WORKING  PAPER  SITES  OF  POLITICAL  SCIENCE
American Politics

 
*Category placement is based on papers actually online rather than the author's research interests.
 
Craig Albert
Seton Hall.  Periodical titles include
"The Coming Wars in (Name Your State): How Jesse Ventura Could Change the Results of the Presidential Election";
"A Short Note on Electoral College Majorities: Could There Be A Bush-Lieberman Administration?";  and
"How To End the Electoral Stalemate? With a Bush-Lieberman Administration."
 
Founders' Constitution
Multiple editors, University of Chicago.  Online book.
Topics include Bill of Rights and the Constitution, which are explained with fundamental and historical documents or court cases.
 
Hadley Arkes
Amherst College.  Scroll to the bottom of the page.  Periodical titles include
"Testimony On the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2001 -- Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, July 12, 2001";
"Santorum Pulls the Trigger: Rejecting the right to have a dead child";  and
"Day of Infamy: But the struggle must continue - with legislation to save babies who survive abortion."
 
Michael Bailey
Georgetown University.  Titles include
"Ideal Point Estimation with a Small Number of Votes: A Random Effects Approach."
 
Larry Bartel
Princeton University.  Titles include
"Presidential Vote Models: A Recount."
 
Marco Battaglini
Princeton University.  Titles include
"Legislative Organization with Imperfectly Informed Committees";
"Multiple Referrals and Multidimensional Cheap Talk";
"Trust, Coordination, and The Industrial Organization of Political Activism";
"Self-control in Peer Groups";  and
"Moral Hazard in Teams with Vector Outputs."
Paul Beck
Ohio State University.  Titles include
"The Social Calculus of Voting: Media, Organization, and Interpersonal Influences on Presidential Choices";  and
"Encouraging Political Defection: The Role of Personal Discussion Networks in Partisan Desertions to the Opposition Party and Perot Votes in 1992."
 
Joel David Bloom
University of Oregon.  Titles include
"A Test Of A Combined RDD/Registration-Based Sampling Model In Oregon's 2004 National Election Pool Survey: Lessons From A Dual Frame RBS/RDD Sample" (2005);
"A Probability-Theory Based Test of the Reliability of Election Polls," with Jennie Pearson" (2005);
"Methodological Challenges in Polling a Vote-by-mail Election";
"Reliable Compared to What? Empirical Tests of the Accuracy of Election Polls" (2002);
"Still Here! The Persistence of Racism in Public Opinion, Voting and Public Policy in the United States" (2004);  and
"The Principle-Policy Puzzle Revisited II: Raw Racism, Symbolic Racism, and Ideological Conservatism, 1990-2000" (2003).
 
Robert Boatright
Swarthmore University.  Scroll to the middle of the page.  Titles include
"Partisan Politics and Judicial Independence";
“Survey Nonresponse by Candidates: A Choice of Ambiguity?”;
“The Median Voter: Fact or Fiction? The History of a Theoretical Concept”;  and
“Losing Strategies: A Rational Actor Approach to ‘Extremist’ Presidential Campaigns.”
 
Fred Boehmke
University of Iowa.  Titles include
“Disentangling Diffusion: The Effect of Social Learning and Economic Competition on State Policy Innovation and Expansion, With an Application to Indian Gaming”;
“Strategic Voting in Multiparty Elections”;
“Voter Information and Cues in Direct Legislation Settings”;  and
“The Effect of Direct Democracy on the Size and Diversity of State Interest Group Populations.”
 
Tom Brunell
Binghampton University.  Titles include
"Partisan Bias in U.S. Congressional Elections, 1952-1996: Why the Senate is Usually More Republican than the House of Representatives";
"Constructing a Supranational Constitution: Dispute Resolution and Governance in the European Community";
"Explaining Divided U.S. Senate Delegations, 1788-1996: A Realignment Approach";
"A Divided Government Based Explanation for the Decline in Resignations from the U.S. Senate, 1834-1996";
"Avoiding Salience for Unpopular Policies: The Level of the Gasoline Tax in the U.S. States";
"An Integrated Perspective on the Three Potential Sources of Partisan Bias: Malapportionment, Turnout Differences, and the Geographic Distribution of Party Vote Shares";
"Distinguishing Between the Effects of Swing Ratio and Bias on Outcomes in the US Electoral College, 1900-1992";  and
"Explaining the Ideological Differences Between the Two U.S. Senators Elected from the Same State: An Institutional Effects Model."
Daniel Butler
Stanford University.  Titles include
"A Lot More to Do: The Promise and Peril of Panel Data in Political Science" (2004);  and
"Splitting the Difference: What Explains Split-party Delegations in the US Senate" (2005).
 
Tom Carsey
Florida State University.   Titles include
"Party Polarization and Conflict Extension in the American Electorate";
"Party Polarization and Party Structuring of Policy Attitudes: A Comparison of Three NES Panel Studies";
"The Effect of Spending Levels on the Process of Distributive Politics";
"Inter- and Intra-Chamber Differences and the Distribution of Policy Benefits";
"Party Activists and the Ideological Polarization of American Politics: A Dynamic Model";
"Racial Context and Racial Voting in New York City Mayoral Elections Revisited";
"The Causes and Effects of Preferences for Party Government: A New Test of Policy Balancing";  and
"Intergovernmental Distributive Politics and Transportation Spending."
 
Doug Chalmers
 Columbia University.  Titles include
"Civil Society’s Links to Politics: The Importance of Second Level Political Institutions";
"NGOs and the Changing Structure of Mexican Politics";
"What Is It About Associations in Civil Society That Promotes Democracy?";  and
"How Do Civil Society Associations Promote Deliberative Democracy?"
 
Wendy Tam Cho
University of Illinois.  Titles include
"Reassessing the Study of Split-Ticket Voting";
"Strange Bedfellows: Politics, Courts, and Statistics: Statistical Expert Testimony in Voting Rights Cases";
"An Information Theoretic Approach to Ecological Estimation and Inference";
"Some Empirical Evidence on the Impact of Measurement Errors in Making Ecological Inferences";
"Asians-A Monolithic Voting Bloc?";
"Naturalization, Socialization, Participation: Immigrants and (Non-) Voting";
"Tapping Motives and Dynamics Behind Campaign Contributions: Insights from the Asian American Case";
"Contagion Effects and Ethnic Contribution Networks";
"Foreshadowing Strategic Pan-Ethnic Politics: Asian American Campaign Finance Behavior in Varying Multicultural Contexts";
"Asian Americans as the Median Voters: An Exploration of Attitudes and Voting Patterns on Ballot Initiatives," in Chang, Gordon H., ed., Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects (Stanford University Press, 2001);
"Candidates, Donors, and Voters in California's First Blanket-Primary Elections," in Cain, Bruce E. and Elisabeth R. Gerber, eds., Voting at the Political Fault Line: California's Experiment with the Blanket Primary (University of California Press, 2002);  and
"Crossover Voting Before the Blanket: Primaries versus Parties in California History," in Cain, Bruce E.  and Elisabeth R. Gerber, eds., Voting at the Political Fault Line: California's Experiment with the Blanket Primary (University of California Press, 2002).
 
John Coleman
University of Wisconsin.   Titles include
"Institutional Incentives for Protection: The American Use of Voluntary Export Restraints";
"State Formation and the Decline of Political Parties: American Parties in the Fiscal State";
"Party Organizational Strength and Public Support for Parties";
"The Decline and Resurgence of Congressional Party Conflict";
"The Importance of Being Republican: Forecasting Party Fortunes in House Midterm Elections";
"Congressional Campaign Spending and the Quality of Democracy";
"The Distribution of Campaign Spending Benefits Across Groups";
"Student Attitudes Toward Instructional Technology in the Large Introductory U.S. Government Course";
"Bipartisan Order and Partisan Disorder in Postwar Trade Policy";
"Clinton and the Party System in Historical Perspective," in The Postmodern Presidency: Bill Clinton's Legacy in U.S. Politics, ed. Steven E. Schier (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000);  and
"Party Images and Candidate-Centered Campaigns in 1996: What's Money Got to Do with It?" in The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties, 3rd ed., eds. John C. Green and Daniel M. Shea, pp. 337-54 (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).
 
Richard Conley
University of Florida.  Scroll to the middle of the page.  Title include
"President Clinton and the Republican Congress, 1995-2000: Vetoes, Veto Threats, and Legislative Strategy";
"Congress, the Presidency, Information Technology, and the Internet: Policy Entrepreneurship at Both Ends of Pennsylvania Avenue";  and 
"George Bush, Divided Government, and 'Private' Veto Threats in the 102nd Congress: An Archival Analysis."
 
Paul Djupe
Denison University.  Titles include
"No Hoops: An Integrative Theory of Parishioner Attitude Formation";
"The Political Voice of Clergy";  and
"The Timing and Impact of Negative Campaigning: Evidence from the 1998 Senatorial Primaries."
 
Todd Donovan
Western Washington University.  Scroll to the bottom of the page.  Titles include
"Art for Democracy's Sake: Group Membership and Political Engagement in Europe";
"When Might Institutions Change? Elite Support for Direct Democracy in Three Nations";
"Minority Representation, Empowerment, and Participation in New Zealand and the United States";
"Election Reform and Direct Democracy: Campaign Finance Regulations in the American States";
"Why do People Like their State and Local Government more than the Federal Government?";
"Do Voters Have a Cue? TV ads as a Source of Information in Referendum Voting";  and
"O, Other Where art Thou? Support for Proportional Representation in the United States."
 
George Edwards
Texas A&M. Titles include
"Can the President Focus the Public's Attention?" (2001);
"George Bush and Public Opinion" (2000);  and
"Campaigning is Not Governing: Bill Clinton's Rhetorical Presidency" (1999).
 
Larry Evans
William and Mary College. Titles include
"The Politics of Congressional Reform" (2005);
"Tax Cuts, Contras, and Partisan Influence in the U.S. House" (2005);
"Holds, Legislation, and the Senate Parties" (2005);
"Cracking the Whip in the U.S. House: Majority Dominance or Party Balancing?" (2004);
"The House Whip Process and Party Theories of Congress: An Exploration" (2003);  and
"The Institutional Context of Veto Bargaining" (2003).
 
Timothy Feddersen
Northwestern University.  Scroll to the middle of the page.  Titles include
"Deliberation and Voting Rules" (2002);
"A Theory of Participation in Elections with Ethical Voters"(2002);  and
"Abstention in Elections with Asymmetric Information and Diverse Preferences" (1998).
 
Rick Feiock
Florida State University.   Titles include
"Lines and Color: The Role of Race in Local Government Annexation Decisions";
"Analyzing State Government Economic Performance";
"State Rules and Local Choices";
"Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice: An Exploration of Local Governance";
"The Consequences of State Support for Higher Education on Economic Development";
"Public Investments and State and Local Economic Development: Institutional, Human Capital, and Social Capital Theories";
"District Representation, Economic Development, and the Law of N/1: How Constituency Diversity Shapes Political Choices";
"State Rules and City Property Taxes: The Impact of State Tax and Expenditure Limitations on Local Property Tax Dependence";
"Estimating Political, Fiscal and Economic Impacts of State Mandates: A Pooled Time Series Analysis of Local Planning and Growth Policy in Florida";
"Explaining Patterns of Short-Term Borrowing Among Large Cities";
"State Appropriations for Higher Education and Economic Development";
"Incentives, Entrepreneurs, and Boundary Change: A Collective Action Approach";
"City County Consolidation: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis Approach";
"Sustainable Development: Environmental Protection and Economic Development in the American States";
"An Economic Theory of Local Boundaries and Boundary Change";
"Contracting and Sector Choice for the Delivery of Local Health and Human Service: A Transaction Cost Approach";
"A Quasi-Market Theory of Local Development Competition";
"Leadership Turnover, Transaction Costs, and External City Service Delivery";
"Private Incentives and Academic Entrepreneurs: The Promotion of City/County Consolidation";
"The Adoption of State Economic Development Programs";
"Form of Government, Administrative Organization and Local Economic Development Policy";  and
"The Impact of Leadership Turnover on Local Borrowing."
 
Charles Finocchiaro
University at Buffalo. Titles include
"Speaker David Henderson and the Partisan Era of the U.S. House";
"Linking Congressional Districts Across Time: Redistricting and Party Polarization in Congress" (2004);
"Revisiting the Partisan Era of the U.S. House: A Critique of Joseph G. Cannon: Majoritarian from Illinois" (2001);
"Controlling Turf: The Partisan Use of Multiple Referral and Special Rules" (2001);  and
"The Hazards of Incumbency: An Event History Analysis of Congressional Careers" (2001).
 
Brian Fogarty
University of North Carolina. Titles include
"Determining Economic News Coverage";
"Issue Attitudes and Survey Continuity across Interview Mode in the 2000 NES";  and
"Presidential Campaigning in the 2002 Congressional Elections" (2004).
 
Scott Frisch and Sean Kelly
Scott Frisch, California State University at Bakersfield, and Sean Kelly, Niagara University.  Titles include
"Structuring Choice: Comparing Democratic and Republican Committee Requests and Assignments in the 97th Congress";
"Voting Power, Representation, and Reform in the Republican Committee Assignment Process";
"Inside the Black Box: Coalitions and Voting in the Republican Committee on Committees";
"The Other Half of the Puzzle: Republican Committee Assignments in the House: 1965-1991";
"Women’s Committee Preferences and Committee Assignments in the U.S. House";
"House Committee Assignment Requests and Constituency Characteristics";
"House Committee Assignments and Public Policy: Committee Theories Reconsidered";
"Committee Politics in Black and White: House Committee Assignment Requests Of African American Members";  and
"Distributive Theory Reconsidered: Federal Spending and Committee Assignments Revisited."
 
Archon Fung
Harvard University.   Titles include
"Street Level Democracy";
"Making Rights Real: Roe's Impact on Abortion Access";
"Extended Condorcet and Experimentalist Models of Epistemic Democracy";
"Stepping Up Labor Standards";
"Deepening Democracy: Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance";
"Accountable Autonomy: Toward Empowered Deliberation in Chicago Schools and Policing";
"Ratcheting Labor Standards";  and
"After Backyard Environmentalism."
 
Andrew Grossman
Albion College.  Titles include
"Balancing Civil Liberties and Civil Defense in an Age of Super-Terrorism" (2002);  and
"Antebellum State Building: War Making and the Polk Administration" (2001).
 
Kenneth Janda
Northwestern University.   Book title includes
"Political Parties: A cross-national survey."
 
Jeffery Jenkins
Michigan State University.   Titles include
"Order from Chaos: The Transformation of the Committee System in the House, 1816-1822";
"Committee Assignments as Sidepayments: the Interplay of Leadership and Committee Development in the Era of Good Feeling";
"The Institutional Origins of the Republican Party: A Spatial Voting Analysis of the House Speakership Election of 1855-56";
"Investigating the Incidence of Killer Amendments in Congress";
"Examining the Bonding Effects of Party: A Comparative Analysis of Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. and Confederate Houses";
"Why No Parties?: Investigating the Disappearance of Democrat-Whig Divisions in the Confederacy";  and
"Examining the Robustness of Ideological Voting: Evidence from the Confederate House of Representatives."
 
Kristin Kanthak
University of Arizona.   Titles include
"Exclusive Committee Assignments in the 20th Century House of Representatives";
"Leadership PAC contributions in the U.S. House of Representatives";
"Committee Assignments as an Incentive for Party Loyalty";  and
"Minding Payoffs and Cues: Measuring Voter Accuracy in Evaluating Elected Officials."
 
Jonathan Katz
California Institute of Technology.  Titles include
"Auctioning off the Agenda: Bargaining in Legislatures with Endogenous Scheduling."
 
Philip Klinkner
Hamilton College.  Titles include
"Court and Country in American Politics: The Democratic Party and the 1994 Election," in Philip A. Klinkner, ed., Midterm: The 1994 Elections in Perspective (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996).
 
Morgan Kousser
California Institute of Technology.  Scroll to the middle of the page.  Titles include
"American Prospect Symposium, Round 1";
"Racial Injustice and the Abolition of Justice Courts in Monterey County";
"Estimating the Partisan Consequences of Redistricting Plans-Simply";
"Ecological Inference from Goodman to King";  and
"The Supreme Court and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction."
 
Dean Lacy
Ohio State University.  Titles include
"A Theory of Nonseparable Preferences in Survey Responses";  and
"Downsian Voting and the Separation of Powers in the 1998 Ohio and Texas Gubernatorial Elections."
 
Chris Lawrence
Millsaps College.  Titles include
"Political Sophistication and Conditional Strategic Behavior in U.S. Presidential Elections" (2005);
"Iraq, 9/11, and the War" (2004);
"Impeaching the President: The Impact of Constituency Support on a Salient Issue" (2000);
"Regime Stability and Presidential Government: The Legacy of Authoritarian Rule, 1951-90" (2001);
"Heuristics, Hillary Clinton, and Health Care Reform" (2002);
"Deference or Dissent? Congress Responds to U.S. v. Eichman" (2001);  and
"The Evolution of the Normal Vote in the 1990s" (2001).
 
Brad Lockerbie
University of Georgia.  Titles include
 "Egocentric or Sociotropic?"
 
Ben Lockwood
University of Warwick.  Titles include
"When are Plurality Voting Games Dominance-Solvable?" (2000);
"Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents?" (2000);  and
"Candidate Entry, Screening, and the Political Budget Cycle" (2000).
 
Michael Martinez
University of Florida.  Titles include
“Core Values, Value Conflict and Citizens’ Ambivalence about Gay Rights”;
"Have Turnout Effects Really Declined? Testing the Partisan Implications of Marginal Voters";
"Turnout Effects on the Composition of the Electorate: A Multinomial Logit Simulation of the 2000 Presidential Election";
"The Effects of Turnout on Vote Choice: A Simulation Based on Two Multinomial Models";
"Information and Voting: A Panel Study";
"Assessing the Impact of the National Voter Registration Act on Midterm Elections";  and
"Political Trust and Third Party Voting in Canada, 1984-1997."
 
John McIver
University of Colorado.  Titles include
"Stability and Change in State Electorates, Carter Through Clinton";  and
"Public Opinion and Public Policy in Temporal Perspective: A View from the States."
 
Walter Mebane
Cornell University.  Scroll to the middle of the page.  Titles include
"Adaptive, Imitative and Evolutionary Processes that Produce Coordination Among American Voters";
"Robust Estimation and Outlier Detection for Overdispersed Multinomial Models of Count Data";
"Presidential Pork Barrel Politics";
"Coordination and Policy Moderation at Midterm";
"Coordination among American Voters with Heterogeneous Expectations";
"Legislative Context, Legislator Quality and Campaign Contributions";
"Coordination, Moderation, and Institutional Balancing in American Presidential and House Elections";
"The Dynamics of Campaign Contributions in U.S. House Elections";
"Poisson-Normal Dynamic Generalized Linear Mixed Models of U.S. House Campaign Contributions";  and
"Congressional Campaign Contributions, District Service and Electoral Outcomes in the United States: Statistical Tests of a Formal Game Model with Nonlinear Dynamics," in Political Complexity: Nonlinear Models of Politics, Diana Richards, ed. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).
 
Worth Miller
Southwest Missouri State University.  Titles include
"Farmers and Third-Party Politics in Late Nineteenth Century America."
 
Timothy Nokken
University of Houston.  Titles include
"Party Loyalty and Midterm Elections: Assessing the Effect of Presidential Support on Electoral Success, 1954-1994";
"Roll Call Votes as Exercises in Position Taking: Congressional Reactions to Normal Trade Relation Status for China, 1990-1999";  and
"Ideological Congruence Versus Electoral Success: Distribution of Party Organization Contributions in Senate Elections 1990-1998."
 
David Primo
University of Rochester.   Titles include
"Rethinking Political Bargaining: Policymaking With a Single Proposer"; 
"Budgetary Reform and Formal Modeling: A Comment on Gabel and Hager"; 
"Public Opinion and Campaign Finance: Reformers Versus Reality";  and 
"Corporate PAC Campaign Contributions in Perspective."
 
David Redlawsk
University of Iowa.  Titles include
"What Voters Do: The Implications of Voter Information Search Strategies";
"Advantages and Disadvantages of Cognitive Heuristics in Political Decision Making";
"Implications of Motivated Reasoning for Voter Information Processing";  and
"The Role of Memory in Voter Decision Making."
 
Brian Schaffner 
American University. Titles include
"Priming Gender: Campaigning on Women's Issues in the U.S. Senate" (2005);
"A New Look at the Republican Bias in Nonpartisan Elections";
"Committee Representativeness in the Absence of Parties";  and
"Buy One, Get One Free? The Impact of Advertising on Senate Campaign Coverage."
 
Kevin Scott
Ohio State University.  Titles include
"Modeling Mistrust: An Event History Analysis of Term Limits for State Legislators";  and
"Judicial Behavior: A Cross-Jurisdictional Analysis."
 
Jasjeet Sekhon
Harvard University.   Titles include
"Overvoting and Representation: An examination of overvoted presidential ballots in Broward and Miami-Dade counties."
 
Steve Shaffer
Mississippi State University.  Titles include
"From Exclusion to Inclusion: Evolution of Racial Politics in Southern Party Systems, Especially Mississippi";
"Return of the Solid South? Exploring Partisan Realignment in Mississippi";
"Racism or Conservatism: Explaining Rising Republicanism in the Deep South";
"Delayed Realignment in the South: The Case of Mississippi";
"Mississippi Elections in the 1990s: Ideology and Performance";
"Perceptions and Attitudes of Delta Residents," in A Social and Economic Portrait of the Mississippi Delta;  and
"The 1988 Elections in Mississippi," in Laurence Moreland, Robert Steed, and Tod Baker's The 1988 Presidential Election in the South: Continuity amidst Change in Southern Party Politics (Praeger/Greenwood, 1991).
 
Charles Shipan
University of Iowa.  Titles include
"Delaying Justice(s): A Duration Analysis of Supreme Court Confirmations";
"Does Divided Government Increase the Size of the Legislative Agenda?";
"Optimal Design for Collective Medical Decision-making: A Social Choice Approach to Expert Consensus Panels"; 
"Legislators, Agencies, and Contemporaneous Influence: The Case of FDA Monitoring Activities";
              "Choosing When to Choose: Explaining the Duration of Presidential Supreme Court Nomination Decisions";
              "A War of Words: Explaining the Duration of the Filibuster in the U.S. Senate, 1919-1993";
              "Bottom-Up Federalism: The Diffusion of Antismoking Policies from U.S. Cities to States";
              "Diffusion, Preemption, and Venue Shopping: The Spread of Local Antismoking Policies";
              "Continuity and Change: The Evolution of Law";  and
               "Parties, Committees, and the Control of Environmental Policy."
 
Kenneth Shott
Stanford University.  Titles include
"A Signaling Model of Repeated Elections" (2005);
"Selecting Representatives Who Will Bring Home the Bacon";
"Logical Inconsistency in King-based Ecological Regressions";
"The Conditional Nature of Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion";  and
"Does Racial Redistricting Cause Conservative Policy Outcomes? Policy Preferences of Southern Representatives in the 1980s and 1990s."
 
Janet Box-Steffensmeier
Ohio State University.   Titles include
"The Timing of Voting Decisions in Presidential Campaigns";
"Information, Heterogeneity, and Individual Party Identification";
"The Long Campaign: How Senators' Choices and Constituency Views Through the Term Affect Electoral Success";
"The Timing of Campaign Contributions";
"Duration Models for Repeated Events";
"Political Representation and the Electoral Connection";  and
"Structure, Strategy, and Success: Legislative Effectiveness in the U.S. House of Representatives."
 
Jennifer Steen
Boston College. Titles include
"The Senate's Other Revolving Door: Candidate Quality, the Incumbency Advantage, and the Electoral Fortunes of Appointed Senators";
"Walking Both Sides of the Street: PAC Contributions and Political Competition";  and
"Surge-and-Decline and the 2002 Elections."
 
Charles Stewart
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   Titles include
"Voting Technology and Uncounted Votes in the United States";
"Residual Votes Attributable to Technology: An Assessment of the Reliability of Existing Voting Equipment";
"Committee Hierarchy and Assignments in the U.S. Congress: Testing Theories of Legislative Organization, 1789-1946";
"Out in the Open: The Emergence of Viva Voce Voting in House Speakership Elections";
"Speakership Elections and Control of the U.S. House: 1839-1859";
"Sophisticated Behavior and Speakership Elections: The Elections of 1849 and 1855-1856";
"The Development of the Senate Committee System, 1789--1879";
"Architect or Tactician? Henry Clay and the Institutional Development of the U.S. House of Representatives";  and
"Order from Chaos: The Transformation of the Committee System in the House, 1810-1822."
 
James Stimson
University of North Carolina.   Titles include
"The Dimensionality of Issues in Two Party Politics";
"Party Proximity to the Median Voter in U.S. Presidential Elections";
"The Least Dangerous Branch Revisited: New Evidence on Supreme Court Responsiveness to Public Preferences";
"A Model of American Macro Politics";
"American Macro Politics: A System Model";  and
"American Politics: The Model."
 
Ahmer Tarar
Texas A&M University.  Titles include
"Bargaining Power, the Schelling Conjecture, and Fast-Track Trade Negotiating Authority" (2004);  and
"A Unified Theory and Test of Extended Immediate Deterrence" (2004).
 
Sean Theriault
University of Texas.  Titles include
"Parties-Care-about-the-Electorate? Federalists and Republicans during the Louisiana Purchase" (2002);
"Getting on the Legislative Agenda" (2002);
"Where do Bills Fail in Congress";
"The Case of the Vanishing Moderates: Party Polarization in the Modern Congress"
"Career Ceilings and Women's Retirement from the U.S. Congress: Will She Stay or Will She Go";  and
"Women in the U.S. Congress: From Entry to Exit" (2004).
 
Greg Thorson
University of Minnesota at Morris.   Titles include
"Politics and Policy in the 103rd and 104th Congresses: Evaluating the Effects of Divided Government";
"Small Schools Under Siege: Evidence of Resource Inequality in Minnesota Schools";
"Searching for Solutions: The Community Vision Process in Herman, MN";
"Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress";
"Towards Stability in Presidential Forecasting: The Development of a Multiple Indicator Model";
"Divided Government and the Passage of Partisan Legislation, 1947-1990";  and
"Anti-Incumbency and the 1992 Elections: The Changing Face of Presidential Coattails."
 
Michael Ting
Columbia University.  Scroll to the bottom of the page.  Titles include
"A Strategic Theory of Bureaucratic Redundancy";
"A Theory of Jurisdictional Assignments in Bureaucracies";
"Legislative Bargaining Under Weighted Voting";
"Bargaining in Bicameral Legislatures: When and Why Does Malapportionment Matter?";
"Roll-Calls, Party Labels, and Elections";
"An Informational Rationale for Political Parties";  and
"A Behavioral Model of Turnout."
 
Eric Uslaner
University of Maryland.  Titles include
"Is Washington Really the Problem?";
"Is the Senate More Civil Than the House?";
"The Moral Foundations of Trust";
"Inequality, Trust, and Civic Engagement";
"Civil Society Development on the Black Sea: Social Involvement in the Republic of Moldova and Romania";
"Social Capital, Television, and the ‘Mean World’: Trust, Optimism, and Civic Participation";
"Strong Institutions, Weak Parties: The Paradox of Canadian Political Parties";
"The Democratic Party and Free Trade: An Old Romance Restored";
"Voluntary Organization Membership in Canada and the United States";  and
"Democracy and Social Capital," in Mark Warren, ed., Democracy and Trust (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
 
Gregory Wawro
Columbia University.    Titles include
"Is All Politics and Economics Local? National Elections and Local Economic."
Data include
Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives  (University of Michigan Press, 2000);  and
"A Panel Probit Analysis of Campaign Contributions and Roll Call Votes."
 
Rick Wilson
Rice University.  Titles include
"Conditional trust: sex, race and facial expressions in a trust game" (2002);
"Madison at the First Congress: Institutional Design and Lessons from the Continental Congress, 1780-1783" (2001);
"Social Learning in a Social Hierarchy: An Experimental Study" (2000);
"The Value of a Smile: Game Theory with a Human Face" (1999);
"Why Fairness?: Facial expressions, evolutionary psychology, and the emergence of fairness in simple bargaining games" (1999);
"Here's the Party: Group Effects and Partisan Advantage in the US Congress" (1999);
"The Human Face of Game Theory" (1998);
"Leaders, Followers, and the Institutional Problem of Trust" (1999);  and
"Partisanship and Electoral Reform: Change in Congressional Cohesion, 1877-1932."
 
Nicholas Winter
Cornell University.  Titles include
"Gendered and Regendered: Public opinion and Hillary Rodham Clinton" (2000).
 
Jennifer Wolak
Colorado University.  Titles include
"How the Emotions of Public Policy Affect Citizen Engagement, Public Deliberation, and the Quality of Electoral Choice (2003);
"Emotions, Information, and Political Cooperation" (2001);
"Value Conflict and Ambivalence in Party Identification";
"Affective Moderators of On-Line and Memory-Based Processing in Candidate Evaluation";
"Strategic Retirements: Explaining Aggregate Level Membership Change in the U.S. Congress";
"A Bicameral Perspective on Legislative Retirement: The Case of the Senate with Jeffrey Bernstein";
"Much of Politics is Still Local: Multi-State Lobbying in State Interest Communities";  and
"Source Cues and the Construction of Political Arguments (Midwest 2002) with Brian Fogarty."
 
Gerald Wright
Indiana University.  Titles include
"The NES and the Forgetful Voter";
"The Meaning of 'Party' in Congressional Roll Call Voting";
"Representation and the Electoral Cycle in U.S. Senate Elections";
"Change and Stability in State Public Opinion, 1977-1999";
"The Influence of Party in State Legislatures";
"Public Opinion and Public Policy in Temporal Perspective: A View from the States";
"Party and Roll Call Voting in the American Legislature";
"Patterns of Constituency-Legislator Policy Congruence in the States";
"Elections and Representation in the U.S. House of Representatives," in David Brady et al, (eds) Continuity and Change in House Elections (Stanford U Press, 2000);  and
"Voters, Issues and Candidates in Congressional Elections," in Dodd and Oppenheimer, Congress Reconsidered 7th ed. (2001).
 
Garry Young
George Washington University.  Titles include
"Representatives and Constituency Efforts: Homestyle Goes Abroad" (1993); 
"Electoral Context and MP Constituency Focus in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom";  and 
"Presidential Rhetoric, the Public Agenda, and the End of the Golden Age of Television."
 
John Zaller
University of California.  Titles include
"Politician Prize Fighters: Electoral Selection and Incumbency Advantage";
"Coming to Grips with V.O. Key’s Concept of Latent Opinion";  and
book title
"A Theory of Media Politics: How the Interests of Politicians, Journalists, and Citizens Shape the News."

 

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