Working Papers

National Security Policy Diffusion

In this project I use event history analysis to track four national security policies diffusing from the United States through the G20 countries based on a novel index of kinship I developed using latent space modeling.

Intelligence Reform in the U.S.: How 9/11 made way for long overdue change

In this paper I use text analysis to argue that the attacks of 9/11 highlighted the inadequacy of the U.S. national security system to deal with terrorism, and with attention finally focused on the issue it was easier to pass reforms in Congress.

The Effect of Niche Parties on Policy Making: How the rise of niche parties affects policy attention and outcomes

I use a quasibinomial logit model to determine if there is a causal relationship between the success of single issue parties - measured by their vote share - and a shift to the policy issues these parties promote - measured in parliamentary attention to said policies.

Institutional Responsiveness to Public Preferences: an examination of the Brazilian democratic period

Co-authored with Connor Dye and Dr. Felipe Brasil

In this project we analyze how different legislative channels react to changes in public opinion in Brazil, and find that whenever institutional friction is smaller the legislative response is quicker.

Published Research

Does Partisanship Explain Spending Patterns in Congressional Bill Proposals?

Party Politics (2020), Co-authored with Dr. Derek Epp and Katherine Madel

For this article we collected and coded a new dataset of Congressional Budget Office reports and found that there is no significant effect of partisanship on bill’s proposed costs.

Foreign Policy and National Security in Contemporary Brazil: Cultural and Institutional Challenges

Conjuntura Austral (2015)

In this qualitative article I process trace the development of the Ministry of Defense and of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to analyze how institutions and political culture hamper coordination between foreign and defense policy.