2022. “The Paradox of Civilization: Preinstitutional Sources of Security and Prosperity” (with Ernesto dal Bó and Pablo Hernández-Lagos), American Political Science Review 116.1: 213–30.

2022. “Nineteenth-Century State Formation and Long-Term Economic Performance in Latin America.” In David Collier and Gerardo Munck (eds.). Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science. ‎ Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

2021. “Inclusionary Turn, Rentier Populism, and Emerging Legacies.” In Diana Kapiszewski, Steve Levitsky and Deborah Yashar (eds.). The Inclusionary Turn in Latin America. Cambridge University Press.

2017a. “Critical Juncture and Legacies: State Formation and Economic Performance in Latin America.” Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 15.1: 29-35.

2017b. “States, Regimes, and Other Structures of Rule.” APSA Comparative Democratization Newsletter 15.1: 6, 27-31.

2014a. “Varieties of Clientelism” (with Jordan Gans-Morse and Simeon Nichter), American Journal of Political Science 58.2: 415-432.

2014b. “State or Democracy First?” (with Gerardo Munck), Democratization: 1221-1243.

2014c. “Rentier Populism and the Rise of Super-presidents in South America“, in Mainwaring, S., Leiras, M., & Brinks, D. (2014). Reflections on Uneven Democracies: The Legacy of Guillermo O’Donnell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press: 89-105.

2013. “The Rise of Rentier Populism in South America,” Journal of Democracy 24.2: 108-122.

2012. “Commodity Boom and Institutional Poisoning: The New Political Economy of South America,” in J. Dominguez and M. Shifter (eds.), Democratic Governance in Latin America, Johns Hopkins University Press.

2010. “Macrofoundations of Regime Change: Democracy, State Formation, and Capitalist Development.” Comparative Politics 43.1: 1-19.

2010. “Access to Power Versus Exercise of Power: Rreconceptualizing the Quality of Democracy in Latin America.” Studies in Comparative International Development 45.3: 334-357.

2009. “Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia” (with James Robinson), Hispanic American Historical Review 89.2: 285–321.

2007a. “Rent Seeking,” in Mark Bevir (ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Governance, Thousand Oaks, Sage Press: 822-823.

2007b. “Re-conceptualizing Democratization,”in Gerardo Munck (ed.), Regimes and Democracy in Latin America: Theories and Methods, New York, Oxford University Press: 39-50.

2005. “Does History Repeat?” (with Ruth Berins Collier), Oxford Handbook of Political Science, New York, Oxford University Press: 472-488.

2004. “Quality of Democracy,” in Guillermo O’Donnell et al. (eds.), The Quality of Democracy: Theory and Applications, South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press: 249-259.