Published Peer-Reviewed Work

• ​2022. Attitudes and Action in International Refugee Policy: Evidence from Australia. International Organization. DOI 10.1017/ S0020818322000133. ​With Jill Sheppard.
  • Conversation piece.
• 2021. Democracy, Autocracy, and Everything in Between: How Domestic Institutions Shape Environmental Protection. British Journal of Political Science. DOI 10.1017/S000712342000054X.
• 2020. Automaticity and Delegation in Climate Targets. Environmental Research Letters. DOI 1088/1748-9326. ​With Dave Frame.
• 2018. Exploring the Universe of UN Human Rights Agreements. Journal of Conflict Resolution. DOI 10.1177/0022002717721395. 
• 2017. Compliance with International Law. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. DOI 10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626. 013.55.
• ​2016. Making Promises, Keeping Promises: Democracy, Ratification, and Compliance in International Human Rights Law. British Journal of Political Science. DOI 10.1017/ S0007123414000489. 
  • Washington Post Monkey Cage piece.
• 2013. The Engines of Compliance. 2013. In Jeffrey Dunoff and Mark Pollack, Synthesizing Insights from International Law and International Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/ CBO9781139107310.024. 
  • Opinio Juris ​IR/IL Symposium: The Engines of Compliance.
• 2010. International Law: Understanding Compliance and Enforcement. 2010. In Robert Denemark, International Studies Compendium. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
• 2009. The Pieces of Peacemaking: Understanding Implementation of Civil War Settlements. 2009. Civil Wars. DOI 10.1080/ 13698240903157529. With Shanna Kirschner.
• 2008. The International Law and Politics of Climate Change: Ratification of the United Nations Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol. 2008. The Journal of Conflict Resolution. DOI 10.1177/0022002707313692.
• 2008. International Organizations Count: What Statistics Tells Us About IOs. Journal of Conflict Resolution. DOI 10.1177/ 0022002707313687.
  • Guest-edited special issue. With Erik Gartzke and Emilie Hafner-Burton.
  • Introductory article. With Erik Gartzke and Emilie Hafner-Burton.
• 2005. Do Treaties Constrain or Screen? Selection Bias and Treaty Compliance. 2005. American Political Science Review, 99 (4): 611-22

Research in Progress

1. International Law and Domestic Politics

• The Autocratic Politics of International Human Rights Law (book manuscript).
• Four Tales of International Law: How Appealing to Legality and Rights Affect Perceptions of Refugee Detention in Australia, the US, and the UK (email for latest version). Presented at the annual meeting of the Asian Political Methodology Conference, 2023.
• Tradeoffs in Trade: How Labor, Environmental and Human Rights Provisions Affect Attitudes toward International Trade Agreements (email for latest version). Presented at the 2025 annual conference of the American Political Science Association.
• Diaspora Institutions and the Global Adoption of Bilateral Labor Migration Agreements (email for latest version). With Alan Gamlen.
• Democratic Backsliding and Compliance with International Human Rights Law. 

    2. Courts, Gender, and Judicial Legitimacy

• Gender Diversity and Judicial Legitimacy: Evidence from a US Survey Experiment ​(email for latest version). With Mirya Holman and Zoë Robinson.
• ‘I Don’t See Gender’: An Analysis of Judge Diversity and Perceptions of the Court (email for latest version). With Mirya Holman and Zoë Robinson.
• Gender Bias in the Family Court: A Cross-National Study of Relocation Decisions in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and England and Wales. Data analysis for two countries available.

  3. Public Attitudes Toward Refugees and Migration

• Convergence or Backlash? A Longitudinal Study of Twitter Posts and Attitudes Toward Refugees (email for latest version). With Michael Kumove. Presented at the annual conference of the Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science, 2024.
• Is there Really A ‘Consensus’ on Refugees? Evidence from an Eight-Country Survey of the Americas (email for latest version). With Michael Kumove. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science, 2024.

Policy Writing, Reviews, etc.

• 2019. My Second and Third Daughters Exist Because Abortion Was Legal and Safe. Washington Post, May 28.
• 2016. Not Just Another Book on the Philosophy and Methods of Political Science. Australian Journal of Political Science. (Invited book review).
• 2015. American Foreign Policy with Hillary at the Helm. The Policy Space (invited contribution to Australian policy blog).
• 2015. Do-Gooder Human Rights Politics: How Does New Zealand Measure Up? (New Zealand foreign policy blog).
• 2013. When Bad things Happen to Untenured People. 2013. Chronicle of Higher Education.