Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
Reaching for the Threshold: How Minimum Participation Rules Facilitate Multilateral Treaty Ratification
Journal of Conflict Resolution (Forthcoming)
The Role of Hyperparameters in Machine Learning Models and How to Tune Them
Political Science Research and Methods, 12(4), p.841-848. (2024)
Perceiving Distances and Construing Targets Based on Communication
Social Cognition, 42(5), p.355-375. (2024)
How Presidents Follow the Call of International Capital
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 15(3), p.262-286. (2023)
Scaling Court Decisions with Citation Networks
Journal of Law and Courts, 11(1), p.25-44. (2023)
Hidden in Plain Sight? Detecting Electoral Irregularities Using Statutory Results
Electoral Studies, 74. (2021)
Really Useful Data—A Framework to Evaluate the Quality of Differentially Private Data
Workshop on Economics of Privacy and Data Labor, Thirty-seventh International Conference on Machine Learning. (2020)
Presidents, Policy Compromise and Legislative Success
Journal of Politics, 79(2), p.380-395. (2017)
Empty Promises and Non-Incorporation in Mercosur
International Interactions, 43(4), p.643-667. (2017)
The Legalization of Dispute Resolution in Mercosur
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 5(3), p.97-132. (2013)
Book Chapters & Other Publications
Deep Learning
In: Liebe, Ulf, Handbook of Quantitative Methods in Sociology, Edward Elgar. (Forthcoming)
Working with Synthetic Data: The Do's, Dangers and Don'ts
Sage Research Methods: Research and Data Literacy. (2025)
Coalition Cabinets, Presidential Ideological Adjustment and Legislative Success
In: de Oliveira Xavier, Lídia et al., A Qualidade da Democracia no Brazil, Editora CRV. (2018)
Under Review
- “Words as Trigger Points in Social Media Discussions” (with Dimosthenis Antypas, Jose Camacho-Collados, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Carla Perez Almendros)
- “How Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data” (with Andreas Küpfer)
- “Structuring Quantitative Image Analysis with Metric Depth” (with Andreas Küpfer)
- “Promissory Representation in a Dominant Party System” (with Daksh Dewgun, Jac Larner and Fraser McMillan)
Working Papers
- “The Politics of Psychological Distance” (with Hannah Bechara and Slava Jankin)
- “Polarization in Bi-Directional Political Communication” (with Andreas Küpfer and Christine Sheldon)
- “How Useful is Your LLM Output? A Probabilistic Approach to Assessing Synthetic Text Data” (with James Cross, Tim Henrichsen and Christine Sheldon)
- “Identifying Ideological Slant in Print Media through Image Analysis” (with Andreas Küpfer, Oliver Rittmann and Michelle Torres)