B.S. Carnegie Mellon University; M.A. University of Dayton; M.S. Stanford University; Ph.D. Stanford University
Areas of Expertise
Election politics; term limits; legislative government; statistical methods; political economy
Selected Works
“Term Limits and Pork,” with K W Shotts, Legislative Studies Quarterly , 31:3 (2006) 383-404.
“Black Candidates and Black Voters: Assessing the Impact of Candidate Race on Uncounted Vote Rates,” with J S Sekhon, Journal of Politics , 67:1 (2005) 154-177.
“Government Redistribution in the Shadow of Legislative Elections: A Study of the Illinois Member Initiatives Grant Program,” with B A Theodos, Legislative Studies Quarterly , 24:2 (2004) 287-312.
“Studying Dynamics in Legislator Ideal Points: Scale Matters,” Political Analysis , 12:2 (2004) 182-190.
“Logical Inconsistency in EI-based Second Stage Regressions,” with K W Shotts, American Journal of Political Science , 48:1 (2004) 172-183.
Current Projects
“Assessing Partisan Bias in Voting Technology: The Case of the 2004 New Hampshire Recount;” “Term Limits and Pork”
