Peer-Reviewed Publications

*Graduate student co-author.

(Forthcoming). The Trajectories of Personalism: How Dictators Accumulate Power Over Time. Democratization.

(Forthcoming). Is ChatGPT Conservative or Liberal? A Novel Approach to Assess Ideological Stances and Bias in Generative LLMs. Political Science Research and Methods.

. (Forthcoming). Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Online Discourse. Sociological Methods & Research

(Forthcoming). Can Social Media Help Incumbents Subvert Democracy? Politics & Society.
(2025). Behind the Mask: Random and Selective Masking in Transformer Models Applied to Specialized Social Science Texts. PLOS ONE.

(2025). BERT, RoBERTa or DeBERTa? Comparing Performance Across Transformer Models in Political Science Text. Journal of Politics.

(2024). Revisiting the Personalism and Economic Performance Debate: Do All Personalist Dictators Produce Worse Economic Outcomes? Political Studies Review.

(2023). The Rush To Personalize: Power Concentration After Failed Coups in Dictatorships. British Journal of Political Science.

(2023). Et Tu, Brute? Wealth Inequality and the Political Economy of Authoritarian Replacement. Studies in Comparative International Development.

(2022). Spikes and Variance: Using Google Trends to Detect and Forecast Protest. Political Analysis.

(2021). Will I die of coronavirus? Google Trends data reveal that politics determine virus fears. PLOS ONE.

(2021). Wealth Wars: How Productivity Gaps Explain Democratic Erosion in Advanced Democracies. European Political Science Review.

(2021). Estimating group fixed effects in panel data with a binary dependent variable: How the LPM outperforms logistic regression in rare events data. Social Science Research.

(2021). How do shocks realign interest group lobbying in congress? Evidence from ecuador. Journal of Legislative Studies.

(2020). Institutions as Signals: How Dictators Consolidate Power in Times of Crisis. Comparative Politics.

(2019). Where In The World Is My Tweet: Detecting Irregular Removal Patterns On Twitter. PLOS ONE 13(9): e0203104..

Book Project

. Large Language Models in Political Science: Principles and Applications of BERT, ChatGPT and Other Transformer Models. Under Review.

Book Chapters

(Forthcoming). Ways Out of Dictatorship. In The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics, edited by Anne Wolf. Oxford University Press.

(2024). Personalism in Dictatorships: Disentangling the Process of Power Accumulation Over Time. In Research Handbook on Authoritarianism, edited by Natasha Lindstaedt and Jeroen Van den Bosch. Wiley.

(2020). Big Relational Data: Network-Analytic Measurement, in The Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. SAGE.

Selected Works in Progress

. Using LLMs to Identify Overt and Covert Racism in Spanish. Revise and resubmit.

. Rolling Memory: A New Approach to Annotation with Generative LLMs in Social and Political Research. Revise and Resubmit.

. Synthetic Imputation for Training Data Using Generative LLMs. Under Review.

. Economic Shocks and Power Concentration in Dictatorship. Under Review.

. Using Memory Prompting with Generative LLMs Significantly Improves Performance in Supervised Classification Tasks. Under Review.

. Whom to Appoint? Analyzing Cabinet Formation and Change in Dictatorship. In Progress.

. Does ChatGPT Polarize Voters? In Progress.

Teaching

At Purdue, I teach the following courses:

  • POL 501: Introduction to Political Methodology
  • POL 641: MLE, Machine Learning and Regime Change
  • POL 491: The Rise and Fall of Dictators
  • POL 141: Governments of the World (Intro to CP)
  • SCLA 102: Democracy, Citizenship and Civic Duty