Associate Professor
Department of Government
EXPERTISE
American politics and government; political methodology; mathematical modeling
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Elections, fiscal policy, and federalism in American politics
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Adaptive, Imitative and Evolutionary Processes that Produce Coordination Among American Voters." Prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 3-6, 2003.
(With Jasjeet S. Sekhon) "Robust Estimation and Outlier Detection for Overdispersed Multinomial Models of Count Data." Revise and Resubmit, American Journal of Political Science, 2003.
(With Jasjeet S. Sekhon) "Coordination and Policy Moderation at Midterm." American Political Science Review, March 2002.
(With Jonathan N. Wand, Kenneth W. Shotts, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Michael C. Herron, and Henry E. Brady) "The Butterfly Did It: The Aberrant Vote for Buchanan in Palm Beach County, Florida." American Political Science Review, December 2001.
(With Marc T. Ratkovic and Michael W. Tofias) "Legislative Context, Legislator Quality and Campaign Contributions." Prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House, Chicago, April 19-22, 2001. A previous version of this paper was presented at the Summer Methods Conference, UCLA, July 20-22, 2000.
"Coordination among American Voters with Heterogeneous Expectations." Prepared for delivery at the Annual Public Choice Society Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, March 9-11, 2001.
"Coordination, Moderation, and Institutional Balancing in American Presidential and House Elections." American Political Science Review, March 2000.
(With Jonathan Wand) "The Dynamics of Campaign Contributions in U.S. House Elections." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5, 1999.
(With Jonathan Wand) "Poisson-Normal Dynamic Generalized Linear Mixed Models of U.S. House Campaign Contributions." Paper presented at the Summer Political Methodology Meetings, Texas A&M University, July 15-18, 1999.
"Fiscal Constraints and Electoral Manipulation in American Social Welfare." The American Political Science Review 88.1, March 1994. Pp. 77-94.
