Books
(2020). America’s Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State. Cambridge University Press
Winner of the Richard E. Neustadt Book Prize, American Politics Group, Political Studies Association (2022);
Winner of the Education Politics and Policy Best Book Award, American Political Science Association (2021).
Journal articles
(2026). Dilutive Drift: The Racial Impact of Low-Change Redistricting. Perspectives on Politics.
(2025). Rethinking America’s racial policy alliances: beyond 'repair' and 'protect'. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(13), pp. 2586–2594.
(2025). Redrawing Democracy: Quantifying House District Continuity and Change, 1789–2024. Studies in American Political Development, 39(2), pp. 110-124.
(2024). Litigating Policy Drift: Frozen Categories and Thresholds in Court. Perspectives on Politics, 22(4), pp. 1065-1076.
(2024). Electoral Accountability for Rising Tuition in the US: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Observational Data. The Journal of Higher Education, 95(6), 800–823..
(2019). Attenuated Governance: How Policymakers Insulate Private School Choice from Legal Challenge. Policy Studies Journal, 47(2), pp. 237-273.
Winner of the Theodore J. Lowi Prize for the best article published at any time in Policy Studies Journal, American Political Science Association Public Policy Section (2022).
(2019). The Reinvention of Vouchers for a Color-Blind Era: A Racial Orders Account. Studies in American Political Development, 33(2), pp. 234-257.
(2016). The Goldilocks principle: applying the exclusive disjunction to fuzzy sets. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 19(5), pp. 551–574.
(2016). The Six Great Societies. Presidential Studies Quarterly 46(2), pp. 284-305.
(2016). The Exit-Voice Choice: Religious Divides, Public Aid and America’s Private Schools. Politics and Religion, 9(2), pp. 249-270.
(2015). But Not Both: The Exclusive Disjunction in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Quality and Quantity 49(1), pp. 75-92.
Chapters in edited volumes
(2025). Barefaced Politics: Provocative Policy making Strategies. Changing Character of the American Right, Volume II: Ideology, Politics and Policy in the Era of Trump, Editors: Joel Aberbach, Bruce Cain, Desmond King, and Gillian Peele.
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(2022). Federalism. Developments in American Politics 9, Editors: Gillian Peele, Bruce Cain, Jon Herbert and Andrew Wroe.
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(2016). Offers and Throffers: Education Policy under Obama. The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change, Editors: Edward Ashbee and John Dumbrell.
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Edited journal special issues
(2017). Trump’s 100 days: Foreign Policy and Security Implications. Critical Studies on Security, 5(2).
(2016). Symposium: The Politics of Religious Alliances. Politics and Religion, 9(2).