2009
“Partisan Signaling and Agenda Control in the U.S. House of Representatives,” with Jamie Carson and Anthony Madonna. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON Canada.
“How To Analyze Political Attention With Minimal Assumptions And Costs,” with Kevin M. Quinn, Burt L. Monroe, Michael Colaresi, and Dragomir R. Radev. Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science.
"Serving Two Masters: Redistricting and Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives," Forthcoming, Political Research Quarterly
“Constituency Congruency and Candidate Competition in
Primary Elections for the U.S. House,” with Jamie Carson, Carrie Eaves and Emily Wanless. Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
“Inter-Chamber Polarization of Debate
and Bill Success in the U.S. Congress,” with Burt Monroe and Kevin Quinn. Paper presented at the Duke University Conference on Bicameralism, Durham, NC.
“If You Can’t Join ‘em, Beat ‘em: The Gender Gap in Individual Donations to Congressional Candidates," with Janna Dietz. Forthcoming, Political Research Quarterly.
“Perception and Reality in Congressional Earmarks," with Charles Finocchiaro and Emily Wanless. The Forum. (2009) 7(2): Article 1.
2008
"Tracking the Dynamic Evolution of Participants Salience in a Discussion" with Ahmed Hassan, Anthony Fader, Burt Monroe, Kevin Quinn, Michael Colaresi and Dragomir Radev. Proceedings of COLING (Conference on Computational Linguistics), pages 313-320 (2008), Manchester, UK.
“Backward Mapping: Exploring Questions of Representation via Spatial Analysis of Historical Congressional Districts,” with Trey Hood. Paper presented at the History of Congress Conference, Washington D.C. May 29th-June 1st.
“Constituency Congruency, Federalism, and Candidate Competition in U.S. House Elections,” with Jamie Carson, Carrie Eaves and Emily Wanless. Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
2007
“Distributive and Partisan Politics in the U.S. Senate: An Exploration of Earmarks, 1996 – 2005,” with Charles Finocchiaro. In Why Not Parties? Party Effects in the United States Senate. Nathan Monroe, Jason Roberts and David Rohde eds. University of Chicago Press.
"Redistricting, Constituency Influence, and Party Polarization in Congress," with Jamie Carson, Charles Finocchiaro and David Rohde. American Politics Research (2007) 35(6): 878-904. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
“MavenRank: Identifying Influential Members of the U.S. Senate using Lexical Centrality," with Dragomir Radev, Anthony Fader, Burt L. Monroe, Kevin M. Quinn and Michael Colaresi. Proceedings of the (EMNLP) Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing, pages 658-666 (2007). Prague, Czech Republic.
“Backward Mapping: Exploring Questions of Representation via Spatial Analysis of Historical Congressional Districts,” with Trey Hood. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago IL.
“Dimensions, Issues, and Bills: Appropriations Voting on the House Floor,” with Dave Rohde. Paper presented at the Political Science Research Workshop (Dept of Political Science, USC) and the Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
"The Rise of Party Government in the U.S. Senate," Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.
2006
"Ideology, Electoral Incentives, and Congressional Politics: An Examination of the Republican Class of 1994 in the House." (Abstract) American Politics Research (March, 2006) 34(2):135-158. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2004 annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA. (with Suzanne Gold and David Rohde).
“Turning Theory to Practice: A Political Scientist Tackles the Hill,” PS: Political Science & Politics (April 2006) 39(2): 382-382
"An Automated Method of Topic-Coding Legislative Speech Over Time with Application to the 105th-108th U.S. Senate," with Kevin M. Quinn, Burt L. Monroe, Michael Colaresi and Dragomir R. Radev. Paper presented at the annual Summer Political Methodology Meeting, Davis, CA.
"The Competitive Effects of Redistricting Approaches: Legislatures, Courts and Commissions over Time," with Jamie Carson. Paper presented at the Restoring Electoral Competitiveness: Research and Remedies for Redistricting Conference at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, April 25, 2006.
"Legislative Rhetoric and Policy Agendas," with Burt Monroe, Kevin Quinn, Michael Colaresi, Dragomir Radev, Steven Abney and Jacob Balazer. Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
"Parties and the Politics of Pork in the U.S. Senate," with Charles Finocchiaro. Presented at the Conference on Party Effects in the U.S. Senate. Washington Duke Inn, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
"Different Votes for Different Folks: Rules, Procedure and Electoral Accountability," with Charles Finocchiaro and Eric Wilk. Presented at the annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA
2005
"A Spatial Analysis of Congressional Redistricting, 2000-2002," Political Analysis (2005) 13(3): 253-260. An earlier version of this project was presented as a poster at the 2004 Summer Political Methodology Meeting, Palo Alto, CA.
"Parties as Procedural Coalitions in Congress: Evidence from Differing Career Tracks." Legislative Studies Quarterly (August, 2005) 30(3): 365-389. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2004 annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA. (with Jamie Carson and Jeffery Jenkins).
“Mixed Electoral Institutions and Legislative Behavior: Rhetoric in the German Bundestag,” with Burt Monroe, Yael Shomer and Vera Troeger. Presented at the annual Meeting of the European Consortium for Political Research, Budapest , Hungary .
"Geography and Individual Campaign Contributions to Congressional Candidates," Presented at the Summer Political Methodology, Tallahassee, FL and the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C.
“Congressional Voting Behavior in Response to Changing District Boundaries,” Presented at the annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago , IL.
“Are Partisan Theories of Agenda Control in the Senate Plausible?,” with Nathan Monroe. Presented at the annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago , IL .
"Out with the Old, In with the New: Redistricting and Individual Campaign Contributions to Congressional Candidates," Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA.
2004
"The Calculus of Concession: Media Coverage and the Dynamics of Winnowing in Presidential Nominations." American Politics Research (2004) 32(3):310-337. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2000 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA. (with Audrey Haynes, Paul-Henri Gurian and Christopher Zorn).
"The Effect of State Redistricting Methods on Electoral Competition in United States House Races." State Politics and Policy Quarterly (2004) 4(4):455-469. (with Jamie Carson).
"Shirking in the Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal." Political Analysis (2004) 12(2):176-179. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2002 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, GA. (with Jamie Carson, Jeffery Jenkins and Ryan Vander Wielen).
"Shirking in the Contemporary Congress Redux." A Political Analysis web-rejoinder to accompany "Shirking in the Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal." (with Jamie Carson and Jeffery Jenkins).
"Direct Primaries and the Openness of the Two-Party System, 1904-1920 " Presented at the annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. Earlier version presented at Midwest, 2004.
"Direct Primaries, Sore Losers, and the Openness of the Two-Party System, 1904-1910" Paper presented at the annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
"The Impact of Congressional Redistricting on Candidate Emergence in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1962- 2002" Paper presented at the annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. (with Jamie Carson, Charles Finocchiaro and David Rohde)
"Comparing the Effects of Legislative, Commission, and Judicial Redistricting Plans on U.S. House Elections, 1972-2002" (Abstract) Paper presented at the annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR. (with Jamie L. Carson)
2003
"The Media, the Campaign and the Message." American Journal of Political Science (2003) 47(2):259-273. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2001 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. (with Julianne Flowers and Audrey Haynes)
"Ranking Political Science Departments: A Social Network Analysis of the Ph.D. Market." Presented at the annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA. (with Jamie Carson and Burt Monroe)
"Modeling Social Network Formation with Applications to the Discipline of Political Science." Presented at the Summer Methodological Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. (with Jamie Carson and Burt Monroe)
"Redistricting, Constituency Influence, and Party Polarization in Congress." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. (with Jamie Carson, Charles Finocchiaro and David Rohde)
2002
"Variations in Party Voting in the House of Representatives, 1953-2000." Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, GA. (with Ryan Vander Wielen and David Rohde)
"The Influence of Media Projections on Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections from 1980-2000." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. (with Ryan Vander Wielen)
2001
"Rules and the Representativeness of Presidential Nominees in the Post-Reform Era." Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA.
