Research
Below, you’ll find my writing organized by publication type and year. For questions on any specific publication, email me at my .sandiego.edu email address and I am happy to talk to you about my work.
Academic work
Books
Journal articles
“Hyperpartisanship and the First Hundred Days.” With Terri Bimes and Dan Grushkevich. Congress & the Presidency, November 15, 2022, 1-25.
“Assessing the Trump presidency on its own terms,” The Forum 2021: 19(1): 5-26.
“A Few Reasonable Words.” With Cory Gooding and Timothy W. McCarty. PS: Political Science and Politics. 2019.
“Major effects: The impact of majoring in Political Science on Political Efficacy,” with Mike Williams and Keith W. Smith, Journal of Political Science Education, Jan-Mar 2017, 13:1, p 62-74.
"Does the Party Matter? Endorsements in Congressional Primaries," Political Research Quarterly 64: 3 (Sept., 2011) pp. 534-44.
“Groups and the Party Coalitions” with Matthew Grossman. American Politics Research 37:5. (September 2009) 767-700.
“Mandates, Honeymoons, and the Obama Administration,” The Forum, Spring 2009.
“Is it a Honeymoon? An Empirical Investigation of the President’s First Hundred Days” Congress and the Presidency (Spring 2005).
“Candidates and Candidacies in the Expanded Party,” with Jonathan Bernstein, PS::Political Science and Politics (April 2003: 165-169).
Book Chapters
“The Money Primary.” In Jonathan Bernstein and Casey Dominguez, ed. Making of the Presidential Candidates 2020. Rowman and Littlefield, 2019.
“The #Resistance Tips its Pussy Hat to HRC.” In The Hillary Effect: Perspectives on Clinton’s Legacy. Eds. Ivy A. M. Cargile, Denise Davis, Jennifer L. Merolla, and Rachel Van Sickle-Ward. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. Pp. 40-44.
“Fights in the Family: Primary Competition Among Partisan Interest Groups” in Robert Boatright, ed., Handbook of Primary Elections, Routledge, 2018.
“Politics of Comprehensive Immigration Reform” in People of Color in the United States: Contemporary Issues in Education, Work, Communities, Health and Immigration, eds. Kofi Lomotey et al, ABC-CLIO Greenwood Press, (2016) pp. 267-272.
“Polarization and Volatility: The State of the Party System in the Twenty-First Century,” Chapter 11 in The Guide to Political Parties, edited by Marjorie Randon Hershey, CQ Press/Sage (2014) pp. 143-156.
“The Wave Stopped at the Sierra Nevada,” in Cases in Congressional Campaigns eds. David Dulio and Richard Adkins, Routledge, 2011.
“Ronald Reagan’s First 100 Days,” in Reassessing the Reagan Presidency ed. Richard S.Conley (University Press of America, 2003).
Other writing
Book Reviews
Review of Fundraiser in Chief (University Press of Kansas 2023), Perspectives on Politics December 2023, pp 1481-2.
Review of Small Power: How Local Parties Shape Elections (Oxford University Press 2022) Party Politics 2023 https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068823115.
Review of Learning Through Loss: The Democrats 2016-2020 (Cambridge University Press, 2020) The Forum, Winter 2021.
Review of Winning the Presidency 2016. Crotty, William J., Ed. Winning the Presidency 2016, Congress & the Presidency, 45:3 (2018), 330-331.
Review of California Crack Up: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It by Joe Mathews and Mark Paul. Journal of San Diego History (Fall 2011, Vol 57 No. 4, pp. 301-2).
Review of Habeas Corpus in America: The Politics of Individual Rights, by Justin J. Wert Political Science Quarterly 126:4 (Winter 2011-12) pp. 703-4.
Op-eds
“Change the Coverage, Not the Calendar.” San Diego Union Tribune. Feb 28, 2020.
“The Presidency is at its most powerful ever—Now Trump takes charge,” Vocativ. http://www.vocativ.com/394057/president-most-powerful-ever-trump/, January 20, 2017.
“Active Learning Assignments for Teaching the Presidency,” THE PEP REPORT: The official Newsletter of the Presidents & Executive politics Section of APSA, Fall 2016, pp. 8-15.
“Does Party Conflict at the Convention Matter?” with Andrew Tirrell, Vox, May 25, 2016
“Trump will need funding and some prominent supporters” The New York Times, Room for Debate, May 11, 2016
“Incomplete Legacy? A Mixed Report Card for Obama,” San Diego Union Tribune, September 1, 2012.
“Voters will get the governor they demand,” San Diego Union Tribune June 13, 2010.
“What VP Choices Might Tell Voters,” San Diego Union Tribune. July 28, 2008.
"Nelson Polsby's Community," The Forum: Vol. 5 : Iss. 1, Article 17 (2007).