2025
The Revealed Demand for Hard vs. Soft News: Evidence from Italian TV Viewership. Journal of Politics. Link
How Partisan are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records. American Political Science Review. Link
Unpacking Social Capital. Economic Journal. Link
2024
Measuring the Partisan Behaviorof U.S. Newspapers, 1880 to 1980. Journal of Economic History. Link
Parsing Party Polarization in Congress. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Link
Who Runs for Congress? A Study of State Legislators and Congressional Polarization. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Link
2021
Dyadic Representation in the South and Non-South: The Case of Prohibition. Journal of Politics. Link
What Shapes the Quality and Behavior of Government Officials? Institutional Variation in Selection and Retention Methods. Annual Review of Economics. Link
2020
Publicising Malfeasance: When the Local Media Structure Facilitates Electoral Accountability in Mexico. Economic Journal. Link
2019
Primary Elections in the United States. Cambridge University Press. Link
2018
How Newspapers Reveal Political Power. Political Science Research and Methods. Link
Primary Elections and the Provision of Public Goods. Journal of Politics. Link
The Arsenal of Democracy: Production and Politics During WWII. Journal of Public Economics. Link
Leveling the Playing Field: How Campaign Advertising Can Help Non-Dominant Parties. Journal of the European Economic Association. Link
2017
Parties Within Parties: Parties, Factions, and Coordinated Politics, 1900-1980. In Governing in a Polarized Age, Cambridge University Press.
Party Polarization in Legislatures with Office-Motivated Candidates. Quarterly Journal of Economics. Link
2016
Do Judges’ Characteristics Matter? Ethnicity, Gender, and Partisanship in Texas State Trial Courts. American Law and Economics Review. Link
Newspaper Market Structure and Behavior: Partisan Coverage of Political Scandals in the United States from 1870 to 1910. The Journal of Politics. Link
Challenger Quality and the Incumbency Advantage. Legislative Studies Quarterly. Link
Empirical Studies of Media Bias. In Handbook of Media Economics, Elsevier. Link
2015
The Judge, the Politician and the Press: Newspaper Coverage and Criminal Sentencing Across Electoral Systems. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Link
How Much of the Incumbency Advantage Is Due to Scare-Off? Political Science Research and Methods. Link
A Gubernatorial Helping Hand? How Governors Affect Presidential Elections. Journal of Politics. Link
The Balanced U.S. Press. Journal of the European Economic Association. Link
On The Validity Of The Regression Discontinuity Design For Estimating Electoral Effects: New Evidence From Over 40,000 Close Races. American Journal of Political Science. Link
Assessing the External Validity of Election RD Estimates: An Investigation of the Incumbency Advantage. Journal of Politics. Link
Voter Learning in State Primary Elections. American Journal of Political Science. Link
Partisan Imbalance in Regression Discontinuity Studies Based on Electoral Thresholds. Political Science Research and Methods. Link
Information and Wasted Votes: A Study of U.S. Primary Elections. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Link
2014
Primary Elections and the Quality of Elected Officials. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Link
2013
Elections and Reform: The Adoption of Civil Service Systems in the U.S. States. Journal of Theoretical Politics. Link
The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis: Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Link
Testing the Swing Voter Hypothesis Using Federal Spending in the U.S. States. British Journal of Political Science. Link
2012
The Effects of Redistricting on Incumbents. Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy. Link
Gubernatorial Midterm Slumps. American Journal of Political Science. Link
Testing Models of Distributive Politics using Exit Polls to Measure Voters’ Preferences and Partisanship. British Journal of Political Science. Link
When Parties are not Teams: Party Positions in Single Member District and Proportional Representation Systems. Economic Theory. Link
What Happens to Incumbents in Scandals?. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Link
2011
Patronage and Elections in U.S. States. American Political Science Review. Link
Newspaper Coverage of Political Scandals. Journal of Politics. Link
Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers. Journal of Public Economics. Link
Electoral Selection With Parties and Primaries. American Journal of Political Science. Link
Is Private Campaign Finance a Good Thing? Estimates of the Potential Information Benefits. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Link
2010
Press Coverage and Political Accountability. Journal of Political Economy. Link
Party Strength, the Personal Vote, and State Government Spending. American Journal of Political Science. Link
More Democracy: The Direct Primary and Competition in U.S. Elections. Studies in American Political Development. Link
Is Private Campaign Finance a Good Thing? Estimates of the Potential Information Benefits. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Link
Primary Competition and Partisan Polarization in the U.S. Congress. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Link
2009
Distributive Politics with Primaries. Journal of Politics. 2009. Link
Two’s Company, Three’s an Equilibrium: Strategic Voting and Multi-candidate Elections. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Link
Using Multi-Member Districts to Decompose the Incumbency Advantage. American Journal of Political Science. Link
Returns to U.S. Congressional Seats in the Mid-19th Century. The Political Economy of Democracy.
2008
The End of Inequality: One Person, One Vote and the Reshaping of American Politics. W.W. Norton and Company.
State Legislative Elections, 1967-2003: Announcing the Completion of a Cleaned and Newly Updated Dataset. State Politics and Policy Quarterly. Link
The Strength of Issues: Using Multiple Measures to Gauge Preference Stability, Ideological Constraint, and Issue Voting. American Political Science Review. Link
Distributive Politics and the Law of 1/n. Journal of Politics. Link
Interest Groups and the Electoral Control of Politicians. Journal of Public Economics. Link
2007
Do Multi-Member Districts Lead to Free-Riding? Legislative Studies Quarterly. Link
The Incumbency Advantages in U.S. Primary Elections. Electoral Studies. Link
The Decline of Third Party Voting in the United States. Journal of Politics. Link
2006
Television and the Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Elections. Legislative Studies Quarterly. Link
The Orientation of Newspaper Endorsements in U.S. Elections, 1940-2002. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Link
Legislative Effectiveness and Legislative Careers. Legislative Studies Quarterly. Link
Purple America. Journal of Economic Perspectives. Link
Party and Incumbency Cues in Voting: Are They Substitutes? Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Link
Party Control of State Government and the Distribution of Public Expenditures. Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Link
2005
Legislative Bargaining Under Weighted Voting. American Economic Review. Link.
Voting Weights and Formateur Advantages in Formation of Coalition Governments. American Journal of Political Science. Link
Unrepresentative Information: The Case of Newspaper Reporting on Campaign Finance. Public Opinion Quarterly. Link
Why Roll Calls? A Model of Position Taking in Legislatures. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. Link
Estimating the Distribution of Voter Preferences using Partially Aggregated Voting Data. The Political Methodologist. Link
2004
Reapportioment and Party Realignment in the American States. University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Link
Using Term Limits to Estimate Incumbency Advantages When Officeholders Retire Strategically. Legislative Studies Quarterly. Link
Did Firms Profit from Soft Money? Election Law Journal. Link
2003
Roll Calls, Party labels, and Elections. Political Analysis. Link
Bargaining in Bicameral Legislatures: When and Why Does Malapportionment Matter? American Political Science Review. Link
Why Is There So Little Money in U.S. Politics? Journal of Economic Perspectives. Link
2002
Equal Votes, Equal Money: Court Ordered Redistricting and the Distribution of Public Expenditures in the American States. American Political Science Review. Link
Are PAC Contributions and Lobbying Linked? New Evidence from the 1995 Lobby Disclosure Act. Business and Politics. Link
An Informational Rationale for Political Parties. American Journal of Political Science. Link
The Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Elections: An Analysis of State and Federal Offices, 1942-2000. Election Law Journal. Link
2001
The Effects of Party and Preferences on Congressional Roll Call Voting. Legislative Studies Quarterly. Link
Estimating Party Influence on Congressional Roll Call Voting: Regression Coefficients vs Classification Success. American Political Science Review. Link
Candidate Positioning in U.S. House Elections. American Journal of Political Science. Link
2000
Valence Politics and Equilibrium in Spatial Election Models. Public Choice. Link
Majority-Rule Bargaining and the Under Provision of Public Investment Goods. Journal of Public Economics. Link
Estimating Party Influence on Congressional Roll-Call Voting. American Journal of Political Science. Link
Soft Money, Hard Money, and Strong Parties. Columbia Law Review. Link
Old Voters, New Voters, and the Personal Vote: Using Redistricting to Estimate the Incumbency Advantage. American Journal of Political Science. Link
1999
Comparing Interest Group Scores Across Time and Chambers Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress. American Political Science Review. Link
Money and Institutional Power. Texas Law Review. Link
1997
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes. Journal of Political Economy. Link
Linear Probability Models of the Demand for Attributes with an Empirical application to Estimating the Preferences of Legislators. Rand Journal of Economics. Link
1996
Constituency Preferences: California ballot Propositions, 1974-1990. Legislative Studies Quarterly. Link
Interest Group Politics Under Majority Rule. Journal of Public Economics. Link
Buying Supermajorities. American Political Science Review. Link
Equilibrium and Efficiency in an Organized Vote Market. Public Choice. Link
1995
Political Parties and the Distribution of Federal Outlays. American Journal of Political Science. Link
Comparing Committee and Floor Preferences. Legislative Studies Quarterly. Link
1994
Safe Seats, Marginal Seats, and Party Platforms: The Logic of Platform Differentiation. Economics and Politics. Link
Are Rents Fully Dissipated, Reprinted in The Economic Analysis of Rent-Seeking.
1993
The Market for Campaign Contributions: Evidence for the U.S. Senate 1980-1986. Economics and Politics. Link
Are Rents Fully Dissipated? Public Choice. Link
1992
Political Payoffs and the Electoral Advantages of Incumbency. Mathematical and Computer Modelling. Link
Artificial Extremism in Interest Group Ratings. Legislative Studies Quarterly. Link
Long-Term Investing in Politicians, or Give Early, Give Often. Journal of Law and Economics. Link
Committee Power, Structure-Induced Equilibria, and Roll Call Voting. American Journal of Political Science. Link
1991
On Buying Legislators. Economics and Politics. Link
1990
Campaign Contributions as Investments: The U.S. House of Representatives 1980-1986. Journal of Political Economy. Link
Resource Allocation in Multiparty Elections. American Journal of Political Science. Link
1989
Election Goals and the Allocation of Campaign Resources. Econometrica. Link
Political Geography and Interest Group Power. Social Choice and Welfare. Link
1988
Fairness, Self-Interest, and the Politics of the Progressive Income Tax. Journal of Public Economics. Link