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PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

The Political Economy of Climate Change Action by Indigenous Nations. Forthcoming at Public Choice.

What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures. With Nicholas O. Howard. Forthcoming at Legislative Studies Quarterly.

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. Accepted at Journal of Public Policy.

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.

Compensation, Opportunity and Information: A Comparative Analysis of Legislative Nonresponse in the American States. With David FortunatoPolitical Research Quarterly, 2017. 

UNDER REVIEW

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

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).

Measuring Native American Access to Representation: An Exploration of Arizona Tribes. with Joseph Dietrich, Melissa Rogers, and Jean Schroedel.

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

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

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.

BOOK PROJECT

Rules of the Game: Legislative Process in the American States. With Nicholas O. Howard.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

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

DORMANT PROJECTS

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