Voter Partisanship and the Effect of Distributive Spending on Political Participation.
American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 57, No. 1: 200-217.
Replication Data and Code
The Effect of Electoral Geography on Pork Barreling in Bicameral Legislatures.
American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 54, No. 2: 301-322.
Replication Data and Code
The Law of k/n: The Effect of Chamber Size on Government Spending in Bicameral Legislatures.
American Political Science Review, Vol. 101, No. 4: 657-676.
Replication Data and Code
Unintentional Gerrymandering: Political Geography and Electoral Bias in Legislatures (With Jonathan Rodden).
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 3: 239-269.
Replication Data, Code, and Simulated Districting Maps
Op-Ed: “Don’t Blame the Maps” (New York Times)
Media Reactions: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times.The Washington Post, The Orlando Sentinel, The Washington Monthly, Bloomberg News, The Washington Times.
Federal Employee Unionization and Presidential Control of the Bureaucracy: Estimating and Explaining Ideological Change in Executive Agencies.
Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 101, No. 4: 657-676.
US Federal Bureaucratic Agency-Level Comomon Space Ideology Data
Individual-Level Bureaucratic Common Space Ideology Data
Senate Gate-Keeping, Presidential Staffing of ‘Inferior Offices’ and the Ideological Composition of Appointments to the Public Bureaucracy.
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Vol. 10, No. 4: 5-40.
Replication Data and Code
Participation Without Representation? Senior Opinion, Legislative Behavior, and Federal Health Reform (With Katharine Bradley).
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 39(2): 263-293.
Cutting through the Thicket: Redistricting Simulations and the Detection of Partisan Gerrymanders. (With Jonathan Rodden).
Election Law Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4: 331-345.
The Geographic Targeting of Pork Barrel Earmarks in Bicameral Legislatures.
Revise and Resubmit, State Politics and Policy Quarterly.
Evaluating Partisan Gains from Congressional Gerrymandering: Using Computer Simulations to Estimate the Effect of Gerrymandering in the U.S. House.
Electoral Studies, Vol. 44, No. 4: 329-340.
Replication Data, Code, and Simulated Districting Maps
The Impact of Political Geography on Wisconsin Redistricting: An Analysis of Wisconsin’s Act 43 Assembly Districting Plan.
Election Law Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4: 417-442.
Op-Ed: “Wisconsin Is Misusing My Research to Defend Gerrymandering.” (Time Magazine)
The Race-Blind Future of Voting Rights (with Nicholas Stephanopoulos).
Yale Law Journal,Forthcoming.
Data Files, Replication Code, and Simulated Districting Plans
Online Appendix (PDF, 50 pages)
Democracy’s Denominator (with Nicholas Stephanopoulos).
California Law Review,Forthcoming.
Op-Ed: “The next front in the gerrymandering wars: Which people get counted?” (Washington Post)