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JOURNAL ARTICLES
Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar (with Edmund Malesky) The Journal of Politics (2023).
Continuity, History, and Identity: Why Bongbong Marcos Won the 2022 Philippine Presidential Elections (with Allen Hicken, Anil Menon and Ronald Holmes) Pacific Affairs (2023).
How do Filipinos Remember Their History? A Descriptive Account of Filipino Historical Memory (with Allen Hicken, Anil Menon and Ronald Holmes).Contemporary Southeast Asia (2022).
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as the Colonial State in the Philippines. Comparative Political Studies (2022).
When Running for Office Runs in the Family: Horizontal Dynasties, Policy and Development in the Philippines (with Laurence Go). Comparative Political Studies (2021).
First Among Equals: The First Place Effect and Political Promotion in Multi-Member Plurality Elections (with Laurence Go). Journal of Public Economics (2021).
Basing and Barangays: The Domestic Politics of U.S. Military Bases in the Philippines (with J. Wellington Brown). Asian Security (2020).
Media and Commentary: Philippine Strategic Forum
R&R AND WORKING PAPERS
Sorry not Sorry: Presentational Strategies and Voting for Corrupt Politicians (with Seulki Lee). Conditionally Accepted. Electoral Studies.
I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Lee Kong Chian Fellow at Singapore Management University.
My main research interest centers on the Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia. I have particular interests in political history, colonialism, nationalism, and the political economy of development.
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