Policy and Practitioner Engagement

Stanford Internet Observatory

The New Copyright Trolls: How a Twitter Network Used Copyright Complaints to Harass Tanzanian Activists

In this report, co-authored with Shelby Grossman, Chris Giles, Cynthia N.M. and Miles McCain, we document how Twitter users strategically worked to get Tanzanian activists banned from Twitter.

Read the full report here.

MIT GOV/LAB

Why Do Politicians Support Private Schools? Exploring Political Incentives

In this blog post for MIT GOV/LAB, I report on qualitative research I conducted in India on politician support for private schooling.

Read the full blog post here.

Transparency and Accountability Initiative

Taxation and accountability in developing countries

Is there a fiscal contract between tax-paying citizens and their government? Is the presence of this contract linked to tax compliance or evasion? In this report, coauthored with Lily Tsai, Guillermo Toral, and Varja Lipovsek, we evaluate the evidence on the fiscal contract.

Read the full report here.

Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project

Election Administration Challenges in North Carolina

To understand the challenges of general election administration amidst a global pandemic, we looked to the primary elections to provide insight. I document changing voter patterns in North Carolina to help policymakers better prepare for the 2020 General Election.

Read the full report here, and the blog post here.

Twaweza and MIT GOV/LAB

Voting and Citizen Engagement in Uganda

With MIT GOV/LAB and Twaweza, a civil society organization active throughout East Africa, we sought to understand how citizens engagement with politicians and voting in the lead-up to the 2016 Ugandan Presidential Election.

Read the blog post here.

Twaweza and MIT GOV/LAB

Youth Engagement and Political Participation in Uganda

In partnership with the Youth Coalition for Electoral Democracy, Twaweza sought to increase youth engagement in electoral politics by organizing issue debates with politicians and party representatives. I documented these debates.

Read the blog post here.