Selected Publications

BOOKS:

Civic Pedagogy: Teaching Civic Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics (co-edited volume, with Carah Ong Whaley and Allison Rank). Palgrave MacMillan (under contract, February 2023)

Slingshot: The Defeat of Eric Cantor. Congressional Quarterly Press. (With R. Keith Gaddie and David Elliot Meyer). 2015.

Filibustering in the U.S. Senate. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press. 2011.

Case Studies in Political Communication: A Multidisciplinary Approach (with Joan Conners and Ted Sheckels). Allyn & Bacon.  2008.

The U.S. Congress: A Simulation for Students.  Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth. 2005.     

~    Revised 2nd edition, Cengage Learning, January 2022.

Warring Factions: Interest Groups, Money, and the New Politics of Senate Confirmation. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press. 2002.

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES:

“The Court as Concert Hall: Music at the United States Supreme Court.” Journal of the Society for American Music, 17(2), 126-150. https://doi.org/10.1017/S175219632300010X (with James M. Doering).

“Equal justice under law? Prosecutor demographics and the death penalty.” Social Science Quarterly, vol. 103, no. 5: 1295-1305. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13201. August 25, 2022. (With Jami-Reese Darling Robertson.)

“The Temple of Liberty as Fort Knox: The Securitization of Democratic Space in the U.S. Capitol.” eJournal of Public Affairs, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 58-71.  March 26, 2022. (With Alisa J. Rosenthal.)

“Obstruction in parliaments: a cross-national perspective,” The Journal of Legislative Studies, 24:4, 499-525. DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2018.1544694, Winter 2018.

“Monitoring or Meddling: Congressional Oversight of the Judicial Branch.”  Wayne Law Review (Special issue on congressional oversight), Vol. 64(1), Summer 2018.

“Policy Statements or Symbolic Politics?: Explaining Congressional Court-Stripping Attempts.” Judicature. 89 (4): January-February 2006 (with Kevin M. Scott).

“Following the Leader or Leading the Followers? Congress and the President in the United States.”  Journal of Legislative Studies v.10(2-3),(Summer/Fall 2004), Pp. 193-206.

~        Reprinted in Executive Leadership and Legislative Assemblies, Nicholas J. Baldwin, ed. London: Routledge, 2006.

“Rational Behavior or the Norm of Cooperation?: Filibustering Behavior Among Retiring Senators.”(with L. Marvin Overby).  Journal of Politics, v. 66(3), (August 2004) Pp. 906-924.

“From Passive to Active Representation: The Case of Women Congressional Staff,” (with Cindy Simon Rosenthal). Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART) 13 (1), January 2003.

“Senatorial Discourtesy: The Senate’s Use of Delay to Shape the Federal Judiciary.” Political Research Quarterly 55 (3), (September 2002).

“Missing in Action: Interest Groups and Federal Judicial Appointments.”  Judicature (82:3), November-December 1998.