Publications

The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe (2025). With Yannick Pengl, Carl Müller-Crepon, Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin. American Political Science Review. [Journal - ungated] [Appendix]

Working papers

Assimilation, Emigration and Mobilization: Elite Responses to Territorial Conquest. (Job market paper.) [Working paper]

Who Pays for the Church? Political Connections and Religious Clientelism in Post-War Italy. With Massimo Troncone. Revise & resumit, American Journal of Political Science. [Working paper]

Peace Through Partition? A Spatial Analysis of State Splits and Conflict. With Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, María Murias Munoz, Yannick Pengl, Julian Wucherpfennig. Under review.

Shifting Partisan Attachments: The Impact of Electoral Defeat on Voter Preferences. With Massimo Troncone. [Working paper]

Domestic Minority Status and Support for Supranational Integration. With Massimo Troncone. [Working paper]

Selected work in progress

Border and Identity Change: Evidence from Europe, 1815–1938. With Carl Müller-Crepon.

Discriminatory Popular Initiatives and Migrant Assimilation. With Fanny Valli-Puljic and Massimo Troncone.