Research

In Print

• “The Case for Agency: Three Dimensions of Discretion in Presidential Agenda Construction,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 54 (2024): 290-309.

• “Why Health Care Came First, and Other Observations on Barack Obama’s Early Domestic Policy Agenda,” in Evaluating the Obama Presidency: From Transformational Goals to Governing Realities, ed. Meena Bose and Paul Fritz (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024), 55-70.

Under Contract

• "Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint" with John A. Dearborn (book project under contract at Cambridge University Press as part of its Elements in American Politics series) 

Working Papers

• “From Whiggish Winces to Unitarian Ukases: The Evolution of Institutional Interests in the American Presidency”

• “The President’s Publics: Societal Constructions and Policy Resonance”

In Progress

• "Overreach, Not Outreach: Presidential Ambition as an Institutional Motivation"

• "The President's First Moves: The Dynamics of Agenda Construction, 1968-2022" (book-length dissertation project)