Harmony or Cacophony? A Disaggregated Analysis of Aid Fragmentation (with Sebastian Ziaja). Forthcoming in Studies in Comparative International Development.
Confronting ‘chaos’: a qualitative study assessing public health officials’ perceptions of the factors affecting Tanzania’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout? (with Thespina Yamanis, Olivia Gonyea, Sophia Skaff, Nelson Kisanga, and Henry Mollel) 2023. BMJ Open 13(1):e065081.
Coping with Denialism: How Street-Level Bureaucrats Adapted and Responded to COVID-19 in Tanzania (with Thespina Yamanis and Henry Mollel) 2021. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 46(6), 989-1017.
Local interest group activity and environmental degradation in authoritarian regimes (with Marina Povitkina) 2021. World Development 142 105425.
Open Data from Authoritarian Regimes: New Opportunities, New Challenges. (with Rachael McLellan) 2021. Perspective on Politics 19(1): 50-170. Perspectives on Politics.
Life Under Lockdown: Illustrating Tradeoffs in South Africa’s Response to COVID-19. (with Moraka N Makhura) 2021. World Development 137: January 2021, 105168.
When Does Transparency Improve Public Services? Street-level Discretion, Information, and Targeting. (with Monika Bauhr) 2020. Public Administration. Early View.
Gendered Accountability: When and Why Do Women’s Policy Priorities Get Implemented? (with Valeriya Mechkova) 2020. European Political Science Review, 1-19.
Who gets what — and how efficiently? Incorporating distributional concerns into the measurement of local government efficiency. 2019. Research & Politics 6(3).
Money Flows, Water Trickles: Understanding Patterns of Decentralized Water Provision in Tanzania. 2017. World Development 93: 16-30.
The Open Budget Index: An Innovative Tool for Measuring Budget Transparency. (with Jan Siefert and Elena Mondo) 2013. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 15(1): 87-101.
Improving Transparency and Accountability in the Budget Process: An Assessment of Recent Initiatives. 2013. Development Policy Review 31(s1): s49-s67.
Budget Transparency Around The World: Results From The 2008 Open Budget Survey. (with Paolo De Renzio, Warren Krafchik And Vivek Ramkumar.) 2009. OECD Journal on Budgeting 9(2): 1-17.
"Adapting COVID-19 containment in Africa: Lessons from Tanzania" (with Thespina Yamanis and Henry Mollel). 2021. In Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19, eds. Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, André Peralta-Santos, Elize Massard da Fonseca. University of Michigan Press.
"Governance Beyond the State: Social Institutions and Service Delivery" (with Ellen Lust). 2021. In Oxford Handbook of Quality of Government, eds. Marcia Grimes, Monica Bauhr, Andreas Bågenholm, Bo Rothstein. Oxford University Press.
State-Building in A Diverse Society (with Ameet Morjaria and Joris Mueller). NBER Working Paper 30731 (December 2022).
Who cares during crisis? New global gender data on time poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic. (with Tara Patricia Cookson, Lorena Fuentes, and Alex Berryhill). Ladysmith Working Paper: July 2021.
Assessing the Costs and Benefits of COVID-19 Containment Strategies in Africa. Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem) Users Working Paper 2021:40. (February 2021).
Review of Smith, Daniel Jordan, Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria. H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews. January, 2023.
Comparing Military and Human Security Spending: Key Findings and Methodological Notes. May 2022. UN Women.
A gender data snapshot of life during COVID-19: Survey on Gender Equality at Home Report. (with Tara Patricia Cookson, Lorena Fuentes, and Alex Berryhill) September 2020. Facebook Data for Good.
A Vicious Cycle? Understanding Constraints on the Expression of Demand for Improved Service Delivery. September 2019. APSA Comparative Democratization Newsletter 17(3): 21-24.
"Decentralization and the delivery of water and sanitation services in Tanzania." (with Jamie Boex) September 2017. World Bank Water Global Practice and Governance Global Practice.
Beyond the State: Measuring Governance at the Community Level. (with Adam Harris, Kristen Kao, Pierre Landry, Ellen Lust and Lise Rakner) June 2017. APSA Comparative Democratization Newsletter 16(1): 26-29.
"Identifying and overcoming binding constraints to rural water services for the B40 in Tanzania." June 2017. WASH Poverty Diagnostic commissioned by the World Bank.
"`The Users' in Technology-for-Transparency-and-Accountability Initiatives: Assumptions and Realities" (with Rosemary McGee) October 2013. Learning study commissioned by Hivos.
Raising The Stakes: The Impact of HakiElimu's Advocacy Work on Education Policy and Budget in Tanzania. (with Rosemary McGee.) 2013. International Budget Partnership Case Study No. 12.