Select
Publications:
“Building Toward Major Policy Change:
Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1941-1950.” 2013. Law and History Review 31: 139-98. With Justin Peck.
“Buying Negative
Agenda Control in the U.S. House.” 2012. American Journal of Political
Science 56: 897-912. With Nathan W. Monroe.
“Partisan Agenda Control in
the U.S. House: A Theoretical Exploration.” 2012. Journal
of Theoretical Politics 24: 555-70. With Nathan W.
Monroe.
“Institutional Context and
Party Power: Member Participation and Leadership Strategy in the Lame-Duck
Congressional Era.” 2011. American Politics Review 39: 724-53.
With Timothy P. Nokken.
“Examining
the Electoral Connection Across Time.” 2011.
Annual
Review of Political Science 14: 25-46. With Jamie L.
Carson.
“Between
Reconstructions: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1891-1940.”
2010. Studies in American Political Development 24: 57-89. With Justin Peck and Vesla M. Weaver.
“Apportionment
Matters: Fair Representation in the U.S. House and Electoral College.”
2009. Perspectives on Politics 7: 849-57. With
Brian J. Gaines.
“Agency Problems, the
17th Amendment, and Representation in the Senate.” 2009. American Journal of Political
Science 53: 324-42. With Sean Gailmard.
“In Search of Killer
Amendments in the Modern U.S. House.” 2008. Legislative Studies Quarterly
33: 263-94. With Charles J. Finocchiaro.
“Partisanship, the
Electoral Connection, and Lame-Duck Sessions of Congress, 1877-2006.”
2008. Journal of Politics 70: 450-65. With Timothy
P. Nokken.
“Legislative Shirking
in the Pre-Twentieth Amendment Era: Presidential Influence, Party Power, and
Lame-Duck Sessions of Congress, 1877-1933.” 2008. Studies
in American Political Development 22: 111-40. With
Timothy P. Nokken.
“Negative Agenda
Control in the Senate and House: Fingerprints of Majority Party Power.”
2007 Journal
of Politics 69: 689-700. With Sean Gailmard.
“Who Should Govern
Congress? Access to Power and the Salary
Grab of 1873.” 2006. Journal of Economic History 66:
674-706. With Lee J. Alston and Tomas Nonnenmacher.
“Running to Lose?: John C.
Breckinridge and the Presidential Election of 1860.” 2006. Electoral
Studies 25: 306-28. With Irwin L. Morris.
“Partisanship and
Contested Election Cases in the Senate, 1789-2002.” 2005. Studies
in American Political Development 19: 53-74.
“Parties as Procedural
Coalitions in Congress: An Examination of Differing Career Tracks.”
2005. Legislative Studies Quarterly 30: 365-89. With Michael H. Crespin
and Jamie L. Carson.
“Constituency Cleavages and
Congressional Parties: Measuring Homogeneity and Polarization, 1857-1913.”
2004. Social Science History 28: 537-73. With
“Partisanship and
Contested Election Cases in the House of Representatives, 1789-2002.”
2004. Studies in American Political Development 18: 113-35.
“Shirking in the
Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal.” 2004. Political Analysis 12:
176-79. With Jamie L. Carson, Michael H. Crespin, and Ryan Vander Wielen.
“Out in the Open: The
Emergence of Viva Voce Voting in House Speakership Elections.”
2003. Legislative Studies Quarterly 28: 481-508. With Charles Stewart III.
“Investigating the Incidence
of Killer Amendments in Congress.” 2003. Journal of Politics
65: 498-517. With Michael C. Munger.
“The Impact of
National Tides and District-Level Effects on Electoral Outcomes: The U.S.
Congressional Elections of 1862-63.” 2001. American Journal of
Political Science 45: 887-98. With Jamie L. Carson,
David W. Rohde, and Mark Souva.
“Race and the
Representation of Blacks' Interests During
Reconstruction.” 2001. Political Research Quarterly 54:
181-204. With Michael D. Cobb.
“Examining the
Robustness of Ideological Voting: Evidence from the Confederate House of
Representatives.”
2000. American Journal of Political Science 44: 811-22.
“The Institutional
Origins of the Republican Party: Spatial Voting and the House Speakership
Election of 1855-56.” 2000. Legislative Studies Quarterly
25: 101-30. With Timothy P. Nokken.
“Partisanship and
Confederate Constitution‑Making Reconsidered: A Response to Bensel.”
1999. Studies in American Political Development 13: 245-62.
“Why No Parties?: Investigating the Disappearance of Democrat-Whig
Divisions in the Confederacy.” 1999. Studies in American
Political Development 13: 279-87.
“Examining the Bonding
Effects of Party: A Comparative Analysis of Roll‑Call Voting in the U.S.
and Confederate Houses.”
1999. American Journal of Political Science 43: 1144‑65.
“Ideology, Economic
Interests, and Congressional Roll-Call Voting: Partisan Instability and Bank of
the United States Legislation, 1811-1816.” 1999. Public Choice 100:
225-43. With Marc Weidenmier.
“The Spatial Theory of
Voting and the Presidential Election of 1824.” 1998. American Journal of
Political Science 42: 1157-79. With Brian R. Sala.
“Property Rights and
the Emergence of Standing Committee Dominance in the Nineteenth-Century House.” 1998. Legislative Studies
Quarterly 23: 493-519.
“A
Reexamination of Salary Discrimination in Professional Basketball.” 1996. Social Science
Quarterly 77: 594-608.