Publications

Books

• • Elephant's Edge: The Republicans as a Ruling Party (Praeger, 2005)

  • The Floor in Congressional Life (University of Michigan Press, 2012)

  • Congress: A Performance Appraisal (Westview Press, 2013)

  • The End of Consensus: Diversity, Neighborhoods, and the Politics of Public School Assignments with Toby L. Parcel, (University of North Carolina Press, 2015)

National Affairs Pieces:  Reforming Appropriations (2019), The Expert in American Life (2022), The Future of Redistricting (2023).

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Most Recent Refereed Articles

• • "Trump and the Art of the Presidential Deal," White House Studies, forthcoming.

  • “The Individual-Level Origins of Congressional Corruption Scandals,” American Politics Research, 48 (July 2020): 442-54 (with Michael D. Cobb).

  • “Partisan Affiliation in Political Science: Insights from Florida and North Carolina,” PS: Political Science and Politics, 52 (October 2019): 706-10 (with Lonna Rae Atkeson).   

  •  “Legislative Seniority in the Partisan Congress,” Social Science Quarterly, 100 (June 2019): 1297-1307.

  • “The Revolution in Federal Procurement, 1980-Present,” Business and Politics, 21 (March 2019): 27-52.

  • “Proximity and the Principle-Policy Gap in White Racial Attitudes: Insight from Views of Student Assignment Policies in Wake County, North Carolina,” Social Science Research, 79 (February 2019): 95-103 (with Toby L. Parcel).

  • “Which U.S. House Members Present Their Legislative Records? Models of Electoral Accountability and the Content of Press Releases,” Congress and the Presidency, 44 (1, 2017): 102-19.

  •  “An Absence of Malice: The Limited Utility of Campaigning Against Party Corruption,” American Politics Research, 43 (November 2015): 923-51 (with Michael D. Cobb).

  • “Bill Passage Speed in the U.S. House: A Test of a Vote-Buying Model of the Legislative Process,” Journal of Legislative Studies, 3 (September 2014): 285-304.

  • “Paging Congressional Democrats: It Was the Immorality Stupid,” PS: Political Science and Politics, 47 (April 2014): 351-6 (with Michael D. Cobb).

  • “When Congress Asserts Itself: Examining Legislative Challenges to Executive Power,” The Forum, 10:2 (Article 2), July 2012.

  • “Does Presidential Primary and Caucus Order Affect Policy? Evidence from Federal Procurement Spending,” Political Research Quarterly, 63 (June 2010): 398-409.

  • “Strategic Intercameral Behavior and the Sequence of Congressional Lawmaking,” American Politics Research, 36 (May 2008): 451-74.

  • “The Presidential Pork Barrel and the Conditioning Effect of Term,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 38 (March 2008): 97-110.

  • “Size, Power, and Electoral Systems: Exogenous Determinants of Legislative Procedural Choice,” Legislative Studies Quarterly, 31 (August 2006): 323-45.

Projects--Manuscripts in Preparation or Under Review

Books

• • A Tolerance for Inequality:  America's Democracy and Its Economy

Articles & Book Chapters

• • Trump, Obama, and Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy

  • Strategic Behavior in Presidential Nominations

  • Populist or Professionalized? American Gubernatorial Institutions and Practices

  • For the Good of Congress: Collective Acts of Institutional Patriotism on Capitol Hill