Professor of Politics
Ph.D. 1989, California Institute of Technology; M.S. 1985, California Institute of Technology; A.B. 1982, Harvard University.

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Research Interests:

Methodology, voting behavior, voter turnout, latino voting, campaigns and elections, and specifically the relative impact of the economy and issues on voting.

Selected Works:

Papers

• Who Votes Now? And Does it Matter? (with Jan E. Leighley)
• Class Bias in the U.S. Electorate, 1972-2004 (with Jan E. Leighley).
• The Hispanic Vote in the 2004 Presidential Election: Insecurity and Moral Concerns (with Marisa A. Abrajano and R. Michael Alvarez).
• Unions and Class Bias in the U.S. Electorate, 1964-2004 (with Jan E. Leighley).
• Do Voters Really Care Who Gets What?: Economic Growth, Economic Redistribution, and Presidential Popularity (with Suzanna De Boef)
• A Method for Weighting Survey Samples of Low-Incidence Voters" (with R. Michael Alvarez).
• Race-Based versus Issue Voting: A Natural Experiment: The 2001 City of Los Angeles Elections. (with Marisa Abrajano and R. Michael Alvarez).
• Economics, Entitlements and Social Issues: Voter Choice in the 1996 Presidential Election (with R. Michael Alvarez). (JSTOR access required)
• Economic Conditions and Presidential Elections (with Jennifer R. Niemann).
• Explaining the Gender Gap U.S. Presidential Elections, 1980-1992 (with Carole Chaney and R. Michael Alvarez). (JSTOR access required)
• Explaining the Gender Gap in the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election (with Carole Chaney and R. Michael Alvarez).
• When Politics and Models Collide: Estimating Models of Multi-Party Elections (with R. Michael Alvarez). (JSTOR access required)
• Issues, Economics, and the Dynamics of Multi-Party Elections: The British 1987 General Election (with R. Michael Alvarez and Shaun Bowler).
• Economics, Issues and the Perot Candidacy: Voter Choice in the 1992 Presidential Election (with R. Michael Alvarez).
• Coding Style and Good Computing Practices.

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