Professor of Politics
Ph.D. 1984 (Economics), Tulane University; M.P.A. 1977; B.S. 1976, Louisiana State University.

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Research Interests:

American elections, empirical analysis of formal models of politics, and experimental methods.

Affiliations:

National Science Foundation review panels; editorial boards of the American Political Science Review and Political Analysis.

Fellowships/Honors:

Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftkollegg, July 1, 2008 to January 1, 2009 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 2007-08 Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, 2004-05 National Science Foundation, grant.

Selected Works:

Experimental Methods

• "From Nature to the Lab: Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality" (with Ken Williams)
  
• "Experimentation in Political Science" (with Kenneth C. Williams)
• "Why the Centipede Game is Important for Political Science"

Research on Strategic Voting, Information, and Sequence

• "Let the Experts Decide?  Asymmetric Information, Abstention, and Coordination in Standing Committees"
• "The Effects of Identities, Incentives, and Information on Voting"
• "Information Aggregation and Strategic Abstention in Large Laboratory Elections"
• "The Swing Voter's Curse in the Laboratory"
• "Efficiency, Equity, and Timing in Voting Mechanisms"
• "Proportionality versus Perfectness: Experiments in Majoritarian Bargaining"

Research on the Electoral Process

• "Voter Uncertainty, Political Institutions, and Legislative Turnover"
• "Separation of Powers and Turnout"
• "Delegating Disenfranchisement Decisions"
• "Reaping Political Benefits:  Local Implementation of State and Federal Election Law"
• "Analyzing Elections"
• "All Style and No Substance? The Strategic Calculus of Campaign Advertising"
• "Decisiveness of Contributors' Perceptions in Elections"
• "Primaries and Turnout"

Books

• "Analyzing Elections"
• "Learning by Voting: Sequential Choices in Presidential Primaries and Other Elections"
• "Methods and Models: A Guide to the Empirical Analysis of Formal Models in Political Science"

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