Journal Articles
"The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice." with Joshua Page. 2021. Science. 374(6565): 291-4.
"A Debt of Care: Commercial Bail and the Gendered Logic of Criminal Justice Predation." with Joshua Page and Victoria Piehowski. 2019. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 5(1): 150–72. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.07 Honorable Mention Recipient for the Sociology of Law Distinguished Article Award (American Sociological Association).
"On Casing a Study versus Studying a Case." 2018. Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. 16(1) 21-27.
“Schooling as a Formative Political Experience: Authority Relations and the Education of Citizens.” With Sarah K. Bruch. 2018. Perspectives on Politics. 16(1): 36-57.
"Unequal Positions: A Relational Approach to Racial Inequality Trends in the U.S. States, 1940-2010." with Sarah K. Bruch and Aaron J. Rosenthal. 2018. Social Science History. doi:10.1017/ssh.2018.36.
“Police Are Our Government: Politics, Political Science, and the Policing of Race-Class Subjugated Communities.” With Vesla Weaver. 2017. Annual Review of Political Science. 20: 565-91.
“On the Varied Uses of Concepts in Interpretive Research.” 2017. European Political Science. April.
“Intersectionality as an Assembly of Analytic Practices: Subjects, Relations, and Situated Comparisons.” With Zein Murib. 2015. New Political Science. 37(4): 649-56.
“Neoliberalism for the Common Good? Public Value Governance and the Downsizing of Democracy.” With Adam J. Dahl. 2014. Public Administration Review. 74(4): 496-504.
“Policy Feedback and the Politics of Administration.” With Donald P. Moynihan. 2014. Public Administration Review. 74(3): 320-32.
“From Work Support to Work Motivator: Child Care Subsidies and Caseworker Discretion in the Post-Welfare Reform Era.” With Linda Houser, Sanford F. Schram, and Richard C. Fording. 2014. Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy. 35(2): 174-93.
“Classes, Races, and Marginalized Places: Notes on the Study of Democracy’s Demise.” 2014. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 651(January): 250-54.
“Do Welfare Sanctions Help of Hurt the Poor? Estimating the Causal Effect of Sanctioning on Client Earnings.” With Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram. 2013. Social Service Review. 87(4): 641-76.
“Race and the Local Politics of Punishment in the New World of Welfare.” with Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram. 2011. American Journal of Sociology. 116(5): 1610-57.
“The Organization of Discipline: From Performance Management to Perversity and Punishment” with Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram. 2011. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 21(1): 203-32. ***Winner of the Beryl Radin Award for the best article published in JPART in 2011 (Public Management Research Association).
“The Third Level of U.S. Welfare Reform: Governmentality under Neoliberal Paternalism.” With Sanford F. Schram, Richard C. Fording, and Linda Houser. 2010. Citizenship Studies. 14(6): 739-54.
“The Politics of Inequality in America: A Political Economy Framework.” with Lawrence R. Jacobs. 2010. Annual Review of Political Science. 13: 341-64
“From Policy to Polity: Democracy, Paternalism and the Incorporation of Disadvantaged Citizens.” With Sarah K. Bruch and Myra Marx Ferree. 2010. American Sociological Review. 75(2): 205-26.
“Deciding to Discipline: Race, Choice, and Punishment at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform.” with Sanford Schram, Richard Fording, and Linda Houser. 2009. American Sociological Review. 74(3): 398-422.
“Public Responses to Health Disparities: How Group Cues Influence Support for Government Intervention.” with Elizabeth Rigby, Bridget Booske, Angela Kempf, and Stephanie Robert. 2009. Social Science Quarterly. 90(5): 1321-40.
“The Place of Inequality: Contexts, Individuals, and Class Biases in the American Polity.” with Lawrence R. Jacobs. 2009. Political Science Quarterly.124(1): 95-125.
“The Color of Devolution: Race, Federalism, and the Politics of Social Control.” with Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram. 2008. American Journal of Political Science. 52(3): 536-53.
“Neoliberal Poverty Governance: Race, Place and the Punitive Turn in U.S. Welfare Policy.” with Sanford F. Schram, Richard C. Fording. 2008. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 1(1): 17-36.
“A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy Feedback.” with Sanford F. Schram. 2007. American Political Science Review. 101(1): 111-27. Supplemental Analyses.
“Devolution, Discretion, and the Effect of Local Political Values on TANF Sanctioning.” with Richard C. Fording and Sanford F.Schram. 2007. Social Service Review. 81(2): 285-316.
“The Illusion of Technique: How Method-Driven Research Leads Welfare Scholarship Astray.” with Meghan Condon, Matthew Holleque, and Amber Wichowsky. 2006. Social Science Quarterly. 87(4): 798-807.
“The Political Roots of Disability Claims: How State Environments and Policies Shape Citizen Demands.” with Lael Keiser. 2006. Political Research Quarterly. 59(1): 133-48.
“The Consequences of Public Policy for Democratic Citizenship: Bridging Policy Studies and Mass Politics.” with Suzanne Mettler. 2004. Perspectives on Politics. 2(1): 1-19.
“Why Do White Americans Support the Death Penalty?” with Laura Langbein and Alan Metelko. 2003. Journal of Politics. 65(2): 397-421.
“Setting the Terms of Relief: Explaining State Policy Choices in the Devolution Revolution.” with Sanford Schram, Thomas Vartanian, and Erin O’Brien. 2001. American Journal of Political Science. 45(2): 378-95.
“Success Stories: Welfare Reform, Policy Discourse, and the Politics of Research.” with Sanford Schram. 2001. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 557(September): 49-65. reprinted in the Finnish journal, Tiedotustutkimus. 2001, Issue 4: 94-108.
“Lessons of Welfare: Policy Design, Political Learning, and Political Action.” 1999. American Political Science Review. 93(2): 363-80.
“Welfare Application Encounters: Subordination, Satisfaction, and the Puzzle of Client Evaluations.” 1999. Administration & Society. 31(1): 50-94.
“The Real Value of Welfare: Why There Is No Welfare Migration.” with Sanford Schram. 1999. Politics & Society. 27(1): 39-66.
“Spectacular Politics, Dramatic Interpretations: Multiple Meanings in the Thomas/Hill Hearings.” with Virginia Sapiro. 1999. Political Communication. 16: 285-314.
“Already Hit Bottom: General Assistance, Welfare Retrenchment, and Single Male Migration.” with Thomas Vartanian, Sanford Schram, and Jim Baumohl. 1999. American Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare. 26(2): 151-74.
“With Good Cause: Bureaucratic Discretion and the Politics of Child Support Enforcement.” with Lael Keiser. 1998. American Journal of Political Science. 42(4): 1133-56.
“Making Something Out of Nothing: Welfare Reform and a New Race to the Bottom.” with Sanford Schram. 1998. Publius. 28(3): 67-88.
“Reading Public Opinion: The Influence of News Coverage on Perceptions of Public Sentiment.” with Diana Mutz. 1997. Public Opinion Quarterly. 61(3): 431-51.
“Partisan Divisions and Voting Decisions: U.S. Senators, Governors, and the Rise of a Divided Federal Government.” with David Canon. 1995. Political Research Quarterly. 48(2): 253-274.