Publications
Checks, Balances, and Presidential Ambitions, with Ayse Eldes and Kenneth Lowande. Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2026.
Voter Fraud, Voter ID, and Legitimacy. American Politics Research, 2026.
Cover Bills, with Nicolas Florez. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2026.
A Tournament Theory of Congressional Leadership, with Joshua McCrain. Public Choice, 2025.
The Congressional Leadership Dilemma. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2025.
Expertise Acquisition in Congress, with Kenneth Lowande and Adam Rauh. American Journal of Political Science, 2025.
Information and Confrontation in Congressional Oversight, with Ayse Eldes and Kenneth Lowande. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2024.
Entrenched Leviathans. Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 2024.
Anticipating the Consequences of Filibuster Reforms. The Forum, 2023.
The Preference for Reciprocity in Congress. American Journal of Political Science, 2023.
Causal Inference with Latent Treatments, with Justin Grimmer. American Journal of Political Science, 2023.
Rules and the Containment of Conflict in Congress. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2022.
How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts, with Naoki Egami, Justin Grimmer, Margaret Roberts, and Brandon Stewart. Science Advances, 2022.
Machine Learning Predictions as Regression Covariates, with Matthew Tyler. Political Analysis, 2021.
Expertise, Networks, and Interpersonal Influence in Congress. Journal of Politics, 2020.
Political Legacies, with Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit. PS: Political Science and Politics, 2019.
Covariate Balancing Propensity Score for a Continuous Treatment, with Chad Hazlett and Kosuke Imai. Annals of Applied Statistics, 2018.
Limited Obstruction, with Keith Krehbiel. American Political Science Review, 2018.
Discovery of Treatments from Text Corpora, with Justin Grimmer. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016.
Working Papers
Campaign Contributions, Reciprocity, and Gender Solidarity, with Joshua McCrain and Catherine Wineinger. Accepted at Journal of Politics.
Ambition and Conflict in State Legislatures, with Michael Kistner. Accepted at Journal of Politics.
Other Writings
Review of The Money Signal: How Fundraising Matters in American Politics. Congress & the Presidency, 2026.
A Responsible Filibuster. National Affairs, 2025.
Democrats Have Everything to Lose If They Abolish the Filibuster. The Hill, 2024.
How Nancy Pelosi Overcame Her Opposition and Became House Speaker. Again. Washington Post, 2019.