Peer-Reviewed Articles​
  • "Questions of Order in the United States Senate: Procedural Uncertainty and the Role of the Parliamentarian." Forthcoming. Social Science Quarterly. with Anthony Madonna and Michael Lynch. 
  • "Candidate Ideology and Electoral Success in Congressional Elections." 2018. Public Choice. 176: 175-192. with Jamie Carson.
  • "The Vice President in the U.S. Senate: Examining the Consequences of Institutional Design." 2018. Congress & the Presidency. 45(2): 145-165. with Michael Lynch, Anthony Madonna, and Mark Owens.
  • "Public Attitudes Toward Presidential Veto Powers" 2018. Research & Politics. 5(1): 1-6. with Joel Sievert.
  • "Institutional Control of Redistricting and the Geography of Representation." 2017. Journal of Politics. 79(2): 722-726. with Michael Crespin, Barry Edwards, and Maxwell Palmer.
  • "Re-evaluating the Effects of Redistricting on Electoral Competition, 1972-2012." 2014. State Politics and Policy Quarterly. 14(2): 162-174. with Jamie Carson and Michael Crespin. 
Book Chapters
  • "Candidate Emergence in the Era of Direct Primaries." 2018. In Handbook of Primary Elections. Robert Boatright, editor. Routledge. with Jamie Carson.
  • "Introduction to Congressional Elections." 2016. In Guide to U.S. Elections 7th ed. Deborah Kalb, editor. Congressional Quarterly Press. with Jamie Carson.
Other Projects in Preparation​​
  • "Examining the Effects of Partisan Redistricting on Candidate Entry Decisions."
  • "House Primary Elections and Their Institutional Influences."
  • "A Reconsideration of Disaster Declarations as an Exercise in Unilateral Power." ​ 
  • "Interbranch Warfare: Senate Amending Process and Restrictive House Rules.'' with Anthony Madonna and Jordan McKissick.
  • "Policymaking by the Executive: Examining the Fate of Presidential Agenda Items." with Jason Byers and Jamie Carson. 
  • "The Rhetoric of Healthcare: A Topic Model of Congressional Speeches, 1944-2012.'' with James E. Monogan III and James Strickland.
  • "Assessing the Rise and Development of the Incumbency Advantage in Congress." with Jamie Carson and Joel Sievert.
  • "Candidates, Competition, and Polarization in U.S. House Elections, 1872-2014." with Jamie Carson, Mark Owens, and Joel Sievert.
  • "Constituent Evaluations of U.S. Senators Over the Electoral Cycle." with Joel Sievert.
  • "Who Gets Blamed When Congress and the President Collide?" with Joel Sievert.