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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University. 

My work explores how political institutions shape and limit state power across democratic and authoritarian regimes. I use formal models and political economy approaches to analyze how elections, representation, and international human rights dynamics influence state strategies, including repression and political violence. More recently, my research examines how technological change is reshaping the architecture of political power, focusing on digital authoritarianism and the emergence of new infrastructures of preventive control. A central goal of my work is to understand the political and institutional conditions under which governments can be effectively contained, and their power held accountable to citizens and institutions.

For more information about my past and current research, please visit my publications and work-in-progress pages on this website.

You can find my cv here.

My Google Scholar profile is here.