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PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Measuring Voter Equity at the Local Level. With Joseph Dietrich, Melissa Rogers, and Jean Schroedel. Election Law Journal. Forthcoming.

Lights Out: Political and Economic Determinants of Electricity Shutoffs in the United States. With Srinivas Parinandi and Katherine Sevin. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2025.

The Political Economy of Climate Change Action in Indigenous Country. Public Choice, 2024.

What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures. With Nicholas O. Howard. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2024.
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Towards a Theory of Minority-Party Influence in the U.S. Congress: Whip Counts, Amendment Votes, and Minority Leverage in the House. With Jeffery A. Jenkins and Nathan W. Monroe. Journal of Public Policy, 2023.
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Hurdles to Inference: The Demographic Correlates of Survey Breakoff and Shirking. With David Fortunato and Matt Hibbing. Social Science Quarterly, 2022

Allocating Costly Influence in Legislatures. With David Fortunato and Nathan W. Monroe. Journal of Politics, 2022.
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Compensation, Opportunity and Information: A Comparative Analysis of Legislative Nonresponse in the American States. With David FortunatoPolitical Research Quarterly, 2017. 
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UNDER REVIEW

When Process Becomes Power: Rules, Parties, and Legislative Effectiveness. With Nicholas O. Howard.

WORKING PAPERS

The Ties That Bind Us: Exploring the Financial Relationship between Native American Tribes and the U.S. Federal Government. With NR Brouwer (Graduate Student, University of California, Merced).

Who Represents the Representatives? How Identity and Partisanship Shape Congressional Staff Diversity. With Mathew Uttermark.

Surveying the Institutional and Political Landscape of State Electric Vehicle Subsidies. With Srinivas Parinandi.

What Women Want: The Role of Committee Request Procedures on Committee Assignments.

Overburdened or Underutilized: An Examination of Women’s Committee Assignments in State Legislatures.

The Effect of the Information Environment on Party Cohesion: Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures.

Debate and Legislative Productivity in American State Legislatures. With Nicholas O. Howard.

The Effect of Legislative Rules Throughout the Policy Making Process: An Examination of State Legislatures. With Nicholas O. Howard.

The Role of the Economy in the Assignment of Committee Seats to Minority Party Members.

It’s Complicated: The Impact of Legislator Gender on Bill Complexity. With Mary A. Kroeger.

BOOK PROJECT

Legislative Process in the American States. With Nicholas O. Howard.