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] [APSR Blog post]

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. [Abstract]

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

How Border Change Impacts Language Use: Evidence from Europe 1815–1938. With Carl Müller-Crepon. [Abstract]

Migrant Responses to Nativist Policies. With Massimo Troncone and Fanny Valli-Puljic. [Abstract]