Research

Forthcoming

• "Domestic Policy Prioritization in the Obama Administration: An Initial Look at Barack Obama’s Political Project" In Evaluating the Obama Presidency: From Transformational Goals to Governing Realities, edited  by Meena Bose and Paul Fritz. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Conditionally Accepted

• "The Case for Agency: Three Dimensions of Discretion in Presidential Agenda Construction" at Presidential Studies Quarterly

Under Contract

• "Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint" (book project with John Dearborn) at Cambridge University Press, Elements in American Politics series

Working Papers

• "Institutional Interests as a Driver of Presidential Action"

• "The President's Publics: Societal Constructions and Policy Resonance from the Gilded Age to the New Deal"

In Progress

• "Overreach, Not Outreach: The Persistence of Presidential Ambition"

• "Self-Restraint and the American Founding"

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