Books

1. The Economic Vote: How Political and Economic Institutions Condition Election Results. 2008 Cambridge University Press. (with Raymond Duch), winner of the Gregory M. Luebbert award for the best book in comparative politics in 2007 or 2008.

Articles

1. “The Conditional Impact of Incumbency on Government Formation.” forthcoming, American Political Science Review (2010, with Lanny Martin).
2. “Context and Economic Expectations: When Do Voters Get it Right?”  forthcoming  British Journal of Political Science (with Raymond Duch).
3. “The Global Economy, Competency, and the Economic Vote.”   Journal of Politics (January, 2010) 72(1): 1-19  (with Raymond Duch).
4. “Accessing the Magnitude of the Economic Vote over Time and Across Nations.” 2006. Electoral Studies Vol. 25, no. 3, 528-47 (with Raymond Duch).
5. “Brain Activity in the Play of Dominant and Mixed Strategy Games” 2006. Political Psychology (with Rick Wilson and Geoffrey Potts), Vol. 27, no 3 pp. 459-478.
6. “Context and the Economic Vote: A Multi-Level Analysis.” Political Analysis. 2005. Vol. 13, no. 4, 2005, pp. 387-409. (with Raymond Duch)
7. “The Economy as Context: Indirect Links between the Economy and Voters.” 2003 In Han Dorussen, ed., The Changing Economic Voter. London: Routledge.
8. “The Cost of Ruling, Cabinet Duration, and the “Median Gap Model” Public Choice. 2002.
9. “The Economy and Policy Preference: A Fundamental Dynamic of Democratic Politics.” 2001. American Journal of Political Science. Vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 620-633
10. “Cabinet Formation in Parliamentary Democracies.” 2001. American Journal of Political Science. Vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 33-50. (with Lanny Martin)  Replication Data
11. “Cabinet Terminations and Critical Events.”  American Political Science Review. Vol. 94, no. 3. September 2000, pp. 627-640.  (with Daniel Diermeier)
12. “Do campaigns Matter?  Testing for Cross-National Effects.” British Journal of Political Science. Vol. 30, April, 2000 , pp. 217-235. (with Lynn Vavreck)
13. “Cabinet Survival and Competing Risks.” American Journal of Political Science. vol.43 , no. 4 , October 1999, pp. 1051-1068. (with Daniel Diermeier)   Replication Data
14. “Defense Expenditures and Economic Growth In Israel: The Indirect Link.” Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 33, no. 3, 1996, pp. 341-353. (with Alex Mintz, Michael Ward, and Jordin Cohen)
15. “Theories of Budgetary Tradeoffs.” Public Budgeting and Financial Management. 1995 (with Alex Mintz).
16. “Defense Expenditures, Economic Growth, and the ‘Peace Dividend’: A Longitudinal Analysis of 103 Countries.”  Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 39, No. 2, 1995, pp. 283-309 (with Alex Mintz).
17. “Armament and Development: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Military Spending on Economic Growth in Developing Countries.” in Chatterji, Jager, and Rima (eds.) The Economics of International Security: Essays in Honor of Jan Tinbergen, London: Palgrave. 1994 (with Alex Mintz).

Working Papers

1. “Executive Selection and Political Knowledge” being revised for resubmission to American Political Science Review (2010, with Greg Vonnamme).
2. “A Solution to the Selection Problem in Models of Government Survival.” (with Lanny Martin and Daina Chiba)
3. “Perceptions of Partisan Ideologies: The Effect of Coalition Participation” (with David Fortunato)
4. “Clarity about Clarity: Sorting through Competing Explanations for the Clarity of Responsibility Hypothesis” (With Tiffany Barnes and Raymond Duch)
5. “Institutionalization, New Concept and Methods” (with Keith Hamm, Andrew Spieglman, and Ronald Hedlund)
6. “The Meaning and Use of Subjective Perceptions in Models of Economic Voting” (with Raymond Duch)
7. “Explaining Variation in Coalition Agreements”(with Jason Eichorst and Lanny Martin)
8. “What Do Voters Know about Cabinet Formation?” (with Andrew Spiegleman)
9. “The Dynamics of Information Processing and Candidate Evaluation: A Web-based Experimental Approach” (with Beth Miller)
10. “Starting with Recall: Examining the Relationship between Memory and Processing of Campaign Information” (with Beth Miller)
11. “The Dynamics of Economic Performance and Policy Mood.” (with Simon Jackman).
12. “The Economy and Strategic Communication in Electoral Campaigns.” (with Guy Whitten)