Publications


Sweetening the Deal: Markets, Institutional Strength and Land Redistribution in South Africa's Sugar Sector

Forthcoming in Comparative Politics (2024)


Electoral Violence, Youth Party Activists and Police in Liberia. Journal of Peace Research. 2024.

With Sabrina Karim, Lindsey Pruett and Dao Freeman


Field Experiments in the Global South: Assessing Risks, Localizing Benefits, and Addressing Positionality. PS: Political Science and Politics. 2022.

(With Biz Herman, Amma Panin, Elizabeth Wellman, Graeme Blair, Lindsey Pruett, Ken Opalo, Hannah Alarian, Allison Grossman, Yvonne Tan and Nicholas Owsley.)


Patronage or Policy? The Politics of Land Formalization in Kenya. World Development. 2021.

What are the determinants of policy-based land titling programs in Kenya? When do governments look to create political dependency through clientelism or to undertake policy-based, development goals? I try to answer these questions using original data from Kenya’s Ministry of Lands and National Titling Centre on land formalisation and redistribution programs from the colonial era to the present day.


The Rift Valley: The Struggle for Supremacy. In Cheeseman, N., Lynch, G. and Karuti, K. Eds. The Oxford Handbook on Kenyan Politics. Oxford University Press. Oxford.  2020.



Decentralisation: Accountability in Subnational Government. In Cheeseman, N. Ed. Institutions and Democracy in Africa: How the Rules of the Game Shape Political Developments. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 2018.