Research articles

“Experts, coders, and crowds: An analysis of substitutability.” With Daniel Pemstein, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Brigitte Seim, et al. 2024. International Political Science Review. Online First.

“Conceptual and measurement issues in assessing democratic backsliding.” With Carl Henrik Knutsen, Brigitte Seim, Michael Coppedge, et al. 2024. PS: Political Science & Politics. 57(2):162-177. Replication data.

“Endogenous popularity: How perceptions of support affect the popularity of authoritarian regimes.” With Noah Buckley, Ora John Reuter and Katerina Tertytchnaya. 2024. American Political Science Review. 118(2):1046-1052. Replication data.

“Is Putin’s popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes.” With Timothy Frye, Scott Gehlbach and Ora John Reuter. 2023. Post-Soviet Affairs. 39(3):213-222. Replication data.

“Estimating latent traits from expert surveys: An analysis of sensitivity to data generating process.” With Daniel Pemstein. 2023. Political Science Research and Methods. 11(2):384-393. Replication data.

“Language, ethnicity and separatism: Survey results from two post-Soviet regions.” 2022. British Journal of Political Science. 52(4):1831-1851. Replication data.

“How and how much does expert error matter in expert-coded data? Implications for quantitative peace research.” 2020. Journal of Peace Research. 57(6):692-700. Online appendix and abbreviated replication data.

“Constraining governments: New indices of vertical, horizontal and diagonal accountability.” With Anna Lührmann and Valeriya Mechkova. 2020. American Political Science Review. 114(3):881-820. Replication data.

“What makes experts reliable? Expert reliability and the estimation of latent traits.” With Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim and Yi-ting Wang. 2019. Research & Politics. 6(4):1-8. Replication data.

“Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political institutions in the long 19th century.” With Carl Henrik Knutsen, Jan Teorell, Tore Wig, et al. 2019. Journal of Peace Research. 56(3):440-451.

“IRT models for expert-coded panel data.” With Daniel Pemstein. 2018. Political Analysis. 26(4):431-456. Replication data.

“Identity, social mobility and ethnic mobilization: Language and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.” 2018. Comparative Political Studies. 51(7):831-867. Replication data.

“Xenophobia on the rise? Temporal and regional trends in xenophobic attitudes in Russia.” With Hannah S. Chapman, Yoshiko M. Herrera and Theodore Gerber. 2018. Comparative Politics. 50(3):381-394. Online appendix and replication data.

“Is Putin’s popularity real?” With Timothy Frye, Scott Gehlbach and Ora John Reuter. Post-Soviet Affairs. 33(1):1-15. Lead article. Replication data.

“Ethnicity as a variable: An assessment of measures and datasets of ethnicity and related identities.” With Yoshiko M. Herrera. 2015. Social Science Quarterly. 96(3):689-716. Ethnicity dataset website.

“Stabilization and symbolism: Language and regional politics in the Chuvash Republic.” Nationalities Papers. 40(1):127-147.

“Framing language policy in post-Soviet Azerbaijan: Political symbolism and interethnic harmony.” 2011. Central Asian Survey. 30(2):181-196. Lead article.