He works on secession, ethnic politics and conflict, fiscal federalism, and public policy in federal systems. He is the author of Secessionism: Identity, Interest, and Strategy (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012), which argues that providing a clear, legal path to secession will reduce nationalist violence in deeply divided countries. In addition, his articles have appeared in Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Regional and Federal Studies, and Electoral Studies. He currently is working on a project on fiscal federalism in developing countries, investigating whether apparently economically perverse forms of federalism have a secession-deterring logic. Click here for paper