Associate Professor,
Ph.D., Stanford University


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Encina Hall West, Room 312
Phone: (650) 736-1998

Research


Impact of Domestic Politics and Institutions on International Relations



Publications


Book

Democracy and Coercive Diplomacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Journal Articles

"Fighting at Home, Fighting Abroad: How Civil Wars Lead to International Disputes"
(with Kristian Gleditsch and Idean Salehyan), Journal of Conflict Resolution 52 (August 2008), pp. 479-506.

“The Politics of Risking Peace: Do Hawks or Doves Deliver the Olive Branch?” International Organization, forthcoming.

“Revealing Preferences: Empirical Estimation of a Crisis Bargaining Game with Incomplete Information” (with Jeffrey B. Lewis), Political Analysis, 11 (Fall 2003), 345-67.

“The Democratic Advantage: Institutional Foundations of Financial Power in International Competition” (with Barry R. Weingast), International Organization 57 (Winter 2003), 1-40.

“Looking for Audience Costs,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 45 (Feb. 2001), pp. 32-60.

“Do Democratic Institutions Constrain or Inform?: Contrasting Two Institutional Perspectives on Democracy and War,” International Organization 52 (Spring 1999), pp. 233-66.

“Domestic Opposition and Signaling in International Crises,” American Political Science Review 92 (Dec. 1998), pp. 829-44.

“The Politics of the Political Business Cycle,” British Journal of Political Science 25 (Jan. 1995), pp. 79-99.

Book Chapters

“Learning about Learning: A Response to Wand” (with Jeffrey B. Lewis), Political Analysis 13 (Winter 2006), pp. 121-29.

“Democracy, Learning, and Conflict Resolution,” The Waseda Journal of Political Science and Economics 359 (April 2005), pp. 35-62.

“Tying Hands and Washing Hands: The U.S. Congress and Multilateral Humanitarian Intervention,” in Daniel Drezner, ed., Locating the Proper Authorities: The Interaction of International and Domestic Institutions (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003), pp. 105-42.

“Domestic Political Competition and Transparency in International Crises: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” in Bernard I. Finel and Kristin M. Lord, eds., Power and Conflict in the Age of Transparency (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), pp. 57-82.

“Limited Governments, Powerful States” (with Barry R. Weingast), in Randolph Siverson, ed., Strategic Politicians, Institutions, and Foreign Policy (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 15-50.



Awards


  • 2003 Warren Miller Prize, Political Methodology Section, American Political Science Association (co-recipient with Jeffrey B. Lewis)
  • 2003 Karl Deutsch Award, International Studies Association
  • 2003 Teacher Appreciation Award, Pi Sigma Alpha, UCLA
  • 2001 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, Mershon Center, The Ohio State University
  • 2000-01 Arthur H. Scribner Bicentennial Preceptorship, Princeton University.
  • 1997 Helen Dwight Reid Award, American Political Science Association
  • 1995 Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award, American Political Science Association (co-recipient with Barry R. Weingast).