Research Areas
- Congress: Electoral Politics and Institutional Development
- Presidency: Policymaking Powers, Congressional Relations, and Party Politics
- Political Economy: Distributive Politics and Historical Political Economy
Selected Publications
Congressional Elections
- Nationalized Politics. 2024. Oxford University Press, with Jamie L. Carson and Ryan D. Williamson.
- “Out-of-State Donors and Nationalized Politics in U.S. Senate Elections.” 2023. The Forum, with Stephanie Mathiasen (TTU Graduate Student).
- "How Filibuster Rhetoric Informs Perceptions of Politicians." Legislative Studies Quarterly, with Kevin Banda.
- “Nationalization in US Senate and Gubernatorial Elections.” 2019. American Politics Research, with Seth McKee.
Presidency
- "Whose Party is it?: Lame Ducks, Presidential Candidates, and Evaluations of the Party." 2022. American Politics Research, with Victor Hinojosa (TTU Graduate Student)
- "Presidential Strategies in Statements of Administration Policy." 2022. Presidential Studies Quarterly, with Ian Ostrander
- “The Logic of Presidential Signing Statements.” 2013. Political Research Quarterly, with Ian Ostrander
Historical Political Economy
- "Partisanship, Slavery, & the Demise of the National Road." Political Research Quarterly, Forthcoming
- "Committee Politics in the Antebellum Senate." 2021. Congress & the Presidency
Selected Work in Progress
- The Less Responsive Branch?: Politics and Development in the Early US Senate (Book Project)
- "Public Evaluations of Elected Officials' Credit Claiming." with Moriah Harman.
- To be presented at the 2025 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
- "Congress, Railroads, and the Regulator State." with Jamie L. Carson.
- To be presented at the Second Annual Historical Political Economy Conference.