I am an Associate Professor and the Research Director in the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. I earned an M.A. in international and development economics from Yale University in 1995 and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. My research and teaching interests include comparative politics (electoral politics, political economy, public opinion, Japan) and political methodology (statistical methods, research design).

I am the author of Institutions, Incentives and Electoral Participation in Japan: Cross-Level and Cross-National Perspectives (Routledge 2005). I also have articles published (or forthcoming) in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of East Asian Studies, Political Psychology, International Political Science Review, among others.