Many statistical terms are daunting and can quickly become confusing. Even scholars themselves do not agree on what some mean. Try asking what a p-value is at a conference or, if you want to see ac...

Welcome to my personal website. Here, I share my research and teaching, as well as some notes on EU politics, political economy, learning statistics and literature. Feel free to contact me!

Ben Lambert’s “A Student’s Guide to Bayesian Statistics” offers a straightforward and pedagogical introduction to theoretical and applied Bayesian statistics. The book is couched in an elegant lang...

This text, which I co-authored with Waltraud Schelkle and Joe Ganderson, first appeared in the LSE COVID-19 Blog with all hyperlinks. Over the past decade, a new literature has emerged that consid...

With my co-authors Waltraud Schelkle and Joe Ganderson we have a new article published by West European Politics on emergency politics and democracy in the European Union. Check it out!

I have published a review of Luuk van Middelaar’s incisive “Alarums and Excursions: Improvising Politics on the European Stage” (2019) at the LSE Review of Books. Enjoy!

With Evelyne Huebscher and Thomas Sattler, we presented our new paper: “Fiscal Trade-Offs: The Politics of Austerity” at SASE 2020 (online). Check out the slides here, paper available soon!