Book
The Party's Primary: Control of Congressional Nominations. 2018. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles
The Party's Primary Preferences: Race, Gender, and Party Support of Congressional Primary Candidates with Neil Visalvanich. 2019. American Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Electoral Competitiveness, Poll Position, and Campaign Negativity. Political Behavior. 2019. Forthcoming
It’s Who’s on the Inside that Counts: Campaign Practitioner Personality and Campaign Electoral Integrity. Political Behavior. 2019. Forthcoming
Personality and Gendered Selection Processes in the Political Pipeline, with Adam M. Dynes, Matthew R. Miles and Jessica R. Preece. Politics & Gender. 2019. Forthcoming
The Personality of the Politically Ambitious, with Adam M. Dynes and Matthew R. Miles. Political Behavior. 2019. Forthcoming
Negative Descriptive Social Norms and Political Action: Nobody's Acting, So You Should, with Emily R. Wyler. 2019. Political Behavior. Forthcoming
On the Limits of Officials' Ability to Change Citizens' Priorities: A Field Experiment in Local Politics, with Daniel M. Butler. 2018. American Political Science Review 112(4):860-873
When Your Group Fails: The Effect of Race-Based Performance Signals on Citizen Voice and Exit with with John B. Holbein. 2018 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 29(2):268-286
Principled Moderation: Understanding Parties' Support of Moderate Candidates. 2018. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 43(2):343-369.
The Differential Effects of Stress on Voter Turnout, with Jaime E. Settle. 2017. Political Psychology 38(3): 533-550
Media Framing and Partisan Identity: The Case of Immigration Coverage and White Macropartisanship, with Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal. 2017. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 2(1):5-34 (Coverage: Washington Post)
Teaching Voters New Tricks: The Effect of Partisan Absentee Vote-By-Mail GOTV Efforts. 2016. Research & Politics 4(1)
Veto Rhetoric and Legislative Riders, with Samuel Kernell. 2016. American Journal of Political Science 60(4):845-859 (Coverage: LSE's USApp Blog)
Party Control of Party Primaries: Party Influence in Nominations for the U.S. Senate. 2016. Journal of Politics 78(1):75-87 (Coverage Washington Post, BloombergView, and Iowa Public Radio)
Representational Inconsistency: Presentation of Self and Explanations of Washington Activity in Campaign Mail and Franked Mail, with J. Quin Monson. 2016. Congress & the Presidency 43(2):206-226
When to Attack: The Trajectory of Congressional Campaign Negativity, with Kelly R. Oeltjenbruns (Cornell College undergraduate). 2016. American Politics Research 44(2):222-246 Coverage: LSE's USApp Blog)
Call to (In)Action: The Effects of Racial Priming on Grassroots Mobilization, with Neil Visalvanich. 2015. Political Behavior 37(4):911-932 (Coverage: LSE's USApp Blog)
Media Coverage of Immigration and White Partisanship, with Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal. 2015. In White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and the Political Transformation of America. Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Campaign Targets and Messages in Campaign Fundraising, with J. Quin Monson. 2014. Political Behavior 36(2):359-376
Public and Partisan Opinions of the Speaker of the House. 2014. Congress & the Presidency 41(1):107-127 (Coverage: Washington Post)
Looking Beyond the Voting Constituency: A Study of Campaign Donation Solicitations in the 2008 Presidential Primary and General Election), 2011. Journal of Political Marketing 10(1): 27-42
Working Papers
Are Minority Candidates Penalized by Party Politics? Race, Gender, and Access to Party Support and Donor Networks with Bernard Fraga.
Political Ambition and Constituent Service: Does Ambition Influence How Local Officials Respond to Electoral and Non-Electoral Service Requests? with Adam M. Dynes and Matthew R. Miles.