Articles, Book Chapters, and Other Writings
"Emigration and Radical Right Populism." With Sirus Dehdari, David Laitin, Moritz Marbach and Kåre Vernby. Forthcoming at American Journal of Political Science.
“Differently Divisive: Sexism, Racial Resentment, and Voter Support for Candidates with Incongruent Views.” With Ryan Bell, Gabe Borelli, Dan Hopkins and Jeremy Roth. Forthcoming at Journal of Politics.
“The Financialization of Housing and its Political Consequences.” With Andreas Wiedemann. Forthcoming at American Journal of Political Science.
2024. “Liberal Democracy in an Age of Immigration.” Journal of Democracy 35(4): 63-77.
2023. "Hate crime supporters are found across age, gender, and income groups and are susceptible to violent political appeals". Proceedings of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. 120(7), e2212757120.
2022: "Hate Crimes and Gender Imbalances: Fears over Mate Competition and Violence against Refugees". With Naoki Egami, Amaney Jamal and Ramona Rischke. American Journal of Political Science 66(2): 501-515.
2021: "Competing for Loyalists? How Party Positioning Affects Populist Radical Right Voting." With Winston Chou, Naoki Egami and Amaney Jamal. Comparative Political Studies 54(12): 2226-2260.
2021: "Candidate Supply Is Not A Barrier to Immigrant Representation: A Case-Control Study." With Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Pär Nyman, and Kåre Vernby. American Journal of Political Science 65(3): 683-698.
2021: National Penalties Reversed: The Local Politics of Citizenship and Politician Responsiveness to Immigrants." With Jeyhun Alizade and Ruth Ditlmann. Journal of Politics 83(3): 867-883.
2021."Why Parties Displace their Voters: Gentrification, Coalitional Change, and the Demise of Public Housing." With Winston Chou. American Political Science Review 115(2): 429-449.
2020: "The Evolution of the Immigration Debate: Evidence from a New Dataset of Party Positions over the Last Half-Century," with Yotam Margalit. Comparative Political Studies, 53(5): 734-774. **Winner of the 2021 Best Article Prize, Migration and Citizenship Section, APSA.
2020. "Another Progressive's Dilemma: Immigration, the Radical Right, and Threats to Gender Equality." Daedalus 149 (1), 56-71.
2019. "Can immigrants counteract employer discrimination? A factorial field experiment reveals the immutability of ethnic hierarchies." With Kåre Vernby. PLoS ONE. 4(7): e0218044.
2018."Beyond Numbers: Inclusion Types, Candidate Types, and Descriptive Representation." In Kristy Belton and Marc Helbling, eds. Newsletter of the American Political Science Association's Organized Section on Migration and Citizenship 6(1): 28-34.
2017. "Immigration and Ethnic Politics in Europe: Fertile Ground for Interdisciplinary Research and Theory Building." In Matt Golder and Sona Golder, eds. CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association 27(2): 17-22.
2015. "Why are Immigrants Underrepresented in Politics? Evidence from Sweden." With Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Sven Oskarsson, and Kåre Vernby. American Political Science Review 109(4): 703-724. **Winner of the 2015 SAGE Best Paper Award, Comparative Politics Section, APSA. **Winner of the 2016 Lawrence Longley Best Article Award given out by APSA’s section on Representation and Electoral Systems.
2015."Globalization, Labor Market Risks, and Class Cleavages." In The Politics of Advanced Capitalism, eds. Pablo Beramendi, Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt, and Hanspeter Kriesi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. With Stefanie Walter.
2014. “Immigration into Europe: Economic Discrimination, Violence and Public Policy,” with David D. Laitin. Annual Review of Political Science 17: 43-64.
2014. “Attitudes Toward Immigration in Good Times and in Bad,” with Michael Donnelly. In Mass Politics in Tough Times, eds. Nancy Bermeo and Larry M. Bartels. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2014. "Electoral Rules or Electoral Leverage?: Explaining Muslim Representation in England." World Politics 66(2): 229-263. **Winner of the 2015 Best Article Prize, Migration and Citizenship Section, APSA.
2013. “Culture, Context, and the Political Incorporation of Immigrant-origin Groups in Europe.” In Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation, eds. Jennifer Hochschild, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Claudine Gay, and Michael Jones-Correa. New York: Oxford University Press.
2013. "The Left and Minority Representation: The Labour Party, Muslim Candidates, and Inclusion Tradeoffs." Comparative Politics 46(1): 1-21.
2013. “Sectoral Economies, Economic Contexts, and Attitudes toward Immigration,” with Michael D. Donnelly. Journal of Politics 75(1): 17-35. **Winner of the 2014 Best Article Prize, European Politics and Society Section, APSA
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2010. "Hate Crime," with Donald P. Green, in Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination, eds. John F. Dovidio, Miles Hewstone, Peter Glick, and Victoria M. Esses. London: Sage.
2007. “The Politics of Race and Immigration in Great Britain: An Uneasy Balance,” in Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution, John Roemer, Woojin Lee and Karine Van der Straeten. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
2007. “Immigration and the Institutionalization of Xenophobia in France,” in Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution, John Roemer, Woojin Lee and Karine Van der Straeten. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
2006. “A New Electorate? Comparing Preferences and Partisanship between Immigrants and Natives,” with Elizabeth N. Saunders, American Journal of Political Science 50 (4): 962–981.
Selected Work in Progress
"Structures of Bias: How the State Systematically Downplays Right-Wing Extremism," with Jeyhun Alizade and Jonathan Homola.
Elite Rhetoric and the Normalization of Extremism: Insights from the January 6th Insurrection, with Felix Beilin and Ahra Wu.