Targeted Protest and Affective Polarization (Under Review)
I use the cross-national survey data to test whether protests targeting the ruling party increase the level of mass polarization among electoral democracies.
Aug 7, 2025
Crisis of Democracy?: Targeted Protest and Affective Polarization
It systematically examines the consequences of protests on the stability of democracy..
Aug 7, 2025
Protest and State Policy Agendas: Marches and Gun Policy After Parkland
We test the effect of protests on governmental action at the regional or local level.
Feb 25, 2022
Resistance to Populism
Populist leaders mobilize supporters to accomplish the political transformations they seek to achieve. However, once they are in office, populist leaders also encounter mobilizations against them because of their exclusionary rhetoric as well as their attack on existing democratic norms.
Feb 18, 2022
Elite Coordination and Popular Protest: The Joint Effect on Democratic Change
We argue that the effect of vertical threats is contingent on the existence of lateral threats. Popular mobilization is more likely to promote democratic change if a unified opposition translates popular grievances to democratic demands.
Aug 4, 2019