RESEARCH INTERESTS
Civil Society and Civil Society Organizations, Comparative Public Administration and Policy, Democratization, Governance, Institutional Analysis, International Development, Research Design and Methods. Regional focus on the Global South, East Africa, and the Caribbean.
PUBLICATIONS
2020. Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs. Indiana Univserity, Department of Political Science and O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Doctoral Dissertation. https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/pubnum/28148186.html
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2020. “International Development Buzzwords: Understanding Their Use Among Donors, NGOs, and Academics.” Journal of Development Studies. With Allison Schnable, Rachel Sullivan Robinson, and Jennifer N. Brass. (Accepted).
2019. “Covenants, Constitutions, and Distinct Law Types: Investigating Governments' Restrictions on CSOs Using an Institutional Approach.” VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 30(6), 1229-1255.
2019. “Toward a Coherent Framework: A Typology and Conceptualization of CSO Regulatory Regimes.” Nonprofit Policy Forum, 9(4), 1-17.
EDITOR-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
2021. “Taking Time and Distinct Law Types Seriously: How the Effect of CSO Laws Vary by Types and Unfold Over Time.” In Bobbi Herzberg, Rosemarie Fike, and Rosolino Candela (Eds.) Institutions & Incentives in Public Policy. Lanham: Roman & Littlefield. [Under Contract 2021].
2020. “Ostromian Logic Applied to Civil Society Organizations and the Rules that Shape Them.” With Chrystie Swiney. In Shelia Foster and Chrystie Swiney (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations. Cambridge University Press. [Under Contract 2020].
2019. “Was it Worth It?: The Effects of ODA, NGOs, and Time on the Haitian State.” In Stefanie Haeffele, Abigail R. Hall, and Adam Millsap (Eds.) Informing Public Policy. Lanham: Roman & Littlefield.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
"The Multi-Method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense." With Allison Schnable, Rachel Robinson, Jennifer Brass, and Wes Longhofer.
“Understanding Formal Sector Salary Differentials in Developing Countries: Biases in Low-Information Environments.” With Alasdair C. Rutherford.
“Type I Error and Power Rates for Time-Invariant Predictors in Discrete Multilevel Survival Models: A Simulation Study.” With Julie Lorah, Yiming Qian, Poh Li Lau
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Laws, Judiciaries, and National Security Agencies: Advancing Theory and Concepts of Civil Society Laws. National Science Foundation Award #2004520. Principal Investigator. ($148,000).
Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs. Book-length dissertation combining qualitative coding of 285 laws, quantitative analysis of policy adoption and diffusion, and qualitative and archival fieldwork to understand their historical implementation.
NGO Knowledge Collective. Lead research assistant (2015-2017) to Jennifer N. Brass (Indiana University), Allison Schnable (Indiana University), Wes Longhofter (Emory University), and Rachel S. Robinson (American University). The research platform is the result of a systematic review of over 3,000 English, peer-reviewed, social science journal articles about NGOs in development published 1980-2014. www.ngoknowledgecollective.org
Cumulative Fieldwork Experience: Latin America and the Caribbean (primarily Haiti, 2011-2016); East Africa (primarily Kenya, 2018).
Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs. Book-length dissertation combining qualitative coding of 285 laws, quantitative analysis of policy adoption and diffusion, and qualitative and archival fieldwork to understand their historical implementation.
NGO Knowledge Collective. Lead research assistant (2015-2017) to Jennifer N. Brass (Indiana University), Allison Schnable (Indiana University), Wes Longhofter (Emory University), and Rachel S. Robinson (American University). The research platform is the result of a systematic review of over 3,000 English, peer-reviewed, social science journal articles about NGOs in development published 1980-2014. www.ngoknowledgecollective.org
Cumulative Fieldwork Experience: Latin America and the Caribbean (primarily Haiti, 2011-2016); East Africa (primarily Kenya, 2018).
