kleptocracy: Corruption and Politics in Post-Soviet Eurasia. Book manuscript.
“Power from the People? How Autocrats Use Referendums to Generate Support for Unpopular Policies” (with Ben Noble).
“Ethics for Whom? Decolonizing Research Ethics Review in Eurasian Studies” (with Marnie Howlett and Matteo Bonini).
“The Concept of Legacies” (with Danielle Lussier) in Chaisty and Whitefield, eds., Elgar Handbook on Postcommunist Politics
“Authoritarian Referendums,” (with Ben Noble) in Anne Wolf, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics
“The Land of Fire: Leveraging Power, Sport Sponsorship and Mega-event Hosting in Azerbaijan,” (with Joel Rookwood and Ekain Rojo-Labaien), in Grix, Reiche and Brannagan, eds., Routledge Handbook of Sport and Soft Power.
"Azerbaijan’s Climate Leadership Challenge" (with Ruth Townend, Laurence Broers, Arzu Geybulla, Glada Lahn, James Nixey, and Ľubica Polláková) Chatham House Research Paper, 2024.
“Baku’s Balancing Act: Azerbaijan Between Green Energy and Oil Rents,” Carnegie Europe, 2024.