Research

Published and Forthcoming Articles

  • Political Competition and Judicial Independence: How Courts Fill the Void When Legislatures Are Ineffective (with Joshua Boston, Dave Carlson, and JB Duck-May) (Journal of Law and Courts – 2023)(Journal Link) (Ungated Link)
  • Case Selection and Supreme Court Pivots (with Gleason Judd) (Political Science Research and Methods2022) (Journal Link) (Ungated Link)
  • Bureaucrats under Populism (with Massimo Morelli) (Journal of Public Economics – 2021) (Journal Link) (Ungated Link) (CEPR Discussion Paper 14499)
  • Delegation and Political Turnover (Journal of Theoretical Politics – 2020(Journal Link)
  • Delegation to an Overconfident Expert (with Scott Ashworth) (Journal of Politics – 2019) (Journal Link)

Working Papers

  • Electoral Competition with Voting Costs (with Gleason Judd and Reilly Steel) (Link) (Conditionally Accepted – Journal of Politics)
  • Buying Campaign Investments with Policy Concessions (with Dan Alexander)  (Link) (Submitted)
  • Hierarchical Control (with Ian Turner and Chris Li) (Link) (Submitted)
  • Managing Government Hierarchy: Electoral Turnover and Intra-Governmental Cooperation (with Ian Turner and Chris Li) (Link) (Revise and Resubmit – Journal of Theoretical Politics)
  • Policy Bundling and Costly Monitoring (Link)