Papers

"The Electoral Connection, Age 40," in Alan Gerber and Eric Schickler (eds.), Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 15-34.

"Explaining Legislative Achievements," in Jeffrey A. Jenkins and Eric M. Patashnik (eds.), Congress and Policy Making in the 21st Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 301-323.

"Politics at the Precipice: Fixing Social Security in 2033," The Forum 13:1 (2015), pp. 3-18.

"Holding Mayors Accountable: New York's Executives from Koch to Bloomberg" (with Nicholas Carnes). American Journal of Political Science 56 (2012), pp. 949-963.

"Foreword to the Second Edition," David R. Mayhew, Congress: The Electoral Connection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004), vii-xii.

"Strategies for Coalition Leaders," in Herbert F. Weisberg, Eric S. Heberlig, and Lisa M. Campoli (eds), Classics in Congressional Politics (New York: Longman, 1999), pp. 437-452.

"The Politics of Reforming Social Security," Political Science Quarterly 113 (1998), pp. 213-240.

"The Political Feasibility of Social Security Reform," in R. Douglas Arnold, Michael Graetz, and Alicia H. Munnell (eds.), Framing the Social Security Debate: Values, Politics, and Economics (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 1998), pp. 389-429.

"Pork Barrel," in Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), volume 3, pp. 1569-1571.

"Can Inattentive Citizens Control The Local Roots of Domestic PolicyTheir Elected Representatives?" in Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer (eds.), Congress Reconsidered, 5th ed. (Washington: CQ Press, 1993), pp. 401-416.

"The Politics of Tax Reform in the United States," in David F. Bradford and Kent E. Calder (eds.), Tax Reform in the United States and Japan: Comparative Political and Economic Perspectives, Monograph Series, Center for International Studies (Princeton: Princeton University, 1991), pp. 13-44.

"Congress and Policy Decisions: Strategic Action and the Public Interest," Legislative Studies Newsletter 11 (April 1988), pp. 123-128.

"Political Control of Administrative Officials," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 3 (Fall 1987), pp. 279-286.

"Overtilled and Undertilled Fields in American Politics," Political Science Quarterly 97 (1982), pp. 91-103.

"Legislators, Bureaucrats, and Locational Decisions," Public Choice 37 (1981), pp. 107-132. Reprinted in Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry Sullivan (eds.), Congress: Structure and Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 523-548.

"The Local Roots of Domestic Policy," in Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein (eds.), The New Congress (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1981), pp. 250-287.