Associate Professor of Politics
B.A. 1994, Cornell; M.A. 1996, Princeton; Ph.D 1999, Princeton
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Research Interests:

American Politics, Political Methodology

Selected Works:

• Enforcement and Compliance in an Uncertain World: An Experimental Investigation (With Eric Dickson and Gregory Huber). Forthcoming (2009), Journal of Politics
  
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• Do the Advantages of Incumbency Advantage Incumbents? (With Dimitri Landa). Forthcoming (2009), Journal of Politics
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• Voter Responses to Challenger Opportunity Costs (With Gregory Huber and Dimitri Landa).Forthcoming (2009), Electoral Studies
  

• Consumption or Investment? On Motivations for Political Giving (With Catherine Hafer and Dimitri Landa). Journal of Politics (2007).
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• Directing Retribution: On the Political Control of Lower Court Judges (With Gregory A. Huber). Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2007)

• Challenger Entry and Voter Learning (With Gregory A. Huber and Dimitri Landa). American Political Science Review (2007)

• Corporate Influence and the Regulatory Mandate (With Catherine Hafer). Journal of Politics (2007)

• The Effect of Electoral Competitiveness on Incumbent Behavior (With Gregory A. Huber). Quarterly Journal of Political Science (May 2007)

• Flexing Muscle: Corporate Political Expenditures as Signals to the Bureaucracy (With Catherine Hafer). American Political Science Review (2005)

• Qualitative Leverage and the Epistemology of Expert Opinion (With Alastair Smith). Political Analysis (2005)

• Accountability and Coercion: Is Justice Blind when It Runs for Office? (With Gregory A. Huber). American Journal of Political Science (2004)

• Quantitative Leverage through Qualitative Knowledge: Augmenting the Statistical Analysis of Complex Causes (With Alastair Smith). Political Analysis (2004)

• Citizen Oversight and the Electoral Incentives of Criminal Prosecutors (With Gregory A. Huber). American Journal of Political Science (2002)

• Stochastic Dependence in Competing Risks. American Journal of Political Science (2002)

• Assessing Partisan Bias in Federal Public Corruption Prosecutions (click "Choose Download Location" to  download the paper). Revisions in progress
  

• The Political Economy of Prosecution (with Gregory Huber). Prepared for the Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences (Planned Publication Date: December 2009)
  

• The Rule of Law, Anonymity, and Elite Incentives. Prepared for the Modeling Law conference at the NYU Law School, October 2005
  

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