I am Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and Director of the Center for Global Democracy and LAPOP Lab. My research interests include comparative political behavior, political parties and partisanship, congruence and representation, legacies of political violence, and class and inequality.

I am the author of Keeping Workers Off the Ballot (with Nicholas Carnes, Princeton, under contract) and Party Brands in Crisis (Cambridge, 2016) and editor of Unequal Democracies (with Jonas Pontusson, Cambridge, 2024) and Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies (with Virginia Oliveros and Luis Schiumerini, Michigan, 2019). I am also completing a book manuscript with Leonid Peisakhin entitled, Children of Violence.

My research has appeared in American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, and World Politics, among other outlets.