Research Articles

• (2023) ‘The determinants of electoral register quality: a cross-national analysis’ Representation, with Holly Ann Garnett.
• (2022) ‘Governance and Public Administration in China, Policy Studies‘, 43(3), with Wei Liu and Caixia Man.
• (2021) ‘Informational Democracy Promotion? Electronic Gray Literature and Democratization‘, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 17(2), December 2021, p.1-26.
• (2021) ‘The effects of Donald Trump‘, Policy Studies, 42(5/6), p.755-69
• (2021) ‘ Assessing the Policy Effects of Political Leaders: a Layered Framework‘, Policy Studies, 42(5/6), p.437-454.
• (2021) ‘Measuring electoral integrity: using practitioner knowledge to assess elections‘, Journal of Election, Public Opinion and Parties, with Holly Ann Garnett, 31(3), p. 348-367.
• (2021) ‘Electoral Administration and the Problem of Poll Worker Recruitment: Who Volunteers, and Why?” Public Policy and Administration, with Alistair Clark, early view.
• (2021) ‘New Development: Running elections during a pandemic‘ Public Money and Management, 41(1), p.65-8.
• (2020) ‘When is it democratic to postpone an election? Elections during natural disasters, COVID-19 and emergency situations’, Election Law Journal, 19(3), pp. 344-362, with Sead Alihodzic.
• (2020) ‘Cyber elections: the threats and opportunities of using technology for electoral integrity’, Election Law Journal, with Holly Ann Garnett, 19(2), p.111-126.
• (2020) ‘Delivering Electoral Integrity Under Pressure: Local Government, Electoral Administration and the 2016 EU Referendum in the UK‘, Local Government Studies, 47(2), 186-207, with Alistair Clark
• (2020) ‘The case for inclusive voting practices’, Policy Studies, with Holly Ann Garnett, 21 (3-4), 113-130, Download pre-print.
• (2020) ‘Electoral integrity, voter fraud and voter ID in polling stations: lessons from English local elections‘, Policy Studies, 41 (2-3) p.190-209 with Alistair Clark, download pre-print.
• (2020) ‘Inclusive voting practices: lessons for theory, praxis, and the future research agenda’, Policy Studies, 20 (2-3), p.288-294, with Holly Ann Garnett.
• (2019) ‘Better Workers, Better Elections? Electoral Management Body Workforces Worldwide and Electoral Integrity‘, International Political Science Review, 40 (3) 370-390.
• (2019) ‘Electoral Management and the Organisational Determinants of Electoral Integrity‘, International Political Science Review, with Holly Ann Garnett, Leontine Loeber and Carolien van Ham, 40 (3) 295-312.
• (2018) ‘Political Leadership as Statecraft? Aligning Theory with Praxis in Conversation with British Party Leaders’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 20(3), pp. 555–572.
• (2018) ‘The Higher Education Impact Agenda, Scientific Realism and Policy Change: the Case of Electoral Integrity in Britain’, British Politics, 13(3), pp.312–331 (pre-print pdf).
• (2017) ‘Improving Electoral Management: The Organisational Determinants of Electoral Integrity’, Electoral Expert Review, issue 15, p.18-25, with Leontine Loeber, Holly Ann Garnett and Carolien van Ham.
• (2017) ‘The cost of elections: The effects of public sector austerity on electoral integrity and voter engagement,’ Public Money and Management, volume 37(7), pp. 461-468 (pdf).
• (2017) ‘The Effects of Centralising Electoral Management Board Design,’ Policy Studies, 38(2), pp.130-148, (pdf).
• (2016) ‘Neo-Statecraft Theory, Historical Institutionalism and Institutional Change’, Government and Opposition, 51(1) 84-110.
• (2015) ‘Integrating Structural Context into the Assessment of Political Leadership: Realism, Gordon Brown and the Great Financial Crisis‘, Parliamentary Affairs, 68(1), 77-96, with Jim Buller (download pdf).
• (2014) ‘The Spill-over and Displacement Effects of Implementing Election Administration Reforms: Introducing Individual Electoral Registration in Britain’, Parliamentary Affairs, 67 (2): 281-305.
• (2013) ‘Fixing U.K. Failures of Electoral Management’, Electoral Studies, 32(4), December 2013, p. 597–608
• (2012) ‘Statecraft and the Assessment of National Political Leaders: the Case of New Labour and Tony Blair‘, British Journal of Politics and International Relations (with Jim Buller), 14(4), 534-555.
• (2011) ‘Only in America? Executive partisan interest and the politics of election administration in Ireland, the UK and the USA’ , Contemporary Politics, 17(3), p.219-240.
• (2011) ‘Fewer “costs”, more votes? U.K. Innovations in Electoral Administration 2000-2007 and their effect on voter turnout‘, Election Law Journal, 10(1), p.37-52.
• (2010) ‘Electoral Administration and Voter Turnout: Towards an International Public Policy Continuum‘, Representation, 46(4), p.369-89 (table 1, table 2).
• (2010) ‘Electoral modernisation or elite statecraft: Electoral administration in the UK 1997-2007’, British Politics, 5(2), p.179-201.
• (2010) ‘Researching Electoral Administration in America: Insights from the post-Florida era‘, Political Studies Review, 8(3).
• (2009) ‘What ever happened to Régulation Theory? The Régulation Approach and local government revisited’, Policy Studies, 30(2), p181-201.