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(2021). How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior?. American Political Science Review.

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(2020). Universal Vote-by-Mail Has No Impact on Partisan Turnout or Vote Share. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(25): 14052–14056.

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(2019). How Newspapers Reveal Political Power. In Political Science Research and Methods 7(4):661-678.

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(2019). Wealth, Slaveownership, and Fighting for the Confederacy: An Empirical Study of the American Civil War. American Political Science Review 113(3):658-673.

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(2018). Who Punishes Extremist Nominees? Candidate Ideology and Turning Out the Base in US Elections. American Political Science Review 112(3):509-524.

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(2017). The Majority-Party Disadvantage: Revising Theories of Legislative Organization. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 12(3):269-300.

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(2017). How Divisive Primaries Hurt Parties: Evidence From Near-Runoffs. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 12(3).

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(2017). Obstacles to Estimating Voter ID Laws’ Effect on Turnout. Journal of Politics 80 (3).

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(2017). How Do Interest Groups Seek Access to Committees?. American Journal of Political Science. forthcoming.

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(2016). The Elusive Quest for Convergence. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 11(1).

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(2015). Information and Wasted Votes: A Study of U.S. Primary Elections. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 10(4):433-459.

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(2015). Congressional seniority and pork: A pig fat myth?. European Journal of Political Economy 40(A):42-56.

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(2015). How Much of the Incumbency Advantage is Due to Scare-Off?. Political Science Research and Methods 3(3):493-514.

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(2015). Long-Term Consequences of Election Results. British Journal of Political Science forthcoming.

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(2014). On the Validity of the Regression Discontinuity Design for Estimating Electoral Effects: New Evidence from Over 40,000 Close Races. American Journal of Political Science 59(1):259-274.

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