Articles
“Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery.” Journal of Historical Political Economy, 2023 (with David Bateman).
“From Many Divides, One? The Polarization and Nationalization of American State Party Platforms, 1918-2017.” Studies in American Political Development, 2022. (with Daniel Hopkins and David Aziz).
“Policy and Performance in the New Deal Realignment: Evidence from Old Data and New Methods.” Journal of Politics, 2020 (with Devin Caughey and Michael Dougal)
“Madison’s Constitution Under Stress: A Developmental Analysis of Political Polarization.” Annual Review of Political Science, 2020 (with Paul Pierson).
“Causal Inference and American Political Development: Common Challenges and Opportunities.” Public Choice, 2020.
“The Resilience of Separation of Powers: Congress and the Russia Investigation.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2018 (with Douglas Kriner).
“On the Theory of Parties.” Annual Review of Political Science, 2018 (with Nolan McCarty)
“Reid’s Rules: Filibusters, the Nuclear Option, and Path Dependence in the U.S. Senate,” Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2018 (with Gregory Wawro).
Chapters and Contributions
“Congressional Investigations in a Polarized Era Or Has Polarization (and Trump?) Broken the Investigative Check.” In Lawrence C. Dodd, Bruce Oppenheimer and C. Lawrence Evans, eds., Congress Reconsidered, 12th ed.., 2021 (with Douglas Kriner).
“The Democratic-CIO Alliance: The Benefits of Friendship.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 2021 (with Devin Caughey).
“Polarization and the Durability of Madisonian Checks and Balances: A Developmental Analysis.” In Robert Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, and Kenneth Roberts, eds., Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Polarization, 2021 (with Paul Pierson).
“A Conversation with Theda Skocpol.” Annual Review of Political Science, 2019.
“Democracy for Realists, Groups, and Ordinary Voters.” Critical Review, 2018.